[Baynative]

Isn’t global warming the obvious answer?

[ClearCase_guy]

"It's a normal star behaving weirdly," Schaefer said.

Ain't that a KIC in the head.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Since we are unable to see anything more than an apparent dimming of the star, all of them being too far away to make out any details whatsoever, it makes no sense to jump to conclusions. It could be a thousand different things, and whoever picked up and ran with the “alien magastructure” idea was acting out of sheer hysteria.

[JoeProBono]

[libertylover]

It's a normal star behaving weirdly.

You mean, like Bruce Jenner?

[DBrow]

They are building a Dyson sphere.

[null and void]

[gcraig]

Might be a variable star with an extraordinarily long cycle.

[trebb]

It’s paying attention to our politics and starting to lean Left - that makes any brightness dim...