The biggest axe against it being an alien megastructure project is the fact its an F-type star. F-types only live a couple billion years, depending on mass.
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The other universe aliens might want some serious payback.
You'd really want to send him as our ambassador?
No. Just no.
His ego along will probably cause the singularity to collapse further and suck the rest of us along, and when he gets to the other side, he’d probably cause their Big Bang, annihilating everything there. And we’d end up in the middle of nowhere.
“Anybody you’d like to nominate?”
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