Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.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: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 02:14:56 -0600 Message-ID: <569F4219.6539@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:15:21 -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> <569EE2AA.385E@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-2aMR0J5/EHMlQo9bP/wVkaD7g3CzbvK5oYFW7OLt64DyQkHZN6Kd9EeGCNxyeGq9KijoBwOLbv5hz0v!+ixb7bvOSJSKxekCq40m8jyXSDs8Bd4KenhFzWVFg0R9OZ6kGypQebX3bbtlAU1pM8KpdUmoFtCk!b1266N2fRQ== 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: 2385 X-Received-Bytes: 2497 X-Received-Body-CRC: 476453866 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281334 sci.physics:546684 sci.physics.relativity:374469 rec.arts.sf.written:431578 The Starmaker wrote: > > 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??? Top scientist can’t rule out ‘ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE’ is orbiting distant star A NOBEL prize-winning scientist is still searching for a reasonable explanation for the supposed ‘alien megastructure’ orbiting a distant star. What does a ‘ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE’ look like?