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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Please make contact with China and NOT america.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

would be a big prank to have to learn Mandarin to speak to Aliens

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 months ago

The trisolarairians are in contact with the CPC

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Three Body Problem is so peak. The scale feels so immense even though the story takes place between 3 star systems. Peak Cosmic Horror imo.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

2/3 bodies it's okay

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

Artificial sun

:pain: please stop

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The Dyson sphere thing is probably just some weird fucking cloud in the way that's acting as a magnifying glass or some kind of interference

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 months ago
[-] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Communist aliens on hexbear are legally required to tell us you exist

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Imagine the poor guy who has to explain this website to his alien group of scientists.

"Sir, these earthlings get their laughs by calling for others to read this thing called "theory", yet they never seem to get around to reading it themselves. They also get their laughs by spamming this picture of a pink earthling that defecated on its enlarged gonads."

[-] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

surely, they mean a dyson swarm

[-] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago

I have discharge too maybe some Chinese Scientists investigate me

[-] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Fusion powered planetary defense craft of the PLA (Space Command) will be all that stands in the way of an invasion of Von Neuman machines from the nearby Dyson Swarm system.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnA2FdDYfk

skip to 5:51

Some commentary: Would a dyson sphere really appear "dark" and only be visible in infrared? Wouldn't a civilization manipulating a dyson sphere still want to be able to see what they're doing outside of the sphere? Wouldn't they have tons of light pollution from their advanced civilization existing around their dyson sphere? Unless they've somehow evolved past the need to see things, it seems like a dyson sphere is an unlikely explanation for these 7 stars

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

We don't know if extraterrestrial life would need light to see. Using sonar and producers that get energy from volcanic vents is 100% possible.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

That's true, space could be ruled by giant bats

[-] Mjpasta710@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

How much light would individual ships need? Do you expect light sources of living beings near the star would need to shine at stellar brightness to see?

Why would you expect (an advanced civilization) would need enough light near that star- to be visible outside of the solar system?

Additionally, their work light outside of their sphere (assuming they wanted to go outside of the sphere), would be directional.

It would need to be immensely bright to reflect or pointed directly at us.

We don't know what they are, a lack of other additional light is odd. I want to know more about them.

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

The Dyson Sphere thing might be real, though it's far from confirmed.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 28 points 4 months ago

Like basically anything might be real

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

No they found like fifty weird stars or something

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

The idea that hyper sophisticated alien societies will all naturally build a fantastically complex object that a futurist ape dreamed up before our planet had even travelled to the moon is the height of hubris.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

A dyson swarm can be possible theoretically and a civilisation can potentially build a swarm with enough technological prowess. It's just Solar Energy so it's likely that other civilisations also have same ideas as humans when it comes to this.

Although the most likely explanation is still that it's just dust.

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

A star with orbiting solar panels is an idea so poisoned by the current level of human technological development.

Like trying to detect radio emissions to find extraterrestrial life.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

We have literally no idea what an alien society is likely to do.

Just because the dominant ideology of Dyson's time was a valorization of unquenchable resource extraction doesn't mean it's at all logical to project that value structure even on different human societies, much less literally alien ones.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Space communists please liberate us.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

Turns out those 50 weird stars are Red stars fidel-salute

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

I firmly believe capitalism is incapable of creating Dyson Spheres.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 months ago

Imagine 50 different companies trying to build their own section and competing to cut costs as much as possible, it could never work.

[-] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Then they crash into each other and inexplicably fall down on Earth, crushing poor neighbourhoods while everybody escapes blame

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

were the yankees looking at their stupid fuckin flag or something

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

you guys will look so stupid if it turns out they're dyson spheres

[-] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If alien civilizations capable of building megastructures are discovered shortly, the last thing I'm gonna be worried about is looking stupid for doubting their discovery as reported in sensationalist media lol

edit: that said, sicko-wistful

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

please let me know if this happens so I can cancel my plans

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

aliens would never use such an overpriced vacuum brand they're probably Hoover spheres

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

They won't tho

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Or we found a new, weirder star type

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

The Ancient Aliens team is behind Western Media. It explains the regularly built-in racism, at least.

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

The Dyson sphere isn't totally sensationalist. There isn't really an explanation for why those 60 stars are so much hotter than they should be and it's going to be interesting to see what it is.

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