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Old 09-01-2022, 01:49 PM   #837 (permalink)
redpoint5
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
At our present stage of awareness the only way we can concieve is to completely surround the Sun.

There has to be a more subtle way.
A star going dark may be evidence of a civilization achieving type II.

It would still be scary to achieve type I. I mean, we would be engineering things like rivers at that point. They wouldn't flow unless we wanted them to, and at a rate we determine. There would be no "nature", but instead the whole earth would be a zoo.
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