My goal is to drag hope back into the light from whatever dark corner of the universe it decided to hide in when it saw certain political and social figures start to emerge from their sarcophagi. Because without hope, none of us make it to the next step. The isolationism has to end. The greed has to end. We got to…

Oh, I don’t disagree. The odds of actually spotting a star with an engineering event going on around it are about a billion trillion to one, assuming that there would be about 2 civilizations at any given time capable of performing such an act, and that they would do so to a star that was within our visible radius,…

As for the Prime Directive, I’m advocating that working on stars unlikely to harbor life is a more logical solution than finding already existing habitable worlds to colonize. As an ancestor of mine once said: Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day - teach him to fish, and he’ll be fed for a lifetime. Remember,…

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.