[ExI] Tabby's star

[BillK]

On 10 December 2016 at 11:56, Rafal Smigrodzki  wrote:
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>
> If all of the above is correct, then taking aliens at Tabby's star seriously
> would require believing that aliens, who built tens of millions of Dyson
> spheres in our galaxy in the last couple of hundred million years, have
> failed to manifest in other ways. We failed to notice 100 000 Dyson spheres
> in our neighborhood? Did we fail to see the multiple Dyson spheres in the
> surrounding 100 light years, at our doorstep? We found 28 planets (!) in
> this area and failed to see the Dyson spheres?
>
> This strains my credulity. I am willing to take a bet up to $1000 at 10:1
> odds against me that in the next year there will be no peer reviewed
> confirmation of alien activity at Tabby's star, or anywhere else in the
> universe.
>


I go along with Rafal's suggestion, but for different reasons.

I think we are anthropomorphising far too much when we think advanced
aliens will be building huge versions of what we have at present. Once
nano-tech is achieved, huge just seems silly.


BillK