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Kardashev, type II October 15, 2015 9:30 am RL

Continuing an earlier thread of mine from a while back…

 

This is almost certainly a false alarm, but it’s exactly how you would expect discovery of ETI to happen.

 

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/

 

The paper on the Kepler data:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf

  • http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/09/nix-the-aliens-nasa-space-telescopes-provide-an-answer-to-enduring-mystery-of-tabbys-megastructure-star-the-dips-found-b.html "The dips found by Kepler are real. Something seems to be transiting in front of this star and we still ... by RL 2017-09-10 10:37:59
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                        • Thanks for posting this. by ER 2015-10-15 11:47:54
                          • Some classic media hype out there by Robert 2015-10-15 11:32:36

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