[ben_w]

Even then, there are two issues:

1. disassembling the stars to make them live a thousand times longer

2. it only takes one expansionist civilisation seeking interstellar exponential growth — even if 99.9% of civilisations are quiet, that's just 3 digits of the 22-digit number of stars in the observable universe.

[shuger]

> disassembling the stars to make them live a thousand times longer

Why would they do that when there are insane amounts of start with billions of years of life ahead of them. What purpose would that serve at this point in time?

[ben_w]

Even though the numbers are too big for humans to feel them out, the bigger one is bigger than the smaller one.

[adastra22]

Because trillions is bigger than billions.