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by heavyset_go
1504 days ago
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The Dyson sphere hypothesis always bothered me because it rests on a lot of assumptions, most of them are anthropomorphic in nature, unless, of course, the hypothesis is only meant to recognize a very specific, human-like civilizations with human-like motivations and needs. Who is to say that alien life would form human-like civilizations at all? Or that Dyson spheres are the "obvious" next steps for even our own civilization? Or that Dyson spheres would even suit the use cases of alien, or human, civilizations? |
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Life seems way more likely to evolve in a gravity well. That creates certain constraints. Likewise, it's hard to imagine how life would become a spacefaring species without some form of social organization (ie they'd need to be social creatures).
And thing slike generating and using energy and creating living area also seem to be quite fundamental.
An alternative is for a meatbag civilization to go virtual. That's possible of course but computing power is a function of energy expenditure so you're kind of back where you started.