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Celestial Armamentarium
A small crystal planetarium, in which the stars and planets surrounding Aerlith are seen. (Read the full article)
| " If 100% of main sequence bmeeocs white dwarf(visible) then there is no intelligent life in the galaxy. No, if If 100% of main sequence bmeeocs white dwarf(visible) then there is no intelligent life that builds Dyson spheres in the galaxy. Not the same thing.I hate to be a buzzkill, but the notion that intelligent, tool-using life will invariably construct Dyson spheres is nonsense. There might be many reasons that sapient life does not do so, such as:- Sapient life arises on its planet too late in the star's lifetime to reach the point where it has the technology to do so.- Sapient life arises, then goes extinct (through natural or self-inflicted means) before it has the opportunity to build such a structure.- There are engineering or physical constraints on the creation of such a structure which we are not yet aware of, since we lack the ability to create such large macroengineering structures. The notion that we would be able to understand the engineering requirements of a Dyson sphere are about as likely as the notion that a Roman Centurion would be able to understand the engineering requirements of a space elevator. The fact that we can imagine it doesn't necessarily mean that we understand how likely it is that such a thing can be built.- A sapient, tool-using, macroscale-engineering civilization chooses, for whatever reason, not to do so. This might be because it limits its own energy consumption, or because it turns instead to other macroengineering projects, or even because it reaches some point at which it is not dependent on its star at all." (AXKSMFclhc 10/28/2012 7:26:39 AM ) |
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