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

也许在离太阳系更近地方建一个超级建筑更好。

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

一旦这个结构建成，不论他们怎么看，可被用来改造他们系能量几乎就是无限了。

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

但当科学家们仔细观测时，他们并没有发现被采集过、弃结构或者史诗般际战争痕迹。

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

芝加哥不是建造这样一建筑理想场所。

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

对于建筑居民来说， 它永远是白天。

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

其中一个更有趣猜测理论是，我们正见证着一个大外结构建造——戴森球。

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

因为结构会变得如此大，它会破坏任何已知分子键。

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

1975 年，NASA 在斯坦福大学开展一项夏季研究提出了另一个创新结构。

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

2006 年，卡尔帕纳一号轨道定居点被提议作为对 1970 年代结构改进。

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.

它们可能已经建成了他们第一批结构，可能正处于在之间运输物体，并无意或有意地向太空传输大量信息过程中。

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.

人类可以设计一个类似于虚构戴森球结构，它可以直接捕获太阳能量并将我们文明弹射到一个新技术时代。

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.

这拥有 57 年历史建筑不仅在其一生中取得了许多令人难以置信科学发现，而且还象征着人类对我们在宇宙中地位兴趣和好奇心。