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And on the subject of stupid space ideas again. The Dyson sphere/swarm idea annoys me as well. There is this idea that any advanced civilization would create huge structures around the sun to capture the energy of the sun and somehow it is guaranteed and all advanced species must reach this point. Doing this would of course involve huge amounts of resources to the point that you would be dismantling entire planets but the real question is why? There seems to be this assumption that to progress would require this huge amount of power and that for some reason we will just keep consuming more and more power forever. In fact some have similar ideas regarding resources, that space civilizations are going to want to tear apart all planets they can get to for resources. Why? This makes no sense. There is clearly a limit to the amount of power and resources we actually need and as technology advances that limit will only plateau. We are not going to need to harness the entire sun and tear apart the galaxy, what would that even achieve? If anything an advanced civilization would do it's best to limit the energy and resources that it needs in order to create a perfect and balanced world. They would reach a population that was comfortable to support, find ways to sustainably and comfortably sustain that population and live like that for all time. We already actually see this in real life, most populations stick at a level they feel is comfortable for the nation to support, it's why the population of France hovered at around 20 million for so long until technology increased that comfort level, it's why nations like Japan, Italy and Germany hit a plateau and actually started seeing a reduction in population(though immigration started changing this for Germany).