[kjam22]

Short answer... no.

[DannyTN]

It'd not Mega structures. It's Mega Aliens. Why do we expect aliens to be our size?

[Vince Ferrer]

I can’t think of anyone who expects aliens to build something that has an efdect like this. This is just more budget porn.

[fidelis]

[spokeshave]

Probably just an inter galactic tractor beam range finding on the Hubble telescope.

Or even one of these calibrating its long range on the Hubble

[Leroy S. Mort]

Assuming it was alien technology, it was tech they were using 1480 years ago. Think about that.

[TChad]

Something appears to be blocking out the light, but it's not a planet, and the star is too old to be surrounded by the rings of debris that tend to circle around younger stars.

Shadow squares. The inner ring surrounding the sun contains shadow squares:

The outer ring is a ringworld.

The revolving shadow square ring is supposed to produce a regular series of days and nights for those living inside the ringworld.

Maybe it's damaged.

[ETL]

[ETL]

[ETL]

What’s really interesting and potentially promising with this particular method of planet detecting is if or when a planet does move in from of its host star, a spectral analysis can be done to determine which chemicals are present in its atmosphere, if it does in fact have an atmosphere.

[V K Lee]

And why would this deduction be suspected? Because so much about aliens is known? Is it also known that when these same aliens hang it up for the day they then relax over a few martinis and a handful of nuts before retiring. Please! I think not. Perhaps this phenomena was built by a higher Authority still (far above any alien life) Is there life out there. Life any crazier than that here?

[FreedomPoster]

Bfl

[ZinGirl]

It’s probably one of those “get your free phone” booths outside social services.

[camle]

really? someone’s been reading too many bad scifi novels....just try to contemplate the amount of resources needed to make something like this...you’re talking about hundreds of entire planets, assuming each planet has the right material.

any culture with the technology to do this would have the intelligence not to waste it’s resources doing this when there are better, cheaper ways.

and yes, i’ve read ‘ringworld’. cute story, but how many solar system must be destroyed just to make it?

[G Larry]

no

[JoeProBono]

[HeadOn]

In other news, scientists have discovered a very high-flying species of Asian bottle-flies that tend to congregate on glass lenses.

Film at 11:00.