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katsy

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26. Yet all an improvement

Reply to Rex (Reply #25)

Fri Oct 16, 2015, 01:09 PM

Oct 2015

over the gop

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The strange star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure [View all] Logical Oct 2015 OP

Maybe we finally found something besides mother nature? Rex Oct 2015 #1

I agree, a long shot but still interesting! nt Logical Oct 2015 #3

It's a Klingon battleship Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #23

That's fine, I'll take the Klingons over the Ferengi any day. Rex Oct 2015 #25

Yet all an improvement katsy Oct 2015 #26

True and no need to hide here, we all agree on that on DU. Rex Oct 2015 #29

I just hope they are not republicans Angry Dragon Oct 2015 #2

Haha! Basic LA Oct 2015 #5

Scientists are looking for signs of INTELLIGENT life!!!!! LongTomH Oct 2015 #13

It's an F3 main sequence star about three times as luminous as the Sun Fumesucker Oct 2015 #4

OBAFGKM longship Oct 2015 #6

You know you've been playing Elite:Dangerous... backscatter712 Oct 2015 #8

It had better be a fucking robust scoop. longship Oct 2015 #9

Oh you're not kidding. backscatter712 Oct 2015 #21

You can never play too much Elite:Dangerous! Rex Oct 2015 #30

There's no reason to suggest that any aliens there evolved in that solar system... Humanist_Activist Oct 2015 #7

That's what I meant by "came from somewhere else" Fumesucker Oct 2015 #22

True, its fun speculation though, I'm thinking dyson swarm. n/t Humanist_Activist Oct 2015 #27

Ring World! /nt Marr Oct 2015 #10

I think it is close to ridiculous to start speculating that the occasional ladjf Oct 2015 #11

Lighten up, the article even said it was a long shot. It was one possibility. nt Logical Oct 2015 #12

+1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #17

The people talking about it and doing the speculation are physicists. Rex Oct 2015 #31

Astronomer Phil Plait has also commented on this. Of Ccourse, he's skeptical; but....... LongTomH Oct 2015 #14

Interesting, thanks for posting!! nt Logical Oct 2015 #15

facinating! thanks for posting. will be interested to see if this star gets increased scurtiny Takket Oct 2015 #16

Good question. nt Logical Oct 2015 #20

Self reply... Read last night they want to point SETI at this system. Takket Oct 2015 #33

Could it be... ZX86 Oct 2015 #18

I agree, so does the article, long shot but still cool. nt Logical Oct 2015 #19

It's not just one item and there's no evidence of a regular orbit Fumesucker Oct 2015 #24

THATS NO MOON!! yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #28

Come on, am I really the first one who's going to post this? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 #32

Sorry, we dropped the ball :( Takket Oct 2015 #34

Seriously, it took 32 posts. Xyzse Oct 2015 #35

Thanks for posting Omaha Steve Oct 2015 #36

Love this stuff, long shot but still so cool! nt Logical Oct 2015 #37