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I am wondering which visible cosmic events are actually some alien constructs.
by empiricus 2y ago
I am wondering which visible cosmic events are actually some alien constructs.
- m463 2y agoor ... destructs
- GJim 2y agoArthur C Clarke once suggested some supernova may be industrial accidents. It's a strangely romantic idea and one that is Clarke through and through!
- tristramb 2y agoIn Alastair Reynolds' "House of Suns", the Gentian Line of spacefarers construct "stardams" around stars to prevent their supernova outbursts from harming nearby civilizations.
- sandworm101 2y agoGiven the amount of empty space out there, the amount of black between stars, it would seem more efficient to create shields around the civilizations than around the stars themselves.
- restalis 2y ago"Efficient" in the economical sense, that is. Unless, the civilization covers a very wide area (basically everywhere in there, for light years around the impending supernova) and the protection amounted for each and every civilization zone would surpass the containment circle/cylinder/sphere around the star. In such case the sensible solution becomes to just recognize the area that can not be saved (no mater what) due to its proximity to the star and the limits of walling withstanding capacity, evacuate that, and set the containment all around the future explosion as close as possible instead.
- canadianfella 2y ago[dead]
- woolcap 2y agoBrings new meaning and scale to the idea of a RUD.
- dotancohen 2y agoBridges nicely with the Asimov story of a civilization that prepares for its supernova by constructing a monument to survive it.
- acheron 2y agoThat was a Clarke story too, at least the one I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story) I don't remember an Asimov one, but maybe he did one too; he wrote a whole lot of stories and I certainly haven't read all of them.
- dotancohen 2y agoYes, that's the story. I probably read it three or four decades ago, along with others by those two authors and Heinlein as well. Easily confused, as I now live with a dog named Asimov!
- svieira 2y agoThis kind of "things we think are natural are actually the product of intelligences much larger than we currently can imagine" is all throughout John C. Wright's "Count to the Eschaton" sequence as well.