By the way are “they” always right? it is still early but here are some recent thoughts:
So what the hell was it then? The potential answers ranged from a mass of orbiting space junk, or an oddly shaped star, all the way to an alien-made, solar-energy-harvesting Dyson swarm and, as you can imagine, the latter resulted in a whole lot of public interest.
It also caused scientists from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to promptly point an array of 42 radio telescopes at the mysterious star, in order to look and listen for any signs of alien life.
“If astroengineering projects are really underway in the vicinity of KIC 8462852, one might reasonably expect the presence of spacecraft to service this activity. If these craft are propelled by intense microwave beams, some of that energy might manifest itself as broadband radio leakage.”
Well it has been two weeks and they haven’t detected any of these signs like radio leakage. Although that is a very brief time period. What do you think is there something there?
thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info
thanks to Anders Sandberg for the pic
And here is a video with some other perspectives about the discovery. Keep checking back for updates.
might be too far away. if there is life there and they have electromagnetic technology, it will not be as strong as the energy produced by their host star.
It’s not an alien civilization, it’s a cosmic “buoy”.
If the advanced, they may have 100% energy conversion with no thermal energy loss. And they my communicate using quantum or other technology too advanced to be detected.
Or there dead
I doubt we’ll ever find another actually intelligent life form coincidentally existing at the same time out there. If we ever get into some Sci if travel level tech 100s of years from now ruins or fossils etc will probably be it.
Actually one of the most plausible explanation for not finding life. Especially if they never travel outside there system.
I’m sure somewhere there’s civilizations that are millions of years old. Problem is there too far away or would rather ignore us.
Open contact won’t happen till we reach a technical point they would won’t to check us out.
I think nuclear power has brought them to look, but until we actually leave are system they won’t bother too much with us.
If they do visit it’s to look at the naked monkeys like a novelty
With the way luck seems to not work, watch us finally attain something close to world peace, free and abundant energy sources etc, then wham gamma ray burst from something that’s the next door neighbor astronomically speaking, completely sterilize the earth never to see life again. No real way to prepare for or see that kind of thing coming. It’s really a race to get off planet if there’s ever any chance. If we ever did make anything resembling contact with something actually alive, it won’t be like oh we found this planet with life, but more like a random encounter with something nomadic. Most likely the machines of some long dead technologically advanced species.
Scientists have no idea what they are observing. Lol! They dont even know if black holes are real or not. They change their mind on stuff every year while the scriptures of Gods wird hasnt changed over 6 million years.
Even if it is an alien structure, the civilization and/or species that built it may no longer exist.
Wow…
Not even once, amirite????
Old idiocy trumps new evidence because it hasn’t been rewritten, even though it has? NEAT!
Even if it did “show life” it would be from light years past j/s