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[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?"

[โ€“] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

"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?"