The Plan to Destroy Mercury

And a good chunk of the rest of our solar system, too.

Conceptual image of a Dyson Sphere enveloping a star.

The idea of a Dyson sphere is a fascinating one. It’s a megastructure built around a star that would be capable of harvesting the star’s entire energy output. This sort of radiation-absorbing shell would provide enormous amounts of energy to a more advanced civilization. It was named after the astrophysicist Freeman Dyson who…