The Joy of Tech comic... Betelgeuse is dimming!

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How do you think that star-dimmer switch actually works?

It's some sort of freaky alien magic.
Could it work by sending a cooling beam at the star?
It's actually not working, the aliens are staging a practical joke on another alien race, by setting up the prop star dimmer.
Betelgeuse is actually just the galaxy's biggest space heater, so the star dimmer works like a modern light dimmer, rapidly shutting the fusion reactions on and off to reduce the total amount of energy radiating from the star.
Obviously it's channeling cosmic rays through filaments of Nitrozanium, which increasing the substantial energy barrier of electrostatic forces within the atomic nuclei of the star, blocking quantum tunnelling, and nullifying the compressive effects of gravity, yet maintaining the confined environment.

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The Joy of Tech is a comic about technology and pop culture, created by Nitrozac and Snaggy, and updated three times a week. We like to feature the people and events that are making today's tech and pop culture news.

We've been making comics on the web since early 1999, starting off with After Y2K, and then The Joy of Tech, which is now in its whoa... 20th year!

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