Tabitha's star theory

For those who don't know Tabitha's star is that star that we got those weird light variations on, that had the internet buzzing with the possibility of a Dyson Sphere being built there. I know intelligent life is the last possibility you should be mentioning, but what are the other possibilities? It can't be an asteroid belt, ours only has about the mass of Mars and we saw something bigger than that. It could be concentrated space dust in the space between our two systems I guess, after all we've only had two detections of these weird variations (we missed out on our chance to get our third but we'll get it soon), until you've seen at least three variations you can't claim that it is for sure something orbiting that star.

Also why the hell would you build a Dyson Swarm around a red star? Especially when there are two neighbouring stars that have stars that will last way longer. And yeah it can't be a Dyson Sphere, that's not practical, a Dyson Swarm is what you want.

Also if the intelligent life that is doing this came from Tabitha's star system then that means it reached Type 2 civilization faster than we've reached Type .8, a lot faster, our sun has a much longer time span than Tabitha's star. That means the intelligent life is more likely to have come from one of the two neighbouring star systems right? But why the hell would they go build a Dyson Swarm for a dying star?

The only thing I could think of is if they want to stop the star from going supernova. If alfa centauri our closest star went supernova it wouldn't be good for us. If you build a Dyson Swarm around a star and used it for Star Lifting you could reduce the mass of the star and expand it's lifetime, also you can use this mass to build the Dyson Swarm as you go. Also by reducing the mass of the star you make it less likely for the star to go supernova.

So what if, if we do get a third detection of the light variation, what we are seeing is an intelligent civilization performing an insane feet of enginnering in an attempt to survive a stellar catastrophe?

I'm writing this off memory so some facts I may have f*cked up, so please let me know if you find something that's wrong.

Submitted October 28, 2016 at 01:10AM by chicken-burger http://ift.tt/2ehcrmS