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> It stands to reason that... No, it doesn't! The scale of the universe is huge, as in HUGE! There is simply no way a microscopic bug like us can influence any

by pif 3y ago

> It stands to reason that... No, it doesn't! The scale of the universe is huge, as in HUGE! There is simply no way a microscopic bug like us can influence anything at an inter-stellar distance.

A_D_E_P_T 3y ago
Even if we never leave our system, it's at least possible that we could build a Dyson Swarm or something similar around our own Sun, which would make it look like a strangely -- possibly unnaturally -- occluded star to distant observers. We've spotted one of those already, and we still don't know exactly what we're looking at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star