(November 22, 2024 at 12:06 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: The fastest-moving stars in the galaxy may be piloted by intelligent aliens, new paper suggests
Given the enormous distances between the stars, however, interstellar travel is tremendously difficult and time-consuming. So, instead of leaving their system, an intrepid alien species might decide to take their system with them. The main advantage of accelerating their own star would be that they get to keep it with them as they travel. They would do this by causing their star to either radiate or evaporate in just one direction, which would propel the star, along with all of its planets, to a new location in the galaxy.
Astronomers have investigated whether "hypervelocity" stars (which, as their name suggests, are stars with an extraordinarily high velocity) may have been purposefully launched by alien civilizations, but the known candidates show no signs of artificial interference.
In a recent paper, Clement Vidal, a philosopher at the Vrije University Brussels in Belgium, pointed out that most stars are not solitary but rather belong to binary systems. This means we might be missing half of the potential artificially accelerated stars. Even better, binary systems offer many advantages over their solo counterparts, Vidal wrote in his paper, which has not been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.
https://www.livescience.com/space/extrat...r-suggests
(December 4, 2024 at 5:16 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: FBI is seeking public assistance to solve mystery drones over NJ
They should check the local high schools. Meddling kids…
Boru
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