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的地方一个超级筑更好。

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

一旦这个结构成，不论怎么看，可被用来改造的恒星系的能量几乎就是无限的了。

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

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

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

芝加哥不是造这样一座筑的理想场所。

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

其中一个更有趣的猜测理论是，我正见证着一个大的外星结构的造——戴森球。

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

对于筑的居民来说， 它永远是白天。

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，它会破坏任何已知的分子键。

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

1975 年，NASA 在斯坦福大学开展的一项夏季研究提出了另一个创新的结构。

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 年代结构的改进。

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.

它可能已经成了的第一批结构，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。

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的戴森球的恒星结构，它可以直接捕获太阳的能量并将我的文明弹射到一个新的技术代。

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.

这座拥有 57 年历史的筑不仅在其一生中取得了许多令人难以置信的科学发现，而且还象征着人类对我在宇宙中的地位的兴趣和好奇心。