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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by oska on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:59PM (#23923170)
I agree. Saying that a Dyson Sphere is something that an 'extremely advanced civilization would build' presumes that we can project the course of civilization. Seems presumptuous and short sighted to me.
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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by Gibbon1 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:17PM (#23923271)
Yeah a Dyson Sphere contains the presumption that an advanced alien civilization's population would grow exponentially like earths population did in the 20th century.

I don't know how you square a utterly stupid idea like exponential population growth with the word advanced in advanced civilization. Instead this sounds like blinkered mid twentieth century thinking. Or the old science fiction trope of seeing the future as like the present but more of it.

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