• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Aliens: “Wow, such a young species already building a dyson sphere?”

    Human: “Huh? Oh, that? No, thats our Galactic Parabolic Orbit Slingshot Array, AKA ye ol’ sun nudger to get earth closer to another usable star.”

    Aliens: “…”

    Humans: "You ok?’

    Aliens: “If you can maintain fragile habitability while you move stars why not just turn your planet into a space station?”

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      “Because it already is? A living ecosystem can usually outperform and absolutely outlast any sort of machine fabricated environment. Throw a gas giant at the distant edge of your dwarf system and it’ll sort out nearly all the deadly rocks. Why fix what isn’t broken?”