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Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox by somenameforme on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:05PM (#33409932)
So far as we can currently understand, it seems that about 96% of the matter-energy of the universe is stuff that we cannot see, detect, or explain. Dark matter/energy.

There's more than enough room for fanciful explanations.

Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox by db48x on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:28PM (#33411431)
Except that dark matter doesn't even interact with itself. Particles of dark matter just pass right through each other rather than clumping together to form complex molecules, rocks, planets, etc.
Re:Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox by ben_w on Monday October 31, 2022 @03:41PM (#33411664)
A Dyson swarm emits approximately same energy as its host star, just in infrared. Dark Matter could, I guess, be Matryoshka brains organised carefully to not hit each other by their keepers, so long as they are also actively "gardening" what we can see so they never ever get Dyson-d.