• Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' or ring-world orbiting star in Milky Way.
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[quote] [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Halo3_ark-and-halo-reborn.png[/img] A star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope may harbour structures which could point to an advanced technological civilisation. A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said. Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report. "I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Wright told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build." The snappily named KIC 8462852 star lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets. But KIC 8462852 was emitting a stranger light pattern than any of the other stars in Kepler’s search for habitable planets... [B]Source:[/B] [url]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html[/url] [/quote] Could actually be something.
This sounds too cool to be real, but the SETI team is gonna check it out in January so we'll see more then.
[QUOTE=Saxon;48907687]This sounds too cool to be real, but the SETI team is gonna check it out in January so we'll see more then.[/QUOTE] Would the SETI team even find anything? If we're dealing with an alien civilization capable of Dyson megastructures, they might not be using communications technology we can pick up.
Too bad we have to wait till enough dishes are open to point at this thing
[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;48907724]Would the SETI team even find anything? If we're dealing with an alien civilization capable of Dyson megastructures, they might not be using communications technology we can pick up.[/QUOTE] I would imagine a civilization so advanced like that would think to use less advanced communications in thinking there could be less advanced civilizations out there to talk to, like us.
I want to believe, but my heart is too jaded. [editline]15th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48907741]I would imagine a civilization so advanced like that would think to use less advanced communications in thinking there could be less advanced civilizations out there to talk to, like us.[/QUOTE] I once read an article that explained that aliens are out there, but we're so far beneath them that they don't even acknowledge us. Like, you wouldn't acknowledge ants on your way out to the mailbox
Publicity stunt for halo 5 calling it now.
We already have a thread on this: [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1489529[/url]
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