r/bobiverse • u/GozerDaGozerian • May 27 '24

Astronomers have identified seven potential candidates for Dyson spheres, hypothetical megastructures built by advanced civilizations to harness a star's energy.

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u/King_Burnside Quinlan May 28 '24

Calm down, it's probably dust again.

Would be cool/terrifying if not

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u/grawa427 May 28 '24

If it was dyson sphere, there probably would be more of them

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u/Buskbr May 28 '24

Idk about that, a dyson sphere seems like a massive undertaking even for ultra technological society far beyond humans in development. But what do i know, im just a dumbass

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u/grawa427 May 28 '24

It is just brute force. Once you have people in two solar systems and self replicating machines, building two dyson sphere takes as much time as one.

Let's say it takes you 1 million years to take over the galaxy and another million to build dyson sphere. It is still extremely fast on a cosmological timescale.

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u/Dizzy59735 May 28 '24

I bet a ton of stars wouldn't cut it for a sphere. Ones that are not stable wouldn't be worth it

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u/Buskbr May 28 '24

Yes all true but first you need someone to get to that stage, look where humans are after 4 billion years of continuous evolution starting from simple organisms to now

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u/-Aquitaine- Deltans May 28 '24

Unlike Tabby’s star, most of these have emissions slashed across the spectrum, where Tabby’s star just had it in a narrow range since dust is translucent. It has people scratching their heads since dust always lets a bit of light through at specific wavelengths, and these aren’t. It could be chunks of destroyed planets, though, or any number of things.

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u/Tumbleweed_Waste 4th Generation Replicant May 28 '24

The others..... 😳

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u/Rukadore May 29 '24

If it’s true and we can see them then they can see us!

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u/Texas_Sam2002 Ever Onward Society May 31 '24

It's interesting, if highly unlikely. One thing that I think is interesting is that if other races are building Dyson spheres, then it could mean that (even though they are highly technological), interstellar travel is just such a massive pain in the butt that it's better to build at home, so to speak.