[C19fan]

I'm not saying it's aliens but it's aliens.

[thoughtomator]

I’m not saying it’s aliens but it’s grant money.

[sparklite2]

I’m not saying it’s Tabby, but it’s Tabby.

[JimRed]

Regular cycles of dimming can be due to a large planet or dark companion star passing between the star and the telescope. But that theory would not tend to justify more grants to “study” it...

[Dogbert41]

A clear case of being so brilliant that your a total moron.

[Darteaus94025]

It’s the Debbie WS mother ship.

[DannyTN]

Buck Murdock: Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We’ve all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they’re *flashing* and they’re *beeping*. I can’t stand it anymore! They’re *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn’t somebody pull the plug!

[Scythian_Reborn]

Steven Hawking is a full on nutcase, sorry ...

[ConservativeDude]

Why can’t they use the proper term for “alien megastructure”? (Death star)

[oblomov]

It’s just the c-beams glittering in the dark near Tannhauser Gate.

[PCPOET7]

everyone knows that George Lucas never had an original idea...we finally found the Death Star in the galaxy far far away.

[delete306]

This is such a ridiculous waste of money. So what if it's aliens? Meaningful communication is impossible. Faster that light travel is IMPOSSIBLE. Just like -- and I hate to disappoint all the jobless losers living in their parent's basement -- light sabres are IMPOSSIBLE!

[Phlap]

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

[tet68]

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

[YogicCowboy]

Dyson Sphere?

Spielberg Magic & Light?

[Kudsman]

‘alien megastructure

It's not alien. Al Gore built it.

[Alas Babylon!]

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.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

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