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To: AntiGuv

At the moment we couldn't see our impressive civilization from Mars. There are some hypothetical characteristics of civilizations that might have achieved a higher level of technology than ours, Dyson spheres, for example, that would alter the spectrum as seen of their central star, that could be seen from a good distance. These are big things that ought to be detectable.


148 posted on 08/17/2005 8:43:22 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: RightWhale

What if no advanced civilization has any reason to build a Dyson sphere? My opinion is that we will never build a Dyson sphere and neither will anyone else. However grand the concept, it is nonetheless a crude and costly solution to a problem that IMO almost certainly will not exist by the time we could build one.


152 posted on 08/17/2005 9:03:06 AM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: RightWhale
Dyson spheres, for example, that would alter the spectrum as seen of their central star

I'll say!

Considering that a Dyson sphere ENCAPSULATES a star and planet(s) within, it would undoubtedly affect the radiation observed from "outside". In effect, the star would (from a distant observer's POV) "fade out" over several generations.

It would merely be a "mystery of the stars" for all observers, unless and until they/we can travel there and find out what's going on.

169 posted on 08/19/2005 12:51:10 AM PDT by Don W (The french were put on earth ONLY to give Germans an over-inflated sense of military prowess)
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