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href="/wiki/Exploratory_engineering" title="Exploratory engineering">exploratory engineering</a> concerned with the construction of structures on an enormous scale.<sup id="cite_ref-WP-20201231_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP-20201231-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Typically these structures are at least 1,000 km (620 mi) in length—in other words, at least one <a href="/wiki/Megameter" class="mw-redirect" title="Megameter">megameter</a>, hence the name. Such large-scale structures are termed <a href="/wiki/Megastructure" title="Megastructure">megastructures</a>. </p><p>In addition to large-scale structures, megascale engineering is also defined as including the transformation of entire planets into a <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a>-habitable environment, a process known as <a href="/wiki/Terraforming" title="Terraforming">terraforming</a> or <a href="/wiki/Planetary_engineering" title="Planetary engineering">planetary engineering</a>. This might also include transformation of the surface conditions, changes in the planetary orbit, and structures in orbit intended to modify the energy balance. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Astroengineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Astroengineering">Astroengineering</a> is the extension of <i>megascale engineering</i> to megastructures on a <a href="/wiki/Star" title="Star">stellar</a> scale or larger,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as <a href="/wiki/Dyson_sphere" title="Dyson sphere">Dyson spheres</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ringworld" title="Ringworld">Ringworlds</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alderson_disk" title="Alderson disk">Alderson disks</a>. </p><p>Several megascale structure concepts such as <a href="/wiki/Dyson_sphere" title="Dyson sphere">Dyson spheres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dyson_swarm" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyson swarm">Dyson swarms</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matrioshka_brain" title="Matrioshka brain">Matrioshka brains</a> would likely be built upon <a href="/wiki/Space-based_solar_power" title="Space-based solar power">space-based solar power satellites</a>. Other planetary engineering or interstellar transportation concepts would likely require space-based solar power satellites and the accompanying space logistics infrastructure for their power or construction. </p><p>Megascale engineering often plays a major part in the plot of <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> movies and books. The micro-gravity environment of <a href="/wiki/Outer_space" title="Outer space">outer space</a> provides several potential benefits for the engineering of these structures. These include minimizing the loads on the structure, the availability of large quantities of raw materials in the form of <a href="/wiki/Asteroid" title="Asteroid">asteroids</a>, and an ample supply of energy from the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a>. The capabilities to employ these advantages are not yet available, however, so they provide material for <a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes" title="List of science fiction themes">science fiction themes</a>. </p><p>Quite a few megastructures have been designed on paper as exploratory engineering. However, the list of existing and planned megastructures is complicated by the ambiguity in classifying what exactly constitutes a megastructure. By strict definition, no megastructures currently exist (with the <a href="/wiki/Space_elevator" title="Space elevator">space elevator</a> being the only such project under serious consideration). By more lenient definitions, the <a href="/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China" title="Great Wall of China">Great Wall of China</a> (6.7 Mm or 4,200 mi) counts as a megastructure. </p><p>A more complete list of conceptual and existing megastructures, along with a discussion of megastructure criteria, is found under <a href="/wiki/Megastructure" title="Megastructure">megastructure</a>. </p><p>Of all the proposed megastructures, only the <a href="/wiki/Orbital_ring" title="Orbital ring">orbital elevator</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Keith_Lofstrom" title="Keith Lofstrom">Lofstrom</a> <a href="/wiki/Launch_loop" title="Launch loop">launch loop</a>, and Martian or <a href="/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator" title="Lunar space elevator">lunar space elevator</a> concepts could be built using conventional <a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineering</a> techniques, and are within the grasp of current <a href="/wiki/Material_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Material science">material science</a>. <a href="/wiki/Carbon_nanotubes" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon nanotubes">Carbon nanotubes</a> may have the requisite <a href="/wiki/Tensile_strength" class="mw-redirect" title="Tensile strength">tensile strength</a> for the more technologically challenging Earth-based <a href="/wiki/Space_elevator" title="Space elevator">space elevator</a>, but creation of nanotubes of the required length is a laboratory exercise, and adequate cable-scale technology has not yet been shown at all. </p><p>The assembly of structures <i>more</i> massive than a space elevator would likely involve a combination of new engineering techniques, new materials, and new <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technologies</a>. Such massive construction projects might require the use of <a href="/wiki/Self-replicating_machine" title="Self-replicating machine">self-replicating machines</a> to provide a suitably large "construction crew". The use of <a href="/wiki/Nanotechnology" title="Nanotechnology">nanotechnology</a> might provide both the self-replicating assemblers, and the <a href="/wiki/Molecular_manufacturing" class="mw-redirect" title="Molecular manufacturing">specialized materials</a> needed for such a project. 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