Alien Massive Megastructure ?

[Esote]

Kepler Space Telescope gives scientists a cosmic mystery to solve :
Nearly fifteen hundred light years star from Earth brakes all the rules, says Michio Kaku.
The shadow of something huge is blocking part of the light from this star.
Discovered six years ago, every possibility has been studied without an answer :

• Disintegrated comets orbiting star
• Debris from inside an asteroid belt
• Debris from a planetary collision

But it doesn't fit, because it would block about 1% at maximum of the star light, when it is actually 22% which is blocked.
What's left is : Artificial mega-structures, perhaps made by a civilization a few thousand years more advanced than ours...
Could it be the biggest story of past 500 years ?

https://vid.me/Q5C3

Didn't see any topic about this phenomenon, sorry if it has been posted somewhere already

 

[Nienna]

There was an article posted about this on SOTT on 20/10/15 in case you're interested in reading it.

http://www.sott.net/article/304328-Astronomers-launch-search-for-ET-in-potential-alien-megastructure

 

[Laura]

I read about it and didn't think too much of their solution since astronomers are more often wrong than right about distant things.

 

[Esote]

I read about it and didn't think too much of their solution since astronomers are more often wrong than right about distant things.

Actually the only thing they know for sure is that they don't understand this weird and quite interesting phenomenon, which could bring new clues about our universe. Wait and see...

 

[Buddy]

I read every word of the article, but my take is that the only thing said was that a set of measurements of a dip in starlight have been taken and the regularity of these dips has yet to be determined.

 

[Esote]

I read every word of the article, but my take is that the only thing said was that a set of measurements of a dip in starlight have been taken and the regularity of these dips has yet to be determined.

What does mean 'dip' in this case, Buddy ? Inclination ?

By the way, why not asking the C's in the next session ?

And thank you Nienna for the link.

 

[Alfisti]

Professor Brian Cox was talking about this on BBC 6 Music this morning. He stated that:

The structures are triangular
It may possibly be a Dyson Sphere or something even more exotic
The likelihood of alien civilization should not be surprising given the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone
He wouldn't be surprised if it was an alien phenomenon, or at the existence of advanced alien civilizations
"Conspiracy nuts going on about cover ups" don't appreciate that scientists are publishing their data on unknown phenomena

I think that this is genuinely intriguing and quite exciting!

 

[Buddy]

I read every word of the article, but my take is that the only thing said was that a set of measurements of a dip in starlight have been taken and the regularity of these dips has yet to be determined.

What does mean 'dip' in this case, Buddy ? Inclination ?

Hi Eos. By 'dip' I mean that I'm visualizing a break in the stream of photons arriving at the eyeball. On a linear graph, this dip would be a downward direction of a line representing a measurement of some magnitude.

I should probably clarify something. The way I model my understanding of the Universe, I think that statistically, it's not only possible, but probable that there is other life and other life forms - especially humanoid, elsewhere in the Universe. Also, this is like a belief that comes from the model itself and is not a standalone internalized viewpoint.

Also, I think so much that comes out of science these days is hocus-pocus, so I don't automatically connect my personal beliefs to anything that is said from that quarter. Like Kaku says in the video, "well, we don't know," and yet somehow "this could be the biggest story of the decade." Whatevers. We'll see.

 

[Cyre2067]

It's quite a leap to go from 'blurry starlight' to 'Alien megastructure harvesting the star'. We just don't know what it is or what's causing the dip. I'm guessing that headline was used to sell clicks, or in other words generate ad revenue.

 

[striveforselflessness]

From the article: "Those dips are usually caused by planets passing between our view and the planet's host star."

And then they go on to say but no that's not true in this case. What if it is? 22% blocked? Perhaps that star has its own massive dark companion, bigger than NASA is generally used to, blocking it at this time?

Wouldn't it also make sense if there were several things between us and the star, not as massive as the faraway star, but just closer to us? I know that's unlikely since things in space are very dispersed, but unlikely doesn't necessarily mean it never happens. As it says, "could be comets" (maybe some closer to us, in the way of the view?)

(Or a technological glitch, or a combination of the above leading to a perceived triangular shape)

In any case fun to speculate. Maybe it is a massive alien structure. I have no stake.