In this tutorial, we will teach you how to take over the universe in three easy steps. We will use amounts of energy and resources that are small compared to what is at our disposal in the Solar System. Watch this video, and you’re good to begin.

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Eternity in six hours: intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox, by Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong:
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/up...

NASA's self-replicating lunar factory design:

- https://space.nss.org/wp-content/uplo...

- http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Growing...

Kinematic self-replicating machines, by Freitas and Merkle: https://www.amazon.com/Kinematic-Self...

The quote at 15:11 is almost an actual quote from the paper!

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Chapters:

0:00 - The masterplan
1:46 - Exploratory engineering and assumptions
2:56 - Design of the Dyson swarm
6:04 - Disassembling Mercury
9:23 - Design of the probes
13:24 - The launch phase
15:05 - After the universe, the galaxy
16:15 - Final Considerations