And one of the more interesting theories was that we were witnessing the construction of a giant alien megastructure called a Dyson sphere.

其中个更有趣的猜测理论是，我正见证着个巨大的外星巨型结构的建造——戴森球。

But when scientists looked, they didn't find remnants of harvested stars, decaying megastructures or scars of great interstellar wars.

但当科学家仔细观测时，并没有发现被采集过的恒星、废弃的巨型结构或者史诗般的星际战争的痕迹。

Once this megastructure is finished, energy has become practically unlimited for molding the home system however they see fit.

旦这个巨型结构建成，不论么看，可被用来改造的恒星系的能量几乎就是无限的了。

Maybe a better idea would be to build a megastructure somewhere closer to the Solar System.

也许在离太系更近的地方建个超级建筑更好。

They may have finished their first megastructures, and they might be in the process of moving staff between stars, transmitting enormous amounts of information into space, by accident, or on purpose.

它可能已经建成了的巨型结构，可能正处于在恒星之间运输物体，并无意或有意地向太空传输大量信息的过程中。

Another innovative megastructure was proposed  in 1975 by a NASA Summer Study at Stanford University.

1975 年，NASA 在斯坦福大学开展的项夏季研究提出了另个创新的巨型结构。

With all these technologies in place, our megastructures can stay standing and stable.

有了这些技术的支持，我的超高层建筑就能稳稳当当地矗立不倒了。

Because the megastructure would turn out so enormous, it would break any known molecular bonds.

因为巨型结构会变得如此巨大，它会破坏任何已知的分子键。

Chicago is not the ideal place to build a megastructure like this one.

芝加哥不是建造这样座巨型建筑的理想场所。

For him, natural cavities in rock appear more like ancient megastructures.

对而言，岩石中的天然空洞更像是古代的巨型建筑结构。

It's high density, it's self-sustaining all inside the single megastructure, but it's the dystopian version.

它高密度， 完全在单巨型结构内自给自足，但这是反乌托邦版本。

This 57-year-old megastructure not only made many incredible scientific discoveries over its lifetime, it was also an emblem of humanity's interest and curiosity about our place in the universe.

这栋57年的巨型建筑在其生中不仅做出了许多惊人的科学发现，它还是人类对我在这个宇宙中的位置感兴趣和好奇的象征。

There's been a couple papers written about the possibility of these Clark belts, densely-occupied Clark belts being a megastructure.

已经有几篇论文讨论过这些克拉克带的可能性，密集分布的克拉克带被认为是种巨型结构。

For the inhabitants of the megastructure, it would always be daytime.

对于巨型建筑的居民来说， 它永远是白天。

How many people are looking for megastructures now?

- 现在有多少人在寻找巨型结构？

It looks like it came straight out of some dystopian sci fi novel, a giant megastructure part architecture, part living organism.

它看起来仿佛直接从某部反乌托邦科幻小说中走出来，个巨大的超级结构体， 既是建筑，又是生命体。

In 2006, the Kalpana One Orbital Settlement  was proposed as an improvement upon the megastructures from the 1970s.

2006 年，卡尔帕纳号轨道定居点被提议作为对 1970 年代巨型结构的改进。

What other megastructures do you think that could be?

你认为还可能有哪些巨型结构？

Humans may design a stellar megastructure, similar to the fictional Dyson Sphere, that directly captures the Sun's energy and slingshots our civilization  into a new technological age.

人类可以设计个类似于虚构的戴森球的巨型恒星结构，它可以直接捕获太的能量并将我的文明弹射到个新的技术时代。

It's an entire city contained in a single megastructure that's supposed to be 500 meters tall.

这是个完全包含在单个超高层建筑内的城市，该建筑预计高度为500米。