[plain talk]

Hooper notes that such a scenario is still very far off—on the order of 100 billion years from now. But he also notes that if aliens were grabbing stars from one galaxy and transporting them back to another, the time for each trip would be on the order of billions of years. Thus, they would have to be doing it now, before they run out of time.

The article says that galaxies are moving apart but stars within the galaxies are staying together due to gravity. At least that is how I read it. There are 250 billion stars in the Milky Way. This articles says aliens would be 'fetching' stars in nearby galaxies before they run out of time. Any civilization advanced enough to do that could survive quite well by harvesting the resources they already have within their galaxy.

Our nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. It is doubtful aliens or mankind ever travel outside their galaxy. The distances are just too great. There is no need for civilizations to travel much beyond their adjacent stars. It would be easier to terraform planets than to 'haul in' stars. :-)

Shirley this must be satire.

[Red Badger]

Shirley this must be satire.

It's close. What it actually is, it's a senior scientist with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with WAAAAAAY too much time on his hands...................

[Red Badger]

.....and don’t call me Shirley..........that was my uncle’s name.................

[Pontiac]

You covered my thoughts on the article quite well.

Glad I resisted the urge to jump right in and post them.

Repetition can be so redundant don’t you agree.