Mega structure found

[paulpablo]

I have a heavy dose of scepticism on the "alien structure" statements.

Very interesting, though.

This could be a case of me just being a cold hard pessimistic bastard, but to me it seems like a they're inserting aliens into this subject as a way to get attention or maybe funding or both.

This is what one astronomer said

"Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build," Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University in the US, told The Atlantic.

This is what another astronomer says about what was actually found

"Straight away, we know we’re not dealing with a planet here. Even a Jupiter-sized planet only blocks roughly 1 percent of this kind of star’s light, and that’s about as big as a planet gets. It can’t be due to a star, either; we’d see it if it were. And the lack of a regular, repeating signal belies both of these as well. Whatever is blocking the star is big, though, up to half the width of the star itself!"

So I don't see how this could "look" like something an alien civilisation would build.  First of all it doesn't "look" like anything, it's just a blockage of light bigger than what was initially expected.  Nowhere in any of the articles does it say anything beyond that, there's no blockage of light in the shape of anything, nothing was actually seen, it was just a reading of a measurement of light that was blocked, and it was bigger than expected.

Secondly (I'm no expert on astronomy or aliens so please correct me if you can point out a logical flaw in this logic) surely the bigger something is, the more likely it is to be natural and not made by a creature of intelligence.

The biggest objects human being create are a barely visible on earth from space, compare that to an object that sometimes blocks out "up to half of the width of the star itself"  The article even says  

 Even a Jupiter-sized planet only blocks roughly 1 percent of this kind of star’s light, and that’s about as big as a planet gets.

 
This quote from an astronomer on the article seems to be equating light blockage with size, I don't exactly know how that works but assuming it does work in the way he's suggesting then this would mean they're comparing something that blocks out 1% of light from the star (the largest type of planet we know of) with something that blocks out "up to half of the width of the star itself" 50% of light from the star.

This would mean the aliens are building an object at least 50 times bigger than the planet they live on. Or at least something that blocks out 50 times more light than the planet they live on.

Anyway to cut along story short, it seems to me they're basically making a boring story interesting by adding aliens. 
It worked on me, I wouldn't have bothered to look at an article that said "light blockage from star bigger than expected"

But "Light blockage from star, possibly an alien civilization"  Yeh I'll definitely read that.