Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) doesn't have a Dyson Sphere

[Anonymous No.9413910]

After a crowdfunding research, scientists found out dust is the most likely explanation for its weird dim and bright spotted by Tabetha Boyajian, who started the Kickstarter capaign.


>It makes them more interesting to professional astronomers, probably. But – to the rest of us – dust just can’t match an alien megastructure for glamor. Yet – as speculation about Tabby’s Star and an alien megastructure had its day – Tabetha Boyajian herself performed a service for astronomy and for those of us who love it. Her Ted Talk titled The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe drew many into astronomy’s wonderful perplexities. And Boyajian ran a heck of a good Kickstarter Campaign, giving people a chance to participate in science, and keeping those who donated informed every step of the way via frequent updates.

http://earthsky.org/space/kic-8462852-tabbys-star-no-alien-megastructure?mc_cid=fdf6a6a53c&mc_eid=79bffe19a0

[Anonymous No.9413914]

>>9413910
the absolute state

[Anonymous No.9413927]

The concept of a Dyson Sphere is so idiotic. Why would anyone construct such a thing? What would be the point? Are there not easier ways to get energy than building a structure that's so fucking big that it will probably be time to replace the first part you installed before you even fucking finish it?

[Anonymous No.9413934]

>>9413927
You don't need to wait for the whole thing to get finished to use a dyson swarm. From the second you release the first satellite, it will produce energy.

Building a dyson swarm makes more sense if you think of it just being a series of independent energy absorbing satellite launches over time which are all individually useful, which just happens to result in a swarm eventually

[Anonymous No.9413937]

My favorite part about stars is how they all seem to have an orbital plane conveniently relative to earth. Really makes it easy to discover extrasolar planets and transsolar debris
:')

[Anonymous No.9413992]

>>9413934

I suppose I can't fathom the benefit of building infrastructure in space because our underdeveloped species is stuck in this gravity well.

Will probably seem unremarkable to whoever is still here in 1000 years.

[Anonymous No.9414005]

>>9413992
It's not because you're stuck, it's just making the most out of a convenient nearby source of free energy which will last an extremely long time.

[Anonymous No.9414012]

>>9413910
>Dyson Sphere

What is this, the fucking 1940s? A Dyson Swarm is the latest actually plausible megastructure. Like anything from just energy harvesting devices to something akin to millions of colony structures (O'Neill cylinders for example.)

[Anonymous No.9414023]

>>9413937
...what?

[Anonymous No.9414175]

>>9413910
Thank Allah, I couldn't take it having an woman being the first person to discover alien life.

[Anonymous No.9414326]

>>9413937
They don't. You need to study lots of stars with the transit method to find transiting systems. Most do not.

[Anonymous No.9414397]

>>9414326
And too add to this, the transit method doesn't discover all of the planets in a system. It only works on planets that happen to cross between us and the target star during the period in which we were making observations, and even then works best with large planets. This means the method pretty much only detects large planets that orbit close to their star (close means smaller orbit = more transits during the period in which we are watching). Something like Neptune we would not be able to spot, even though Neptune is big, it's orbital period is like 160 years. So even if a Neptune-like planet transited a star we were watching, we wouldn't be able to determine if it was an orbiting planet or something else.

We can only detect an unknown subset of planets around a small subset of stars using the transit method.

[Anonymous No.9414403]

NO

NO NO NO NO NO

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BEGINNING OF FIRST CONTACT

THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE US ADVANCED AND GIVE US THE TECHNOLOGY TO HAVE ROBOT GFS AND I WOULD FINALLY LOSE MY VIRGINITY

FUCK YOU FUCKING TABITHA FUCK YOU I WANT CONTACT NOW

NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW

[Anonymous No.9414422]

>>9414403
if you want nice things you need to do it yourself
go be a lazy cuck somewhere else if you do not want to do anything

[Anonymous No.9414443]

>>9413910
>just dust

*audience booing*

[Anonymous No.9414500]

>>9414403
This star is 1000 lightyears away. If they are watching the earth right now they'd see a crusade. If they keep watching for a few hundred years they'll see a shit load of people die to the plague. Why would they come here after seeing that?

[Anonymous No.9414509]

>>9413927
This. Just dump matter into a miniature black hole and harvest the energy.

[Anonymous No.9415157]

>>9413927
Larry Niven wrote a great essay about this before you were born, concluded that all you would need would be a segment, called it Ringworld, wrote several novels about it, and now supposedly the TV-machines are going to show a dramatization of part of that.

[Anonymous No.9415794]

>>9413992
The Earth is in space :^)

Since basically all our energy is solar anyways it makes sense to go straight to the source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale