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Space.com-Kepler's 'Alien Megastructure' Star Just Got Weird

Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:57 pm
by Murdock
This was too good not to link to...

http://www.space.com/33674-alien-megast ... irder.html
space.com wrote:All this uncertainty has only boosted speculation surrounding the (unnatural) explanation: that an advanced alien civilization is building some kind of Dyson Sphere-like structure around a star to (perhaps) collect solar energy for all of its energy consumption needs. In this scenario, pieces of the alien array are passing in front of the star, causing the anomalous transit signal. Of course, scientists being a rational bunch think there's a more likely explanation for the light-curve, but aliens will always hog headlines.