Does life have to be carbon based ?

[JemHadar]

Have fun with this one

https://youtu.be/XNK5oahmw3I

[Kal Rubinson]

Thanks. That was neat.

[PHC1]

If the theory was based on the fact that some stars are cooling faster than the stellar models can account for, I'd suggest exploring the possibility of conventional but technologically advanced carbon based life harvesting the energy of the star first.

I would also suggest allowing for the possibility that some of the "models" may not be accurate enough...

Reaching for the strings and monopoles for a possible form of "star life" is a creative and entertaining theory but I would not place any bets on it personally.

Would I place a bet that some stars dim unexplainably because there is something much more advanced going on than we currently understand? But there is a conventional carbon based life is behind it? Yes I would...

[PHC1]

How to dominate the universe in three easy steps …

Step 1: Harvest all of your planet's resources.

Step 2: Harvest all of your nearest star's energy.

Step 3: Harvest all the energy from all the stars in your local galaxy; then move on to another galaxy.



Astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev first proposed these three phases (called Level I, II and III) of galactic expansion — which he referred to as the three "types" of technologically advanced civilizations — in 1962 as a way to measure the energy consumption of increasingly powerful societies.

According to the author of the paper, Dan Hooper — a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago — harvesting energy from distant stars isn't just the best way to increase a civilization's available resources. It's also the only way to prevent the ever-expanding universe from leaving that civilization totally alone in the vastness of space.

https://www.livescience.com/62917-al...rk-energy.html