What If We Could Build a Mega-Computer in Space?

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Do you ever question the nature of your reality? Are you real? Or are you a product of some complex computer simulation? What I'm about to tell you might change the way you perceive the world. And it all starts with a cosmic megastructure the size of our Solar System.

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