Posted on 10/15/2015 12:04:31 PM PDT by grundle
“It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data,” said Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. “We were scratching our heads. For any idea that came up there was always something that would argue against it.”
She was talking to the New Scientist about KIC 8462852, a distant star with a very unusual flickering habit. Something was making the star dim drastically every few years, and she wasn’t sure what.
Boyajian wrote up a paper on possible explanations for the star’s bizarre behavior, and it was published recently in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. But she also sent her data to fellow astronomer Jason Wright, a Penn State University researcher who helped developed a protocol for seeking signs of unearthly civilization, wondering what he would make of it.
To Wright, it looked like the kind of star he and his colleagues had been waiting for. If none of the ordinary reasons for the star’s flux quite seemed to fit, perhaps an extraordinary one was in order.
Aliens.
Or, to be more specific, something built by aliens — a “swarm of megastructures,” as he told the Atlantic, likely outfitted with solar panels to collect energy from the star.
“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright said. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”
To be sure, both Boyajian and Wright believe the possibility of alien megastructures around KIC 8462852 is very, very remote. It’s worthy of hypothesis, Wright told Slate, “but we should also approach it skeptically.”
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Didn’t get to your post. You beat me to it.
Borg.
Mind the Shadow Square wire...
U owe me a keyboard...
Coffee spew alert LOLOLOL
I was thinking similar. The star may have huge rings of rocky debris around it, not just one like ours. And they may not all be in the same plane, so they would line up at different times and different thicknesses...........................
Why don’t we send illegals and Syrian refugees there to investigate that for all of us?
I throw Satan and the fallen angels into the category of 'aliens'. But I agree - those are it. Just the Triune Creator God, us, the good angels, and evil angels...
I was thinking a Dyson Sphere.
Good call, I see there were a few of us on the same track. :)
Many extraterrestrial superpowers want their solar system to appear as if it is pulsing brighter and dimmer when viewed from afar 1,500 years in the future.
It’s their way of playing a trick on less advanced worlds.
Posting of the Day Award!
You were right when you said on your show last night that this story would start filtering into the mainstream news. Washington Post=mainstream news.
However, I think you were incorrect in your speculation that it would eventually find its way into cable news. I don’t believe that will happen. We shall see, old friend. In either case, it’s fun to watch.
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Dyson sphere under construction.
Beat me to it ;)
Is it 1x4x9?
Looks like a rather stringent process in support of their conclusion.
Yes! Aliens are a big part of the whole satanic deception involving evolution.
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