Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What does it take to turn the Sun into a power grid? Discover the step-by-step path from asteroid mining to a star-spanning megastructure.

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Building a Dyson Swarm... from Scratch
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics: Bryan Versteeg, Jeremy Jozwik, Ken York Sergio Botero
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Chapters
0:00 Intro What Is a Dyson Swarm?
5:49 Gathering the Materials
9:40 Proto-Swarm: Our First Steps
13:05 Mining the Solar System
14:33 Beyond Mercury: The True Scale of the Swarm
19:10 Ghosts of Friendship Past
20:34 Building Habitats: How Much Mass Do We Really Need?
27:42 The Long Dawn of a Stellar Civilization