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Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:12 pm
According to the UK Independent
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A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.
"I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Wright told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build."
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Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
The analysts tagged the star as “interesting “ and “bizarre” because it was surrounded by a mass of matter in tight formation.
This was consistent with the mass of debris that surrounds a young star just as it did with our sun before the planets formed. However this star wasn’t young and the debris must have been deposited around it fairly recently or it would have been clumped together by gravity – or swallowed by the star itself.
Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published a paper looking at all the possible natural explanations for the objects and found all of them wanting except one – that another star had pulled a string of comets close to KIC 8462852. But even this would involve an incredibly improbable coincidence.
That’s when Wright, the astronomer from Penn State University and his colleague Andrew Siemion, the Director of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) got involved. Now the possibility that the objects were created by intelligent creatures is being taken very seriously by the team.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:13 pm to blueboy
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:13 pm to blueboy
We are the borg. Resistance is futile
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:14 pm to blueboy
It looks like they're forming some sort of... mega-person.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:15 pm to blueboy
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A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said.
Do they look like pyramids? if not, idgaf b/c not aliens.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:20 pm to blueboy
Damn it, Rick Sanchez. What did you do now?
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:21 pm to blueboy
What would suck is if we did figure out there was civilized life out there but it's too far away to know anything else.
FWIW, I still don't believe in aliens or ghosts.
FWIW, I still don't believe in aliens or ghosts.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:28 pm to blueboy
If this is an alien civilization, it is Type 2, which would be incredibly exciting. They would be masters of their solar system. Would be awesome if this were truly an extraterrestrial civilization and it was confirmed in our lifetime.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:29 pm to BabyTac
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FWIW, I still don't believe in aliens or ghosts.
So out of the thousands of trillions of planets in the universe, we're the only place that harbors life?
This post was edited on 10/15/15 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:30 pm to blueboy
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this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build
Wouldn't you have to have some previous data in order to expect what an alien civilization may or may not build?
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Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published a paper looking at all the possible natural explanations for the objects and found all of them wanting except one – that another star had pulled a string of comets close to KIC 8462852. But even this would involve an incredibly improbable coincidence.
Well in something the size of the universe improbable coincidences will probably happen
This post was edited on 10/15/15 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:37 pm to etm512
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Wouldn't you have to have some previous data in order to expect what an alien civilization may or may not build?
Because we have some idea that most species wish to control their environment. It's more about detecting how much they've managed to control their environment and utilize mass amounts of energy that we're looking for. There are 4 types of civilizations that are out there.
Type 0: This is us. Pretty much only radio waves sent from these planets can be can be known, but they have to be close before they get so spread out that it's nothing but interstellar fuzz.
Type 1: Have mastered their planet entirely and can manipulate it. Buck Rodgers is an example of this.
Type 2: Have mastered their star and solar system and can manipulate it for its energy. This is what level they're talking about in the article. Star Trek would be an example of this type of civilization.
Type 3: Have mastered the Galaxy. Star Wars is an example of this.
This post was edited on 10/15/15 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:41 pm to BabyTac
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Yes
So with a near infinite amount of time on a near infinite number of planets orbitting a near infinite number of stars, how does that happen only once in a universe expanding 28 billion light years? It is mathmatically impossible we are truly alone.
This post was edited on 10/15/15 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:43 pm to BabyTac
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FWIW, I still don't believe in aliens or ghosts.
One of these is not like the other.
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