What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science? - Literary Hub

I am a huge fan of the Alien franchise…mostly. Alien and Aliens were ground-breaking movies and instant classics. Alien 3 had good parts (mostly the great British actors shining up a quickly knocked out script). Alien Resurrection was … not great.  Alien: Romulus was pretty good, despite a dodgy CGI android and a practical effect monster that looked like it was dodgy CGI. But the recent Alien: Earth series was fantastic. However, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant were absolutely dreadful. The bad science in these films made them almost unwatchable. Sadly, the next Alien movie (which was to be helmed by the showrunner of Alien: Romulus and to continue that story) has been taken over by Ridley Scott, and will follow on from his awful Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017).

The Dyson sphere was first proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in 1960. There are many ways to scour the stars for intelligent life. You can search for radio signatures whose repetitions suggest intentional design, or examine a planet that orbits its star in a so-called Goldilocks Zone conducive for habitation. One of the wildest (but still hypothetically plausible) scenarios involves what’s known as a Dyson sphere.