[Red Badger]

Depending on which cosmological theory you subscribe to, the Universe will either continue to expand infinitely, cool off and die, OR, it will eventually stop expanding, begin to collapse and everything will die, and will start anew.

Either way, it will kill you..................

[NorthMountain]

This would make for some interesting Science Fiction.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If you have the technology to capture and transport a star, then you have the technology to produce all the energy you want anyway.

[BeauBo]

Aliens might be able to do it, but liberals would never go for us doing it.

[I want the USA back]

Assuming that the Universe is expanding, the aliens are expanding with it.

Assuming that the Universe is 14 billion years old, then any event that is expected to happen in 100 billion years is nothing but pure speculation, designed to get people to read articles.
If the Universe is expanding like the article implies, then eventually, after a very long time, a few trillion years, perhaps, Mars will be so far from Earth that we will not see the light from it.
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

[dfwgator]

"Can I buy some pot from you?"

[Snickering Hound]

[BitWielder1]

We won't have this problems, Liberals will make sure our population does not grow, Communism and Islam will take over, to ensure we're stuck on this planet forever.

[robroys woman]

The presence of dark energy in our universe is causing space to expand at an accelerating rate.

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It’s cute how they describe an hypothesis as though it was a fact.

[Moonman62]

Humans first need to figure out how to move the Earth farther from the Sun as it heats up and expands.

If we could shoot the mass of Al Gore toward the Sun near the speed of light that would probably do it.

[a fool in paradise]

Galactic Climate Change!!!

[C210N]

Could aliens harness stars...

Only legal aliens should be able to. But, the left will want any aliens to have the option.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Instead of a Dyson Sphere, how about a Dyson Ball? Would that work?!

[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.

[broken_arrow1]

I think I saw that episode on Star Trek Continues.

[JimRed]

As long as public funds are used to pay for BS “research” like this, we’ll get more of it.

[circlecity]

I’ve always wondered, if the universe is expanding to where is it expanding? Doesn’t it require that the “space” all of the matter in the universe exists in be infinite?

[ETL]

[MHGinTN]

Such an advanced civil would have figured no to tap the latent energy of expansion (the zero point field). Collecting stars would be unnecessary.

[WMarshal]

I have entertained ideas that our universe is being ripped apart by bigger, older objects that are so old that they have gone cold and radiate nothing but gravity. Our universe could be like like an explosion in vacuum where, after the initial violence and heat, continues to expand faster to reach equilibrium due to the gravitational pull to fill a much larger reality than our observable universe. I suspect that “dark matter” is a flawed theory that will be disproved.

[Slyfox]

Those aliens would have to be HUGE.

There was a Star Trek episode about that planet where Greek gods went to and they had incredible powers that included growing to huge heights when they got mad.

They might be able to do it.

Yep, some made up gods, on a made up planet, on a made up TV show could do it.