A Nice Illustration of Scale...

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by BetterThanLife:
If the Grandfather wanted to do that, wouldn't he put a ringworld there? After all in that case he could probably fit the entire population of the Known Universe on it.

(There would be little point in using a Dyson Sphere.) [/QB]

There's arguably little point in anything that the Ancients have done .

It's one reason I can't abide them, they're usually just assumed to have screwed around with the universe wholesale for completely random reasons (largely to explain nonsensical UWPs, actually). Once you start saying "the Ancients did it" then all pretense of a realistic universe goes out of the window.

 

[GypsyComet]

A 1000AU radius ringworld? Eegah!

 

[Valarian]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
There's arguably little point in anything that the Ancients have done .

It's one reason I can't abide them, they're usually just assumed to have screwed around with the universe wholesale for completely random reasons (largely to explain nonsensical UWPs, actually). Once you start saying "the Ancients did it" then all pretense of a realistic universe goes out of the window.

Children must have something to play with, and if the children have the intellects and powers of godlings, then they play with the universe.