Rube Goldberg should be the one honored to name that space station gateway in and to nowhere. I will call it the Rube Goldberg Space Station from here on (until I observe some other unnecessary failure in my everyday life and find another taunt, it isn’t very hard to do!)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667852/

Localfluff–
I want to thank you, for summarizing that Paper! (I didn’t want to think that hard today, it’s too cold where I am!)
On the total upside; it doesn’t involve 11 Dimensions, or mysterious non-white matter.

Tangentially, the Rube Goldberg website is back up & running.
https://www.rubegoldberg.com/gallery/

– Aluminium-26 is produced during the evolution of the massive star,
– released in the wind during the W-R phase, and
– condenses into dust grains that are seen around W-R stars [this rare kind of star].
– The dust grains survive passage through the reverse shock and the low density shocked wind, reach the dense shell swept-up by the bubble,
– detach from the decelerated wind and
– are injected into the shell.
– Some portions of this shell subsequently collapses
– to form the dense cores
– that give rise to solar-type systems.
– The subsequent aspherical supernova does not inject appreciable amounts of 60Fe into the proto-solar-system

Baffingly to the mind, if it tries to think about it, such lines of reasoning have been *exorbitantly* effective in physics, including even astrophysics about exotic stars which have never been viewed as more than a point source, one single stream of photons.

This is infinitely more plausible than the “alien superstructures in Space,” stuff!