• HarryLime [any]
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    5 months ago

    The Dyson Sphere thing might be real, though it's far from confirmed.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        5 months ago

        No they found like fifty weird stars or something

        • MF_COOM [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          The idea that hyper sophisticated alien societies will all naturally build a fantastically complex object that a futurist ape dreamed up before our planet had even travelled to the moon is the height of hubris.

          • jackmarxist [any]
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            5 months ago

            A dyson swarm can be possible theoretically and a civilisation can potentially build a swarm with enough technological prowess. It's just Solar Energy so it's likely that other civilisations also have same ideas as humans when it comes to this.

            Although the most likely explanation is still that it's just dust.

            • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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              5 months ago

              A star with orbiting solar panels is an idea so poisoned by the current level of human technological development.

              Like trying to detect radio emissions to find extraterrestrial life.

            • MF_COOM [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              We have literally no idea what an alien society is likely to do.

              Just because the dominant ideology of Dyson's time was a valorization of unquenchable resource extraction doesn't mean it's at all logical to project that value structure even on different human societies, much less literally alien ones.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          5 months ago

          Space communists please liberate us.

          • HarryLime [any]
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            5 months ago

            you guys will look so stupid if it turns out they're dyson spheres

            • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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              5 months ago

              If alien civilizations capable of building megastructures are discovered shortly, the last thing I'm gonna be worried about is looking stupid for doubting their discovery as reported in sensationalist media lol

              edit: that said, sicko-wistful

            • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              aliens would never use such an overpriced vacuum brand they're probably Hoover spheres