"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message
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Except that it doesn't go anywhere. That's one of the things that really
****es me off in science fiction. First example- a great Next Gen episode
with Scotty. Why in the world (no pun intended) would a Dyson Sphere cause
a
gravitational anomaly, if the solar system that was there did not? That
bit
of nonsense completely disrupted my suspension of disbelief, and made it
hard to enjoy the rest of the episode.

Because, you detect this huge gravitational pull, look there and hmm,
there's no sun. And no apparant sign of x-rays. Something strange is going
on. Let's go check it out.

(Of course a quick scan in infra-red would show something. :-)