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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:03:32 AM EDT
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Scientists are usually the ones that first throw out accusations or beliefs in aliens or hyper-advanced races and what not, but if you're interested in reading, they've found something that they can't yet explain, and its absolutely crazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852 The Bush-era Kepler Space Telescope viewed it a few years ago to try to find planet(s) around it. The probe has been extremely, EXTREMELY successful in finding planets around stars. However, when it looked at this star, what it found has basically broken astronomer's understanding of planets, solar systems, and everything else. Unless it doesn't break their understanding - meaning they know exactly what it is - a Dyson Sphere, or at least the beginning formations of it. In layman's terms, telescopes are observing random "Dips" in the brightness of the star. Kepler measures the brightness over a long period of time, and if "Dips" are tracked to a specific time frame, then its assumed a planet is orbiting the star (transit planetary detection). The catch with this star is that there's no rhyme or reason to its brightness dipping. They have an idea when its going to drop, but not the size or length of the drop, which may suggest that its an artificial structure. If you like astronomy, then pay attention to the developments of this star over the next few months and years. Its either going to be aliens, or something that we've never, ever seen before. https://phys.org/news/2017-01-explanation-alien-megastructure.html |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:04:56 AM EDT
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That star has been discussed here before.
On a certain level its depressing, but reassuring, if it really is a dyson sphere. A civilization advanced enough to require the energy from a dyson sphere yet unable to travel the cosmically short distance of 1000 light years to earth. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:05:32 AM EDT
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In before certain meme.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:06:30 AM EDT
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The dips correspond to Morse Code...
The message? "We're coming for you next..." |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:10:20 AM EDT
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Dyson sphere is stupid.
Make your own suns AKA fusion. And... 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:12:54 AM EDT
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That star has been discussed here before. On a certain level its depressing, but reassuring, if it really is a dyson sphere. A civilization advanced enough to require the energy from a dyson sphere yet unable to travel the cosmically short distance of 1000 light years to earth. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:15:27 AM EDT
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The dips correspond to Morse Code... The message? "We're coming for you next..." |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:17:40 AM EDT
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Notice the timing and frequency of press releases such as this? They are happening every day. 9th planet found here, 10th planet found here (source: https://www.space.com/37295-possible-planet-10.html)
We are fastforwarding quickly to a full disclosure, and we are all going through a form of soft disclosure right now. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:17:53 AM EDT
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I'd go to their star. I'd be the first guy to make contact with an alien life form... And fuck it.
There has to be some sort of scientific explanation though |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:18:38 AM EDT
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God is causing the light to shift to test your faith.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:24:20 AM EDT
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Large chunks of dark matter bending the light away from us as they orbit the star.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:25:58 AM EDT
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That star has been discussed here before. On a certain level its depressing, but reassuring, if it really is a dyson sphere. A civilization advanced enough to require the energy from a dyson sphere yet unable to travel the cosmically short distance of 1000 light years to earth. You know what's even more depressing? Ask a handful of people "What is the closest star to Earth?"...I wouldn't have thought it possible for anyone to get that wrong but yet here I am suggesting it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:27:51 AM EDT
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It will be anything but an alien megastructure.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:28:14 AM EDT
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I'd go to their star. I'd be the first guy to make contact with an alien life form... And fuck it. There has to be some sort of scientific explanation though 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:28:22 AM EDT
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The star is broke yo... You know what's even more depressing? Ask a handful of people "What is the closest star to Earth?"...I wouldn't have thought it possible for anyone to get that wrong but yet here I am suggesting it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:29:11 AM EDT
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The star is broke yo... You know what's even more depressing? Ask a handful of people "What is the closest star to Earth?"...I wouldn't have thought it possible for anyone to get that wrong but yet here I am suggesting it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:31:06 AM EDT
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Notice the timing and frequency of press releases such as this? They are happening every day. 9th planet found here, 10th planet found here (source: https://www.space.com/37295-possible-planet-10.html) We are fastforwarding quickly to a full disclosure, and we are all going through a form of soft disclosure right now. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:34:13 AM EDT
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I would expect the most common answer is Alpha Centauri, though the sun is the closest star. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The star is broke yo... You know what's even more depressing? Ask a handful of people "What is the closest star to Earth?"...I wouldn't have thought it possible for anyone to get that wrong but yet here I am suggesting it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:34:29 AM EDT
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Only an extremely gullible person could possibly believe our government is capable of keeping anything secret. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:35:02 AM EDT
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Perhaps their seeming incompetence is all part of the act?
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:39:41 AM EDT
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Ed |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:39:52 AM EDT
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Imo such a civilization would come to earth study the inhabitants and turn around. Fuck that place! |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:41:09 AM EDT
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:47:29 AM EDT
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So it can't be a massive debris field like an Oort cloud on steroids ?
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:50:00 AM EDT
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:54:23 AM EDT
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:57:37 AM EDT
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That was a good read.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:57:40 AM EDT
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:57:41 AM EDT
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I figured that project was scrapped after all this time. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter. 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 12:58:49 AM EDT
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Webb won't be able to give us any new info on this star. It's not powerful enough to see anything, and we aren't going to leave it trained on the star to observe brightness changes when we already have a tool for that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This star fascinates the shit out of me. They need to put the Webb telescope into orbit asap. I'd pitch in if there were a kickstarter. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:00:16 AM EDT
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That star has been discussed here before. On a certain level its depressing, but reassuring, if it really is a dyson sphere. A civilization advanced enough to require the energy from a dyson sphere yet unable to travel the cosmically short distance of 1000 light years to earth. Well, an alien race that was building a dyson sphere 1000 years ago, anyway. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:00:26 AM EDT
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I would expect the most common answer is Alpha Centauri, though the sun is the closest star. 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:01:38 AM EDT
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Like anyone could fathom what the hell happens out there
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:03:53 AM EDT
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Imo such a civilization would come to earth study the inhabitants and turn around. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:04:42 AM EDT
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Nobody had better try to send a signal to it. I think SETI and stuff like that are insane.
I agree with Steven Hawking's take on it. Simply observe human history here on earth. Whenever a more technologically and scientifically advanced civilization makes contact with a less advanced civilization, what happens? It doesn't go well for the less advanced society. When the colonists found America, it didn't go well for the native americans. When Europe decided it wanted Africa's resources, it didn't go well for the Africans. When Australia was settled, it didn't go well for the aboriginals. If our little podunk species makes contact with a race that can travel between stars, how are we expecting it to go? There's no reason to think they would share their science and tech with us or establish diplomatic relations like some sci-fi movie. Best case scenario, they decide nothing on our planet is interesting to them and they refuse to interact with us. If we ever discover evidence of another civilization, we should be trying to hide from it, not talk to it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:05:28 AM EDT
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The crazy thing is if there are aliens, they have zero reason to engage with us on any level. Why? If a species is advanced enough to master star travel we have *nothing* to offer them, and are so far behind theirs our species would only be ever so mildly entertaining to a small subset of scientists that studied that sort of thing.
We would be to them as those stupid protected fish in little rivers are to our scientists. Nothing more than a curiosity. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:06:07 AM EDT
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Nobody had better try to send a signal to it. I think SETI and stuff like that are insane. I agree with Steven Hawking's take on it. Simply observe human history here on earth. Whenever a more technologically and scientifically advanced civilization makes contact with a less advanced civilization, what happens? It doesn't go well for the less advanced society. When the colonists found America, it didn't go well for the native americans. When Europe decided it wanted Africa's resources, it didn't go well for the Africans. When Australia was settled, it didn't go well for the aboriginals. If our little podunk species makes contact with a race that can travel between stars, how are we expecting it to go? There's no reason to think they would share their science and tech with us or establish diplomatic relations like some sci-fi movie. Best case scenario, they decide nothing on our planet is interesting to them and they refuse to interact with us. If we ever discover evidence of another civilization, we should be trying to hide from it, not talk to it. Why not? So they can receive it in 1300 years, decide to do something about it, and then send us hate mail back that we will get 2600 years from now? 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:11:02 AM EDT
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The crazy thing is if there are aliens, they have zero reason to engage with us on any level. Why? If a species is advanced enough to master star travel we have *nothing* to offer them, and are so far behind theirs our species would only be ever so mildly entertaining to a small subset of scientists that studied that sort of thing. We would be to them as those stupid protected fish in little rivers are to our scientists. Nothing more than a curiosity. 
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:11:55 AM EDT
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Why not? So they can receive it in 1300 years, decide to do something about it, and then send us hate mail back that we will get 2600 years from now? Aliens: "lol stfu normies rreeeeee!!!!1!1!!1" |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:17:54 AM EDT
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The star is broke yo... You know what's even more depressing? Ask a handful of people "What is the closest star to Earth?"...I wouldn't have thought it possible for anyone to get that wrong but yet here I am suggesting it. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:22:21 AM EDT
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Anybody that believes we are the smartest lifeform in the universe is Nancy Pelosi retarded.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:28:52 AM EDT
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Seeing as how we will probably never get there in the next 100 years (thats if we can manage 4.5% light speed) it is of little consequence to anybody beyond mere scientific curiosity. Whats depressing is to think of exactly how big space is and how far away our "nearest neighbor" is. Even at the speed of light it would be a nine year round trip and so far everything we know and understand about physics says light speed is impossible for anything with mass. There are a few creative workarounds that are only theoretical with varying opinions in the scientific community about their feasibility and even if they prove to be possible it would still require more energy than our sun produces to power any of them. Even if life is common we are still alone due to the vast distances. Not doable without time/space folding/ wormholes. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:30:53 AM EDT
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It's the alien version of 4chan. They are trolling us. "hey lets make a star blink like crazy so those stupid earthlings will think we have a Dyson sphere"
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:32:43 AM EDT
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I would expect the most common answer is Alpha Centauri, though the sun is the closest star. On topic, I love prospect of aliens, but I am willing to bet natural phenomenon to be the more likely explanation. No expert on that telescope, but the Star is quite distant and there could be all sorts of things distorting the view from our line of site or could be something that occurred recently (something off wall like a rogue planet that broke up. The star is interesting, but I would err on a natural explanation vs artificial. The saving grace for us I believe is how far we are. If something was capable of building a structure like that, we would be nothing compared to them. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:36:17 AM EDT
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Seeing as how we will probably never get there in the next 100 years (thats if we can manage 4.5% light speed) it is of little consequence to anybody beyond mere scientific curiosity. Whats depressing is to think of exactly how big space is and how far away our "nearest neighbor" is. Even at the speed of light it would be a nine year round trip and so far everything we know and understand about physics says light speed is impossible for anything with mass. There are a few creative workarounds that are only theoretical with varying opinions in the scientific community about their feasibility and even if they prove to be possible it would still require more energy than our sun produces to power any of them. Even if life is common we are still alone due to the vast distances. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:50:45 AM EDT
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Probably just an interstellar death ship approaching from in front of it, using the star's luminosity and irregular paterns as cover.
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:53:44 AM EDT
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Seeing as how we will probably never get there in the next 100 years (thats if we can manage 4.5% light speed) it is of little consequence to anybody beyond mere scientific curiosity. Whats depressing is to think of exactly how big space is and how far away our "nearest neighbor" is. Even at the speed of light it would be a nine year round trip and so far everything we know and understand about physics says light speed is impossible for anything with mass. There are a few creative workarounds that are only theoretical with varying opinions in the scientific community about their feasibility and even if they prove to be possible it would still require more energy than our sun produces to power any of them. Even if life is common we are still alone due to the vast distances. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 1:58:40 AM EDT
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Notice the timing and frequency of press releases such as this? They are happening every day. 9th planet found here, 10th planet found here (source: https://www.space.com/37295-possible-planet-10.html) We are fastforwarding quickly to a full disclosure, and we are all going through a form of soft disclosure right now. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 2:00:02 AM EDT
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I hadn't heard that, last I heard it was still a go. I could be wrong, but I'd be deeply disappointed. It's fully assembled and going through final vibration testing... hot and cold... vacuum... the last things they do before putting it on the rocket. It's supposed to launch later this year on an Ariane 5 out of French Guiana. Though the schedule might have slipped a bit recently because the French launch facility was shut down for about a month due to a labor dispute with the locals. ETA: just checked the latest launch date. October 2018... so... yeah that's slipped again. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 2:05:47 AM EDT
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That star has been discussed here before. On a certain level its depressing, but reassuring, if it really is a dyson sphere. A civilization advanced enough to require the energy from a dyson sphere yet unable to travel the cosmically short distance of 1000 light years to earth. |
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