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Dyson Sphere under construction?
#11
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
It's a possibility and one the scientists looked at but it should be associated with an Infra-red signature, that is lacking according to the data from the Nordic Optical Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide Field IR Survey Explorer.
It's too old to be a coalescing disc.
The next candidate is a swarm of comets several times larger than the entire mass of the Kuiper Belt.
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#12
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
My money's on this guy:

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#13
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
My gut feeling is that the dimming of Tabby's star is too erratic to come from a Dyson swarm construction...
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#14
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
If only we could send somebody to find out. There are plenty of people I'd nominate for a one way trip to the star. Can't we send Donald Trump there? If there are aliens he can show them how to play golf and build a hotel there I guess.

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#15
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
I think we need to consider the possibility that we are the elder race of this galaxy.
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#16
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
(January 12, 2017 at 10:48 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think we need to consider the possibility that we are the elder race of this galaxy.

Are we really at a stage to consider anything when we haven't even actually stepped outside our own solar system?

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#17
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
Aoi Magi Wrote:
Mister Agenda Wrote:I think we need to consider the possibility that we are the elder race of this galaxy.

Are we really at a stage to consider anything when we haven't even actually stepped outside our own solar system?

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We should consider that if we don't go out there, maybe no one will.
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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
(January 12, 2017 at 10:14 am)ReptilianPeon Wrote: If only we could send somebody to find out. There are plenty of people I'd nominate for a one way trip to the star. Can't we send Donald Trump there? If there are aliens he can show them how to play golf and build a hotel there I guess.

You really want the Trumpenführer to be Earth's first contact ambassador? We'd be turned into a hyperspace express route before you can say 42.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#19
RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
On the SETI front; Breakthrough Listen observations (Greenbank Observatory) carried out 8hrs per night for 2 Months from the end of October, (So Nov-Dec) data gathered aprox 1 petabyte, analysis expected to take a month, so results should show up in Feb.

I'm also seeing stuff regarding some sort of Phase Transition, though I'm not sure how that applies to a main sequence star.
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
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