Posted on 10/26/2016 10:34:11 AM PDT by C19fan
Scientists scanning the night sky in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence are turning their telescopes towards a mysterious star, which had been flagged as an ‘alien megastructure’. As part of a $100 million (£81 million) project, backed by Stephen Hawking, astronomers will target the strange stellar object which has baffled scientists since its discovery. Called Tabby’s Star, its regular cycles of dimming have been claimed by some to be a sign of intelligent beings – warranting enough interest for a closer look.
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It would be an “alien megastructure’ if there were aliens. But there ain’t.
You win the internet for the day.
He says it may not be a good idea to make ourselves known 'out there'. Contacts between advanced civilizations and lesser have never worked out well for the lesser.
He says it may not be a good idea to make ourselves known 'out there'. Contacts between advanced civilizations and lesser have never worked out well for the lesser.
Yes, that’s sensible.
Except that the pattern of occlusion has to fit within certain physical limits, which apparently this pattern isn’t.
... Unless it’s artificial, which this pattern suggests it is.
If there’s more than one dark companion in different orbits it would make for more irregular cycles.
That’s some other DeathStar - ours is located just off Saturn in a perfectly circular orbit, with a 12 mile high ridge running around its equator and is not round otherwise called Iapetus - see here:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=1270
That is a plausible explanation why we can't find anyone out there. They are all in hiding. In general for advanced intelligence to form faster than meteor impacts hit, the high speed evolutionary pressure of tribal warfare is necessary. That's certainly been the requirement on planet Earth. The Milky Way should probably be renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Galaxy.
That’s no moon...
LOL, nice Chris Rock reference there!
Frankly, we have no idea what this is so calling it
a mega-structure is somewhat premature, also alien.
Dyson Sphere?
Spielberg Magic & Light?
Very astute!
It’s a Kim Kardashian “full moon”!
A fool’s money is soon parted.
It's not alien. Al Gore built it.
I’m not saying it’s Tabby, but it’s ALIENS~!
I wish people here wouldn’t be so anti-science.
Science isn’t made up of liberals, people. The hard sciences aren’t at least. We’re talking years of hard study, lots of math, and an observant, logical mind.
Hardly a liberal/leftist all emotional brain among them.
As far as grant money; no governments are funding this!
Is funded by Russian Billionaire, Yuri Borisovich Milner. He is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies, now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, Zocdoc, Groupon, JD.com, Planet Labs, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Habito, Wish and many others. Milner’s personal investments also include a stake in 23andMe and Beepi.
Suspect that space is a much weirder place than we can imagine.
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