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Hmm yes, but what exactly is a neighbourhood in this context? Can an ant comprehend our neighbourhoods? Can it perceive or even conceive of them? It may be that
by desertraven 4y ago
Hmm yes, but what exactly is a neighbourhood in this context? Can an ant comprehend our neighbourhoods? Can it perceive or even conceive of them? It may be that we are looking in the wrong place entirely. What does another million years in the evolution of intelligence yield? What of the physics? Perhaps Dyson Structures are just what our limited imaginations can conjure of an advanced civilisation.
It's all a bit airy-fairy I know, but having come such a long way in a mere thousand years - I feel like the ideas we have of super-intelligent beings may be primitive.
- nootropicat 4y agoWe don't need to know precisely into what, just that it's extremely unlikely nothing would be visible. All that energy radiated by stars into the void is wasted from the perspective of an advanced civilization.
- desertraven 4y agoAre we not able to produce vast amounts of terrestrial energy without the sun (eg. nuclear)? I'd imagine a sufficiently advanced civilisation has solved the issue of energy, such that they have an abundance without creating giant structures around stars which would alert even the most primitive of civilisations (us) to their presence. Further, the dyson sphere concept stemmed from sci-fi, or rather the human imagination. It seems logical to us that an advanced civilisation would build structures around stars to harvest their energy, but our logic is limited to the bounds of a few kilograms of grey, wrinkled biological matter. The dog cannot understand the internal combustion engine. Alexander the Great wasn't thinking about the internet, or genetic engineering. We're quite sure of ourselves, and of what an advanced civilisation ought to be doing, and I think this is a mistake.