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Whiskeytide

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6. Uh oh. I suspect the freedom caucus...

Thu Oct 15, 2015, 10:36 AM

Oct 2015

... will propose lifting death ray bans immediately. The only thing that can stop an alien with an energy based particle beam weapon is an earthling with an energy based particle beam weapon!

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Not CT, From Washington Post - serious scientists - alien megastructure [View all] RKP5637 Oct 2015 OP

To give an idea of scale.... jeff47 Oct 2015 #1

Maybe parts of a dim nebula are coming between us and the star occasionally. DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2015 #2

Nebulae don't move that fast. jeff47 Oct 2015 #3

A white dwarf would be smaller than Jupiter Fumesucker Oct 2015 #17

Hard for humans. Oneironaut Oct 2015 #23

It'd be easier with Replicator-styled robots, and doable even by humans. Decoy of Fenris Oct 2015 #36

If they are that advanced, we better shut up our radio presence asap. AngryAmish Oct 2015 #38

Well maybe these aliens are really, really, really, really, really, really big. ;-) (n/t) thesquanderer Oct 2015 #44

And with really, really, really, really, really, really, really big ideas, too! randome Oct 2015 #47

Obviously a Culture GSV, with some GCUs and such in orbit with it. Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #4

We'll just call this an excession, for now muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #7

Agreed. Lizzie Poppet Oct 2015 #8

I've used 3 Culture ship names for internet user names muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 #10

Well, if we've found the ringworld... JHB Oct 2015 #5

I'm worried about Consu. AngryAmish Oct 2015 #39

Uh oh. I suspect the freedom caucus... Whiskeytide Oct 2015 #6

With our luck aliens would turn out to be hifiguy Oct 2015 #27

from Wikipedia wheniwasincongress Oct 2015 #9

For those of you that have Stellarium (Free), you can find it by doing a search, in stellarium, BlueJazz Oct 2015 #11

Thanks! WOW! I just installed it for Linux. I put in TYC 3162-665-1 RKP5637 Oct 2015 #14

Run your mouse all the way to the left of your screen (about 4" from the bottom).. BlueJazz Oct 2015 #18

Thanks!!! This is incredible!!! So glad you posted this! RKP5637 Oct 2015 #19

Thank you. On the bottom of the screen there's the little icons. The far right on closes the program BlueJazz Oct 2015 #20

This is soooooooooo cool! I had absolutely no idea something like this RKP5637 Oct 2015 #21

Would you show me link to install it? dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #25

I run Linux Mint. I installed it from the sw search in Mint. It's similar to Ubuntu. RKP5637 Oct 2015 #42

Yay! I found it in my Ubuntu Softwaer package program dixiegrrrrl Oct 2015 #43

Great News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Oct 2015 #46

Yeah, an exciting possibility Bradical79 Oct 2015 #12

Yep, there is certainly some interesting stuff going on in this huge universe wherein RKP5637 Oct 2015 #13

Well, I sometimes tend to have a pessimistic outlook Bradical79 Oct 2015 #15

Yep, this is likely a very good way to look at it. I often think that without RKP5637 Oct 2015 #16

I would hope that if intelligent life has evolved hifiguy Oct 2015 #29

Sad DUers have to begin posts ''Not CT...'' due to fear of censorship or ridicule... Octafish Oct 2015 #22

Thanks Octafish! There is so much in the universe, so much going on. Yes, exactly RKP5637 Oct 2015 #24

Well, this universe is an awfully big and old place. hifiguy Oct 2015 #30

100 million earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Rex Oct 2015 #31

Evan reducing the parameters of the Drake Equation hifiguy Oct 2015 #32

True but does the equation take into account the extra dimension of time. Rex Oct 2015 #33

Time is a factor in it, hifiguy Oct 2015 #34

Interesting, thanks. Rex Oct 2015 #35

Things will really get interesting hifiguy Oct 2015 #37

I forgot about that! Rex Oct 2015 #40

It does make you want to scream, doesn't it. hifiguy Oct 2015 #41

If you read the actual paper, it doesn't even mention aliens. It think they're comets. frizzled Oct 2015 #26

I am not saying it is Ancient Alien Megastructures... Rex Oct 2015 #28

I think you meant to post THIS: mr goodbeer Oct 2015 #45