It's Aliens ... Maybe ... Probably not but, still a real possibility
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Did anyone follow / remember that odd star our Kepler Satellite found?
It's called KIC 8462852, and The Atlantic did a good article on it in October
A bunch of Blog and theorists picked up and it and everyone jumped on Aliens since we can't think of a natural cause. Talk of Dyson Speheres etc etc. Anyway a paper was published in November that described the possibility of it being a group of super comets . This obviously rained on everyone's alien parade.
That is until yesterday / Today when a new paper came out. http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03256
It's more easily explained here: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=34837
Basically ... Not only are we seeing weird unexplainable dips in light, but we're also seeing a constant and accelerated rate of dimming just about killing the comet theory and breathing new life into the Aliens theory.
So it's either a Dyson Sphere or it's something natural we've never observed. I'm clinging to the Dyson Sphere hopes.
It's called KIC 8462852, and The Atlantic did a good article on it in October
In 2011, several citizen scientists flagged one particular star as “interesting” and “bizarre.” The star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching.
The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. That would be expected if the star were young. When our solar system first formed, four and a half billion years ago, a messy disk of dust and debris surrounded the sun, before gravity organized it into planets, and rings of rock and ice.
But this unusual star isn’t young. If it were young, it would be surrounded by dust that would give off extra infrared light. There doesn’t seem to be an excess of infrared light around this star.
It appears to be mature.
When I spoke to Boyajian on the phone, she explained that her recent paper only reviews “natural” scenarios. “But,” she said, there were “other scenarios” she was considering.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.
A bunch of Blog and theorists picked up and it and everyone jumped on Aliens since we can't think of a natural cause. Talk of Dyson Speheres etc etc. Anyway a paper was published in November that described the possibility of it being a group of super comets . This obviously rained on everyone's alien parade.
That is until yesterday / Today when a new paper came out. http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03256
It's more easily explained here: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=34837
Basically ... Not only are we seeing weird unexplainable dips in light, but we're also seeing a constant and accelerated rate of dimming just about killing the comet theory and breathing new life into the Aliens theory.
So it's either a Dyson Sphere or it's something natural we've never observed. I'm clinging to the Dyson Sphere hopes.
This is still alive and still stumping scientists. It's not comets or space dust. A planet only explains a dip in luminosity of about 1% and this thing dips up to 20% and in erratic behaviors. I'm still on the Dyson Sphere hope train, though admittedly, the only thing we're likely to prove is that it's not caused by any known natural phenomenon. Meaning it could still be an unknown natural phenomenon and not an advanced alien civilization that created this dyson sphere.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100319-triple-signal-of-alien-megastructure-star-baffles-astronomers/
Still ... it's gotten space nerds to abuzz that they raised the $100,000 needed to watch the thing for a year.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100319-triple-signal-of-alien-megastructure-star-baffles-astronomers/
Still ... it's gotten space nerds to abuzz that they raised the $100,000 needed to watch the thing for a year.
A successful crowdfunding campaign earlier this year raised over $100,000, allowing astronomers to secure time at the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, where they can observe the star for a year.
The hope is that Tabby’s star will soon drastically dim and they will be able to swing different ground-based and space-based observatories towards it. Catching a transit in as many wavelengths as possible should help pin down what is interfering with the star – be it a swarm of comets, an alien megastructure, or something else entirely.
it's a dyson sphere bro
you want your mind blown, go read up on Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
That was really cool. Gonna read all the articles now.
you want your mind blown, go read up on Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
And the amount of dust needed is more than Tabby's Star should produce. It is a main sequence star — middle-aged, so to speak, neither forming nor dying. “The star could be, essentially, burping out this material,” Ellis said. “But that’s way too much activity for a star of this type.”
Even with a natural cause for its dips, Tabby's Star has not lost its exceptional status. Nor does this work eliminate some other, unknown possibility that astronomers have not thought of yet, Boyajain said.
“We are not done,” Ellis said. “We are certainly not done with this star yet.”
They don't know. It ain't fuking dust. Y'all think dust gonna block out 20% of a stars light, when Jupiter as said in article blocks out 1%? You know how fuking big Jupiter is?
Back to the board they go. Dust
Yeah but the Seti news is kinda disheartening. If there was a massive Dyson Sphere there, one would assume some form of signal could be heard.
I don't put a lot of stock into that. Everything is based on our understanding of how we *think* the universe works. They could be on a completely different communication line and we wouldn't know, because it doesn't fit our understanding of how communication works.
Just like I'm pretty sure there's life on Europa and Titan. We've only explored like 1% of our oceans, but think we can identify fuking "dust" that's blocking 20% of a stars light output
Just like I'm pretty sure there's life on Europa and Titan. We've only explored like 1% of our oceans, but think we can identify fuking "dust" that's blocking 20% of a stars light output
By DY_nasty Go To Postits lit smokey
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pilots-report-close-encounters-ufo-arizona-passed-us/story?id=54067123
There was a second pentagon release too IIRC???? I think a lot of people thought it was a repeat report of the first.