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New study supports natural causes, not alien activity, explain mystery star's behavior
phys.org ^ | May 9, 2016 | David Salisbury

Posted on 05/09/2016 8:56:03 PM PDT by rdl6989

Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a vast shell called a Dyson sphere. Public interest in the star, which sits about 1,480 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, began last fall when Yale astronomer Tabetha ("Tabby") Boyajian and colleagues posted a paper on an astronomy preprint server reporting that "planet hunters" - a citizen science group formed to search data from the Kepler space telescope for evidence of exoplanets - had found unusual fluctuations in the light coming from the otherwise ordinary F-type star (slightly larger and hotter than the sun).

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: alienmegastructure; captainobvious; catastrophism; comets; cygnus; dysonsphere; haltonarp; jasonwright; kic8462852; ringwordisunstable; ringworld; seti; stringtheory; tabbyboyajian; tabbys; tabbysstar; tabethaboyajian; xplanets

1 posted on 05/09/2016 8:56:03 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SunkenCiv

your lists might find this interesting.


2 posted on 05/09/2016 8:56:51 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

The coverup continues.


3 posted on 05/09/2016 9:00:17 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: rdl6989

Huh.


4 posted on 05/09/2016 9:03:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: rdl6989

Wonder if Scotty’s over there in an infinite transporter loop.


5 posted on 05/09/2016 9:17:45 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The coverup continues.

You have to train yourself to see through the coverup...


6 posted on 05/09/2016 9:39:09 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: rdl6989

This is kind of meaningful for me because I knew Tabby growing up as her parents were friends with mine. I was surprised when my father recently told me about her accomplishments and I was glad to see she had done so well for herself.
It’s a vast Universe but still a small world.


7 posted on 05/09/2016 9:44:27 PM PDT by gawatchman
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Creating a Dyson bubble would be an incredible engineering challenge

Not for Them.

8 posted on 05/09/2016 9:50:26 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: rdl6989
The shadow square ring has obviously been damaged.

Hot times on the ringworld.

9 posted on 05/09/2016 11:05:19 PM PDT by TChad
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To: rdl6989

Darn!


10 posted on 05/09/2016 11:17:31 PM PDT by ShivaFan
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To: rdl6989

Thought the guy with the wild hair would have shown up by now.


11 posted on 05/10/2016 12:19:16 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: rdl6989

Thanks rdl6989, will ping later.


12 posted on 05/10/2016 12:30:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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Thanks rdl6989.
 
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13 posted on 05/10/2016 4:48:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The coverup continues.

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

14 posted on 05/10/2016 9:48:16 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
You forgot the sarcasm tag.

You're one of them, right? One of the "Others"? YOU WILL NEVER GET TO USE MY BODY AS A HUMAN FLESH COSTUME.

15 posted on 05/10/2016 3:46:49 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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16 posted on 05/22/2016 7:39:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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17 posted on 05/22/2016 7:39:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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