Astronomers may have found alien megastructures orbiting star near the Milky Way

[paradoxum]

Must be some insane "bones" to be supporting weight of creatures that large given structural rigidity needs goes up by cubing for ever size doubling.

[Spendulus]

Must be some insane "bones" to be supporting weight of creatures that large given structural rigidity needs goes up by cubing for ever size doubling.

An interesting question would be whether a mass of iron the size of a planet would naturally become a sphere.  Easy to prove that it would.  Then move to the most rigid material known of, and ask the same question.  I'm certain that it would.

Therefore, size constraints exist on non spherical structures.

And what we are talking about here is way, way beyond the size of a planet.

One might argue then, what of a solar sail, maintained against the light pressure from the star, exactly matching gravity?

This has been studied and is the subject of some patents.

[gogxmagog]

scientists are nerds and nerds want to believe in aliens. its speculation and not really science but mostly scientists like to throw provocative headlines like this out there because it can translate into funding.

[RodeoX]

scientists are nerds and nerds want to believe in aliens. its speculation and not really science but mostly scientists like to throw provocative headlines like this out there because it can translate into funding.

As a scientist I want to believe also, but there is not much science here. It's interesting. However it is a long way from discovering aliens.

[Pentax]

scientists are nerds and nerds want to believe in aliens. its speculation and not really science but mostly scientists like to throw provocative headlines like this out there because it can translate into funding.

most scientists I know are curious people by nature.  maybe that translates into wanting to believe, although there's a pretty fine line between that and simply acknowledging the possibility and exploring that within the limits of available information.

in this case I don't know that they launched the headline frenzy.  I've seen a range of headlines on this issue, from more moderated to crazy stuff.  that I lay at the feet of the click-baiters and media folk, moreso than the scientists- at least on this issue

I will agree that some of these guys can be funding whores.  not all, certainly, but I've seen some pump their cause more than a little to get that next grant.....

[chennan]

scientists are nerds and nerds want to believe in aliens. its speculation and not really science but mostly scientists like to throw provocative headlines like this out there because it can translate into funding.

Well I mean it could translate into funding, but remember that these guys who found it are working for a university and not, say, NASA... There might be a bit of funding from the university to do some more research into the matter, but I wouldn't think that they would be throwing millions of dollars toward them at all (not even close to that number probably).

[popcorn1]

scientists are nerds and nerds want to believe in aliens. its speculation and not really science but mostly scientists like to throw provocative headlines like this out there because it can translate into funding.

Aliens could be a lot closer than we think?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdr8wb4Ip2E

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD83dqSfC0Y

maybe this is what aliens do to hide there ships and planets but there 1000 years ahead in cloaking tech

[isvicre]

It must be giant donut spinning up and down. So that can cut sunlight.
I cannot think better explanation about this for now.
(irony here is: our newsmakers overrate everything.)

[tom555]

lets hope that sometime we will leave this greedy earth.. 

[BADecker]

lets hope that sometime we will leave this greedy earth.. 

There's lots of people in the cemeteries who wanted to stay, but couldn't.   

[Spendulus]

lets hope that sometime we will leave this greedy earth.. 

Agreed.  I want some of those greedy stars.

[ElEcTrOnEeZ]

Intelligent Aliens are smarter than the those energy gatherers, gathering energy from a sun by placing a giant antenna around it. This proves that this story is another hoax.

[Pentax]

Intelligent Aliens are smarter than the those energy gatherers, gathering energy from a sun by placing a giant antenna around it. This proves that this story is another hoax.

Maybe (probably) not an alien structure, but maybe not a hoax either.  The original statements from the scientists involved pretty clearly did NOT state it was an alien structure, but posited that it was odd data, which COULD be such and such.

The media has blown it up into what it is now.  "Alien Cruise Ship Rocks into the Milky Way" or whatever.

Odds are it is a natural thing that science just hasn't seen before and so doesn't have a data profile to match it to to determine "this is what it is"  Lots of unknowns out there and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface, so I would expect an endless stream of "WTF is that?" type things as we poke our noses out there and stumble across things we haven't seen before.

[Spendulus]

Intelligent Aliens are smarter than the those energy gatherers, gathering energy from a sun by placing a giant antenna around it. This proves that this story is another hoax.

Maybe (probably) not an alien structure, but maybe not a hoax either.  The original statements from the scientists involved pretty clearly did NOT state it was an alien structure, but posited that it was odd data, which COULD be such and such.

The media has blown it up into what it is now.  "Alien Cruise Ship Rocks into the Milky Way" or whatever.

Odds are it is a natural thing that science just hasn't seen before and so doesn't have a data profile to match it to to determine "this is what it is"  Lots of unknowns out there and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface, so I would expect an endless stream of "WTF is that?" type things as we poke our noses out there and stumble across things we haven't seen before.

It's obviously greedy capitalists.  Some corporation greedily taking 25% of the entire output of the star.  Think of the cold, miserable poor, left in the dark.  Who will care for them?

[chennan]

Intelligent Aliens are smarter than the those energy gatherers, gathering energy from a sun by placing a giant antenna around it. This proves that this story is another hoax.

Maybe (probably) not an alien structure, but maybe not a hoax either.  The original statements from the scientists involved pretty clearly did NOT state it was an alien structure, but posited that it was odd data, which COULD be such and such.

The media has blown it up into what it is now.  "Alien Cruise Ship Rocks into the Milky Way" or whatever.

Odds are it is a natural thing that science just hasn't seen before and so doesn't have a data profile to match it to to determine "this is what it is"  Lots of unknowns out there and we haven't even begun to scratch the surface, so I would expect an endless stream of "WTF is that?" type things as we poke our noses out there and stumble across things we haven't seen before.

It's obviously greedy capitalists.  Some corporation greedily taking 25% of the entire output of the star.  Think of the cold, miserable poor, left in the dark.  Who will care for them?

I hear the next big endeavor by trump is to create the "Trump Sphere" around the sun and can harvest 26.7% of the entire stars output... see that socialist!? Capitalism is hard at work, providing you, the consumer, a better/more high quality product of sustainable energy. 

[chant] 4 more years! 4 more years! [/chant]

[ridery99]

No Laser Signals Detected from 'Alien Megastructure' Star

It's looking less and less likely that a faraway star's strange dimming was caused by some kind of "alien megastructure."

http://www.space.com/31333-alien-megastructure-star-seti-search.html

[Beliathon]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html

Nuke from orbit

[enhu]

There are documentaries about aliens and most of them provide proof. not sure if its true though. one documentary states that we human are the alien in this planet 
The Nickola Tesla documentary said that Nickola has been communicating with aliens that is why his inventions are a lot sophisticated and he is far a head of his time.

[designerusa]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said. 

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told The Atlantic. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.” 

 

In the near future, they also want to try and point a radio dish in the direction of the star and see if they can detect any radio frequencies that a typical advanced civilization might use.  This could be absolutely nuts if they can somehow confirm this.

this is really interesting exploration .. when they prove this findings belong to an advanced civilization, this world genuinely will go crazy..

[notbatman]

Astronomers are either retards or liars, take your pick.