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Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of pl...
Kurzgesagt didn't invent the concept of disassembling Mercury to build a Dyson swarm. Stuart Armstrong proposed it in a lecture in 2012[0].
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https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=3jwmhoB7zx6rclhb
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Pretty sure the idea predates that lecture, it appears in Charles Stross' novel Accelerando from 2005 (which is based on short stories that were published years earlier).
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[0]: https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=3jwmhoB7zx6rclhb