Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:27:49 -0600 Message-ID: <569EE2AA.385E@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:28:10 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "alien megastructures" References: <569E9033.45E6@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-gC9CQQpin918ZxDe9uHATXHzr99y+1JTyOm/HvimeNLgfVDM8ZkBlMi+SiSlCOrMD+TS8yGhqWXNCPO!i1/QUkrvrYTj5i/ay3lZF6fi+/4FN1vc3muZM54ySh81AQDlyMhwoGCcyXSILbJ4uVBg07xlMDL5!okQ5KkcQhQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2010 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281324 sci.physics:546626 sci.physics.relativity:374433 rec.arts.sf.written:431555 Shawn Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 12:36:22 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > > What are "alien megastructures"? > > Alien = Intelligent non-human > > Mega = VERY large > > Structure = built thing/object > > There is a real astronomical image of a distant system that *seems* to have super-huge geometric structures around it. I mean Ringworld scale. Every not-crazy person thinks they are something natural, but odd-seeming rather than "yep, super powerful aliens right there..." Well, if you're going to break down in definitions... "..especially a complex of many buildings." https://www.google.com/#q=define+megastructures run by aliens from another planet. Are there a bunch of office buildings orbiting a planet somewhere? Is this what the 'scientific community' were talking about?? Is that what they believe???