No need to worry, but alien megastructures spotted in a distant star

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Then we should definitely send a colony ship to take possession! "Damn, we were hoping you were dead."

I wonder if a space faring civilization can ever die out.

Since we have "discovered them" before they did us/ anything living can die...

 

[CavLancer]

Sure, I can die, you can die, and the entire planet Earth could die and take the human race with it if we nuked it enough. Spread a civilization across the galaxy and it requires the galaxy to die. Since the galaxy is still around I think its safe to say that so are they.

If so, of course they discovered us first. How could a civilization build such stuff and not know what's around them?

If they ever were, if this alien stuff around the star assumption is correct.

 

[Kyriakos]

What if the aliens are the actual 'alien megastructures'?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

They are probably us.

While this may have sounded like a joke, it wasn't.

If there is a 'they' then they were building something visible over intersteller distances 1500 years ago. That indicates they not only have tremendous technological capabilities so they are fully aware of our presence, but they have reason to be confident that anyone who sees what they are building is not going to get obnoxious with them. Since anyone with half a wit would take one look at us and immediately recognize how potentially obnoxious we are they have to have some good reason for not having just killed us out of hand.

Kinship. We are one of their early colonies.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Kinship. We are one of their early colonies.

or refugee camps. Maybe we're just their bad conscience and that's why they're looking away.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

or refugee camps. Maybe we're just their bad conscience and that's why they're looking away.

Prison planet? Their version of Australia? They are laughing at our current efforts at escape and standing by with an SRT if we start looking serious?

 

[Loppan Torkel]

Prison planet? Their version of Australia?

Could be anything. A paradise for the mentally 'inferior'? It must have been more humane to put us here than whatever alternative they had. I bet they're feeling a bit awkward about being discovered.

 

[JollyRoger]

The tricks they played on Adam, Noah, Moses, and Abraham were epic. Jesus must have been on to them.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Or they just just don't care because we're so far beneath them that we won't become a threat for at least another 100.000 years.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Or they just just don't care because we're so far beneath them that we won't become a threat for at least another 100.000 years.

While making up a decade here or there in a technology race is demonstrably possible, any gap of millennia is likely to do nothing but grow. We aren't going to catch up in 100,000 years...or ever...unless they stop or go backwards.

 

[El_Machinae]

That's not necessarily true. The Neanderthals were a few hundred thousand years ahead of humans.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That's not necessarily true. The Neanderthals were a few hundred thousand years ahead of humans.

In technology? How so?

 

[Leoreth]

Prison planet? Their version of Australia?

Earth confirmed for potential interstellar superpower.

 

[Hygro]

we are them

 

[illram]

While this may have sounded like a joke, it wasn't.

If there is a 'they' then they were building something visible over intersteller distances 1500 years ago. That indicates they not only have tremendous technological capabilities so they are fully aware of our presence, but they have reason to be confident that anyone who sees what they are building is not going to get obnoxious with them. Since anyone with half a wit would take one look at us and immediately recognize how potentially obnoxious we are they have to have some good reason for not having just killed us out of hand.

Kinship. We are one of their early colonies.

Well if we are speculating on the motivations of a hyper advanced alien civilization, there are a number of reasons they could have decided to avoid us so far, such as simply not yet requiring whatever resources our solar system has available, or maybe they are frantically building something to hide their presence from the galaxy in an effort to avoid destruction by the Agents of the Great Filter.

 

[Hygro]

burn baby

 

[Terxpahseyton]

There is stuff in front of a sun when usually there is no stuff in front of a sun.

Spoiler :

As much I as am eager as the next guy to be excited about such a discovery - eh, that is too transparently silly sensationalism, sorry :/

But props to the scientist for this publicity feat. Now every astronomer knows about his still scientifically interesting discovery. And since astronomy is struggeling for funding, they may not even hold the sensationalism against him.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

BTW who is this funny hair guy that always appears when somebody is talking about aliens?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Giorgio Tsoukalos. History Channel ancient aliens expert, and Swiss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_A._Tsoukalos

Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (Greek: Γεώργιος Α. Τσούκαλος; born March 14, 1978) is a Swiss-born Greek writer and television personality. He is a proponent of the idea that ancient alien astronauts interacted with ancient humans.[2] He is the Chairman and co-founder of Legendary Times magazine, which features articles from Erich von Däniken, David Hatcher Childress, Peter Fiebag, Robert Bauval, and Luc Bürgin on the topic of ancient astronauts and related subject matter.[2]

Tsoukalos is the director of Erich von Däniken's Center for Ancient Astronaut Research (the A.A.S. R.A.—Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association), and has appeared on The Travel Channel, The History Channel, the Sci-Fi Channel, the National Geographic Channel, as well as Coast to Coast AM, and is a consulting producer of the television series Ancient Aliens.[2]

Tsoukalos is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information and communication.[3] For several years in the early 2000s, before he made ancient astronaut research his primary career, he served as a bodybuilding promoter in IFBB sanctioned contests, including Mr. Olympia. He is fluent in English, Greek, German, French, and Italian.[2]

Tsoukalos is the host of the H2 series In Search of Aliens, which premiered on July 25, 2014.[4]

 

[Antilogic]

BTW who is this funny hair guy that always appears when somebody is talking about aliens?

It's Kyriakos.



Also, JR beat me to the Trump reference. Better start building hab-domes, and get the aliens to pay for them.

EDIT: Aww, cross-post.