Tabby's Star (seriously its aliens)

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mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

as a socially-liberal fiscally-conservative american i only care if we can exploit these aliens for their natural resources

# ¿ May 23, 2017 20:53

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 06:36

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Hodgepodge posted:

is it too soon to begin talking about free trade with tabby's star? the aei argues,

President Clinton signs the Tabby's Star Free Trade Agreement

# ¿ May 23, 2017 21:09

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Hodgepodge posted:

If they built a Dyson swarm, they survived long enough to be able to create artificial planets to harvest energy from their star, and would be capable of at least some form of colonization. It would be pretty likely that they're still around.

A civilization like that existing would be incredibly inspirational. It's hard to be a pessimist in a universe where one exists.

I'll give it a shot

# ¿ May 24, 2017 00:13

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

mister magpie posted:

I'll give it a shot

yep, still a pessimist

# ¿ May 24, 2017 00:13

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

can we have sex with t hese aliens or are they beyond corporeal bodies

# ¿ May 24, 2017 02:49

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

Baloogan posted:

if they are anything like i imagine they want to have sex with you but you very much don't want to have sex with them.

you have a weird imagination

# ¿ May 24, 2017 03:09

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

my imaginary aliens are very fuckable

# ¿ May 24, 2017 03:09

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

have you seen the hit film Avatar by James Cameron

# ¿ May 24, 2017 03:10

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

rudatron posted:

The dimming is short lived and a large enough dyson swarm would habe no reason to be clumped up like that, since it orbits close to the star

So if it is aliens, then its more likely to be large sollar collectors near their home planet or other planetary colonization

Which means they only just recently got into space, when the light was transmitted, so their tech can't be too different from ours

So if the spectra shows the presence of a lot of metals, or maybe carbon allotropes, then you have aliens

If you have oxides/water/dust, you have a planetary collision

Also the dimming has already ended https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/866677994173198336

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# ¿ May 24, 2017 16:57

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

do they have ovipositors? asking for a friend

# ¿ May 24, 2017 18:17

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

ymgve posted:

thanks to google embedding images on the search page, I now know there ovipositor dildos, complete with slimy eggs

Hodgepodge posted:

orbipositors

# ¿ May 24, 2017 23:51

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 06:36

mags: May 30, 2008; I am a congenital optimist.

AstheWorldWorlds posted:

Past tense, were about the same level as us in a simple satellite type of scenario. What we are seeing was about 1200 years ago.

Iirc the amount of objects needed to reduce the luminosity of tabbys star would be staggering, which is why a Dyson cloud/megastructure was proposed as a non-natural explanation. I think that would rule out just a large amount of satellites near their planet.

It's clearly the remains of one of the moons of Cybertron

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# ¿ May 25, 2017 03:35

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