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'Alien megastructure' 1,400 light years away will be looked at for signs of life [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 26, 2016 | Ryan O'Hare

Posted on 10/26/2016 10:34:11 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

It would be an “alien megastructure’ if there were aliens. But there ain’t.


21 posted on 10/26/2016 11:38:14 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: thoughtomator

You win the internet for the day.


22 posted on 10/26/2016 11:41:55 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Reeses
Hawking has made one good point about ET discovery.

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.

23 posted on 10/26/2016 11:43:42 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Reeses
Hawking has made one good point about ET discovery.

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.

24 posted on 10/26/2016 11:43:42 AM PDT by AU72
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To: JimRed

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.


25 posted on 10/26/2016 11:47:01 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: JimRed

If there’s more than one dark companion in different orbits it would make for more irregular cycles.


26 posted on 10/26/2016 11:52:59 AM PDT by piasa
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To: PCPOET7

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


27 posted on 10/26/2016 11:54:53 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: AU72
He says it may not be a good idea to make ourselves known 'out there'.

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.

28 posted on 10/26/2016 11:57:01 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: ConservativeDude

That’s no moon...


29 posted on 10/26/2016 12:17:06 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (When the going gets tough, Republicans have to GO PEE.)
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To: Reeses

LOL, nice Chris Rock reference there!


30 posted on 10/26/2016 12:20:20 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (When the going gets tough, Republicans have to GO PEE.)
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To: C19fan

Frankly, we have no idea what this is so calling it
a mega-structure is somewhat premature, also alien.


31 posted on 10/26/2016 12:22:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: C19fan

Dyson Sphere?

Spielberg Magic & Light?


32 posted on 10/26/2016 12:57:57 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: thoughtomator

Very astute!


33 posted on 10/26/2016 12:58:16 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

It’s a Kim Kardashian “full moon”!


34 posted on 10/26/2016 1:02:15 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (BEWARE THE ABORTION POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!)
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To: 556x45

A fool’s money is soon parted.


35 posted on 10/26/2016 1:04:30 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: C19fan
‘alien megastructure

It's not alien. Al Gore built it.

36 posted on 10/26/2016 1:04:45 PM PDT by Kudsman (Trump or bust 2016!)
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To: sparklite2

I’m not saying it’s Tabby, but it’s ALIENS~!


37 posted on 10/26/2016 2:00:15 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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Let's see... 1,400 light years away? Why that is only about 10,000 trillion miles away. One trillion seconds is 32,000 years. So...10,000 trillion miles is quite a ways. Conclusion: getting grant money and wasting taxpayers' funds.
38 posted on 10/26/2016 2:58:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: C19fan

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.


39 posted on 10/26/2016 4:26:03 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: C19fan

Suspect that space is a much weirder place than we can imagine.


40 posted on 10/26/2016 7:34:06 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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