Oh simple solution to not frying Earth with the energy.

Don't send it to Earth.

Most our industry and population will be living off world anyways.

Launching meteors at earth is the biggest threat

Of course, there's no atmosphere (any longer)!

The aliens already utilized its precious gaseous elements for the construction of their righteous Dyson swarm.

For structure to form, you need to compress gas in a small volume. As gas is compressed, it's temperature increases and so do the random motions of the theoreticized WIMPs. That means that at a certain point, the gas cloud stops collapsing (this is also called 'virialization'). The only way to collapse further is if the gas cloud would leak out temperature somehow, and that can only happen via radiation. And dark matter can't radiate, so it can't cool further

For one thing, perfect smoothness doesn't eliminate friction - there's also electrostatic attraction between molecules. Eventually the planet rotating under the water would coax it to move.

But moreover, the atmosphere would be screaming by overhead since it does rotate with the Earth. The atmosphere is chaotic, with zones of different pressures which press down on bodies of water unevenly, creating irregularities that the sideways wind can act on to create waves. This is how wind stirs up waves on calm, smooth lakes and such.

Shouldn't be that long hopefully. I thought the orbital time is like 21 days max for these planets, some a lot shorter.

Yes but planets can lose gas to space via thermal escape, at very high rates depending on the temperature. There is also photochemical reactions caused by UV rays that can also drive atmospheric escape, so this planet could have a strong magnetic field and still have no atmosphere, especially if it is this close to its host star, a relatively active red dwarf at that.

If you want to see the end of the world and don't wanna wait, just fly over the event horizon.

But don't blink, or you will miss it. The "rest of time" will be compressed into a short, intense gamma ray burst.

Ask yes thinking about it the constant I'm thinking of was specifically for gravity between two masses g(mm/r²)? Idk it's been a long time lol

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A Dyson swarm, what the Dyson sphere original concept was.

Has none of these downsides. You get usable living space and energy production with each habitat, power satellite you build and you build it as much as you want/ have resources for.

Ooh yeah it sure helped me put things into perspective. I guess us citizens are ashamed of the system so they downvoted you

Nothing a few lava lamps, some mood music and a fire pit can't fix.

Honestly, didn't read the article, it was a bit too long, but to further your argument, a Dyson sphere doesn't have to be a solid sphere encapsulating the star. One can theoretically put a swarm/lattice of 'dyson satellites' in orbit around the sun to achieve the same effect. What holds back the concept of a Dyson sphere as a valid energy source is not our satellite building tech or mining abilities, but that we don't yet know how to transmit this energy that's generated in Space onto Earth without frying it.

1. Expansion is not constant. It has changed a lot between the big bang and now.
2. Expansion depends on the amount of space there is, more space equals more expansion
3. This is called the big rip. I'm not certain what the current state of research is regarding that. But it won't happen for many billions of years.

TRAPPIST system is a significant point of study - there are loads of brilliant people waiting for this data. Stay tuned. 1b is just a little something to wet your whistle.

I can see you're a real smart guy.

Could I interest you in my perpetual motion machine that is guaranteed to make you a bazillionairre (this is a very large new number that hasn't been discovered yet).

The idea of high altitude haze is for the haze to be in a zone where the atmospheric pressure is too low to effectively transport heat from dayside to nightside, and thus causing it to look like airless planet. That said the haze itself might move and jeopardize this, but I figured it's better to ask.

Plus, Venus is technically in the Sun's Goldilocks Zone. If it weren't for the runaway greenhouse effect, it might as well have been habitable. There are some models that do hint that Venus had water oceans like Earth for a few million years before its atmosphere took a turn.

You can deny the orbitals for a fraction of the cost of controlling them.

You're better off trying to figure out how to share :(

Would that be consistent with the thermal measurements? Sounds like there isn't as much heat exchange between the day and night sides of the planet as there would be with an atmosphere.

He who controls the orbitals, controls the world.

Are you calling the DC-X a suborbital rocket? That seems like a stretch, it never made it to space or close. DC-XA got 3140 meters up. That is about a quarter as high as a normal commercial aircraft flights.

Most of it is not, the milky way isn't millions of light years across.

Balloons are well in atmosphere and not even close to space. More of an Air Force problem than a Space Force problem.