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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 5:59 am
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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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 7:54 am
My money's on this guy:
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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 8:56 am
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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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 10:14 am
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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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 10:48 am
I think we need to consider the possibility that we are the elder race of this galaxy.
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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 4:39 pm
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 5:28 pm
(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.
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RE: Dyson Sphere under construction?
January 12, 2017 at 10:56 pm
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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.
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