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In my lifetime I believe that man will either FIND or make contact with intelligent life outside of our planet - at the very least we'll find extraterrestrial life whether it's bacteria, an organism or primitive.
Mankind better hope that if that structure is intelligent life, that they happen to be friendly and giving.... Cuz some aliens could be no better than a corporation wanting to eradicate a rainforest irregardless of it's beauty just so it can put up condos or something to situate another habitat. Hey that kinda sounds familiar....
I cant agree sion , for any civilization to get to be that technologically advanced and be interstellar explorers they would obviously have gone beyond a nuclear age which means they would have dealt with the belligerence that we have or are facing now. I believe all civilization that advance to be type 1 ,2 or 3 have gone beyond war and understand the dangers of that if they didnt they would be or are extinct already coz they couldnt get over that hump.
If you can harness that kind of solar power, terraform planets and light speed travel at that level then you dont need to bother with type civilizations , it would make no sense.
That don't mean they're going to be above negativity, greed, curiosity or whatever nature they have, they wont be perfect. Look at how far we've come as a society from the stone age to now and we still dealing with out own shit. The white man had all of Europe but still came to America and Africa and ravaged them. We don't know for sure what would happen I just hope when we make contact they just want to say "hello" and nothing more....
But what im saying is that for them to advance to that level of intelligence and understanding, it means they would have experienced all those things in their own societies and moved beyond that because they would have seen how destructive it has been or would have been to their own societies, thus i believe they are least likely to come ass colonisers.
but why fam? I mean if those aliens build such a thing around a star(for reasons we can really only speculate), they build something literally thousands of times bigger than Earth....the scale on which they operate is/would be ridiculous...
I mean this civilization level shit and being beyond war/savagery and morally high etc is something I would love to believe, but who knows how they perceive life, maybe to them earth is like what an apple is to us, before u eat it, you wash the bacteria away lol...I mean really, if they can build something thousands of times bigger than our planet and travel through space like we walk and breath, wtf would earth and us be to them? There are trillions of stars and planets out there, if they would need earth for whatever reason they can take it within a heartbeat. Aint gonna be no war or anything like that with them than lol.
I mean we dont know shit about the universe, who said they advanced to the point they are now, we have no idea what they are.
but my argument is war and savagery cant really co-exist with that kind of technological advancement or species advancement especially say the alien lifeforms are say 1000 to 100000 years older than the current homo sapiens species.
you wouldve destroyed yourselves way before you wouldve been that technologically advanced.
moreover what would be the point of consuming our planet as fuel when you can harness Stars for power, there are milllions and billions of stars (in carl sagan's voice) for you to focus on us or be belligerent with us.
I can dig it fam but thats all based on the assumption that 'they' would develop and advance as a species on a similair way as us when there is absolutely no reason to assume such...our concept of civilization and said stages, hell even time itself, it could all very well be different to them. Were thinking they advanced as a species(whatever the fuck they are) with our own concept of time. Who is to say what takes us 1000 years to develop, takes only an hour for them...or that they cant transcend time....
considering the scale of the op post, we could also assume that they are nothing like us, forget our evolution, our story, the way our DNA is set up...who says they started on a single planet? The only form of life we know is our current concept of it. If the species would be similair to us than I would agree with you...but we could be to them what parasites are to us, we could be to them what monkeys are to us, how intelligent we think we are and all the potential we might have, to them our planet might be nothing but pocket change lol.
I mean, why would we assume that their 'civilization' followed similair stages as ours and that we are simply behind? Who says they have emotions or a conscience like us? To become what they are, we wouldnt be human anymore...not only conscience wise, but also physically..
and lets raise the scale and say what if they are like us, why could they not reach this technical advancement without war amd savagery? They might be tappin that star or got the tech for it due to war with another highly advanced species...just like we reached technical advancement due to world war 2, before the house of wisdom was build, omar had to be savage, before the great library of alexanderia, toetmoses the third had to conquer...
my argument is that Im open to everything, they might be like us, they might be 5D, we might be nothing but bacteria for them. They might have build that construction around that star with nothing but their minds....
just think about it...what type of material would that construction be? The universe is so grand. We dont even know wtf is really out there. If the universe would be an inventory, we know 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 % of what is out there...all I know for sure is that...