{"id":225508,"date":"2025-11-20T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-study-raises-disturbing-prospect-about-alien-civilizations-using-dyson-swarms"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:04:44","slug":"new-study-raises-disturbing-prospect-about-alien-civilizations-using-dyson-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-study-raises-disturbing-prospect-about-alien-civilizations-using-dyson-swarms","title":{"rendered":"New Study Raises \u201cDisturbing Prospect\u201d About Alien Civilizations Using Dyson Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-raises-disturbing-prospect-about-alien-civilizations-using-dyson-swarms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis raises a disturbing prospect\u2014a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to stabilize their megaswarms, leaving everything within its \u2018bubble\u2019 barren of planets. If those megaswarms then are destroyed anyway, no planets will remain on which to restart life,\u201d the paper explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, in most early-type galaxies, there will be no star formation to ever replace them. Thus, the megaswarms portend doom, and leave behind a permanently sterilized galaxy in their wake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we don\u2019t want to detect one after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis raises a disturbing prospect\u2014a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to stabilize their megaswarms, leaving everything within its \u2018bubble\u2019 barren of planets. If those megaswarms then are destroyed anyway, no planets will remain on which to restart life,\u201d the paper explains. \u201cFurthermore, in most early-type galaxies, there will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}