There's a Scientific American article about that star that periodically dims. One of the claims struck me as strange:
"So what is blocking out the light from Tabby's Star? Well, an astronomer's kneejerk reaction is to try to concoct some model that might explain the observations. We've all been tossing out ideas. The trouble is that our ideas founder on the lack of infrared excess. We can imagine accretion disks with flaring edges, or complex multiple star systems with improbable orbits, or vast streams of super-giant comets, or dusty asteroid-asteroid collisions. But all of these require an infrared excess. This includes the suggestion that the dips in brightness might be caused by some partially-constructed artificial “Dyson Sphere” built by a very advanced civilization around the star."
http://ift.tt/22Zux0d
Wouldn't it be possible (in theory) to construct a mega-structure that converts excess heat energy to some other form of energy that we couldn't detect from this range?
"So what is blocking out the light from Tabby's Star? Well, an astronomer's kneejerk reaction is to try to concoct some model that might explain the observations. We've all been tossing out ideas. The trouble is that our ideas founder on the lack of infrared excess. We can imagine accretion disks with flaring edges, or complex multiple star systems with improbable orbits, or vast streams of super-giant comets, or dusty asteroid-asteroid collisions. But all of these require an infrared excess. This includes the suggestion that the dips in brightness might be caused by some partially-constructed artificial “Dyson Sphere” built by a very advanced civilization around the star."
http://ift.tt/22Zux0d
Wouldn't it be possible (in theory) to construct a mega-structure that converts excess heat energy to some other form of energy that we couldn't detect from this range?
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1WJ7kPR
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