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Planetary engineering and star-scale structures.
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Out of the Cradle
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Cosmic Geographic
Beyond the Solar System: civilizations, structures and threats on a cosmic scale.
Cosmic Disasters
Threats that grow from planets to the cosmos.
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What Could Humans Build in 2000 Years?
Dyson power stations and a galactic brain.
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2026-09-26
Engineering Cybernetics of the Aerostat City
A design canon for suspending a human city in the atmosphere of a gaseous world: buoyancy, structure, life support, and control.
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Terraforming Mars: Air, Magnetic Shields and Orbital Mirrors
A quantitative design study of Mars terraforming: atmosphere inventories, oxygen production, orbital-mirror power, magnetic shielding and the tests that must precede planetary-scale construction.
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Helium-3 Mining at Jupiter: The Fuel Network Behind The Gold Rush
An engineering audit of Jovian helium-3: fusion yield, isotope abundance, collector throughput, separation, gravity-well transport and waste heat, with explicit assumptions and worked budgets.
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Scienshell is an independent film studio creating cinematic science fiction in documentary form. Through imagined worlds and the lives within them, we explore how civilizations beyond Earth might take shape.
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