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Megascale Engineering

Also, referred to as megatechnology. Megascale engineering uses energies, scales or methods (including self-replicating nanotechnology and other more advanced techniques) to build immense structures on an asteroidal, planetary, or even stellar scale.

Archailect Architecture
Banks Orbitals
Beamrider Network
Beanstalks (see also Early Space Elevators)
Bishop Rings
Civilization Ships
Dyson Trees
Dyson Spheres
Eders (also variously known as Ederbubbles, Edercolonies, Ederspheres, Ederhabitats, or Bubbleworlds.)
The Lagrange Magshield - Interplanetary Age concept, which had developed from research into magsails and Ram-assisted magscoops.
Lofstrom loops
Matrioshka Brain
Matrioshka Hypernode
Megascale Music
Niven Clouds aka Smoke Rings
Ribbonworlds
Space Fountains and Orbital Rings
Space Habitats - rotating space habitats from Stanford Tori to McKendree Cylinders
Space Habitat Design - general notes on the design of rotating space habitats
Stellar Husbandry
Supramundane Worlds
Symmes' Worlds
Terraforming
Tipler cylinders
Weylforges
World Ships
Worldhouse Roofs
Wormholes

Megascale Engineering A-Z

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