That bizarre-looking star just got a lot weirder

[Warden of the Northeast]

Very interesting...perhaps intelligent aliens?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bizarre-looking-star-just-got-210900508.html

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Has to be aliens.

 

[Urblock]

These guys have some really good weed. Get fucking stoned and fire up the big telescope. Awesome.

 

[Aesopian]

[video=youtube_share;mYHub2eUgrY]https://youtu.be/mYHub2eUgrY[/video]

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

These guys have some really good weed. Get fucking stoned and fire up the big telescope. Awesome.

Explain what they are seeing then.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Just building the Death Star.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Dust.

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[Warden of the Northeast]

Dust.

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It's not dust, they would have thought about that already.

 

[SilenceS]

Independence Day 2?

 

[Monster]

It's not dust, they would have thought about that already.

Angel dust

 

[SERE Bear]

I believe that intelligent life exists on other planets. I doubt this is a byproduct of that life. There is so much we dont understated about space that it's perfectly reasonably that other factors are causing this that we just dont understand.... Yet. If anything this is another reason that humans should be looking to exlpore & investigate space.

 

[BringBackDitka54]

I believe that intelligent life exists on other planets. I doubt this is a byproduct of that life. There is so much we dont understated about space that it's perfectly reasonably that other factors are causing this that we just dont understand.... Yet. If anything this is another reason that humans should be looking to exlpore & investigate space.

"1,500 lightyears away"... doesn't that mean that what we're seeing actually happened around 516 AD? If it is aliens, then they were much more advanced than us back then, and they would be much much more advanced than us today.

Also, I always find it slightly amusing how NASA sends electro magnetic radio waves into space to try to communicate with aliens... this is assuming that 1. Aliens want to communicate with us, and 2. other life-forms throughout space are using the same communication technology that we are.

The time frame in which humans have been actively searching space is so small, it's mind-blowing to think of how far we have to go before even understanding .01% of what's out there.

 

[Icculus]

Light years measures distance, not time.

 

[Monster]

I think he means the amount of time to cover that distance.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

"1,500 lightyears away"... doesn't that mean that what we're seeing actually happened around 516 AD? If it is aliens, then they were much more advanced than us back then, and they would be much much more advanced than us today.

Also, I always find it slightly amusing how NASA sends electro magnetic radio waves into space to try to communicate with aliens... this is assuming that 1. Aliens want to communicate with us, and 2. other life-forms throughout space are using the same communication technology that we are.

The time frame in which humans have been actively searching space is so small, it's mind-blowing to think of how far we have to go before even understanding .01% of what's out there.

Da ****? Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light years away so let's say you go the speed of a Space Shuttle it would take 165,000 years just to get there.

So to go 1500 light years it would roughly take 50.6 million years to get there going the speed of the space shuttle.

 

[remydat]

"1,500 lightyears away"... doesn't that mean that what we're seeing actually happened around 516 AD? If it is aliens, then they were much more advanced than us back then, and they would be much much more advanced than us today.

Also, I always find it slightly amusing how NASA sends electro magnetic radio waves into space to try to communicate with aliens... this is assuming that 1. Aliens want to communicate with us, and 2. other life-forms throughout space are using the same communication technology that we are.

The time frame in which humans have been actively searching space is so small, it's mind-blowing to think of how far we have to go before even understanding .01% of what's out there.

There aren't that many communication technologies out there that one could reasonably use that is standard across the universe. Hence why you use stuff like electro-magnetic radio waves because it's something that exists all over the universe and so you don't have to worry about some sort of communication barrier or using some advanced mechanism that would require the person receiving it to be at a similar level of advancement.

Light years measures distance, not time.

It took 1,500 years for the light to reach here so that means it left the star 1,500 years ago so Ditka is correct. Anytime you look at light, you are looking into the past. Even the Sunlight you see is actually from 8.3 minutes ago from the time you are seeing it.

 

[remydat]

Da ****? Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light years away so let's say you go the speed of a Space Shuttle it would take 165,000 years just to get there.

So to go 1500 light years it would roughly take 50.6 million years to get there going the speed of the space shuttle.

You are confusing things. The effect being observed is fluctuations in light from a star 1,500 years ago so the speed of a human Space Shuttle is irrelevant because the light being seen is traveling at the speed of light not the speed of a man made space shuttle. So Ditka is correct, the light we are seeing is from 1,500 years ago because that is the time it took that light to reach us here.

That is precisely why light is used to measure distance in space because its speed is constant. The speed of a Space Shuttle would fluctuate based on the technology of the civilization that built it.

 

[NCChiFan]

Da ****? Alpha Centauri is only 4.3 light years away so let's say you go the speed of a Space Shuttle it would take 165,000 years just to get there.

So to go 1500 light years it would roughly take 50.6 million years to get there going the speed of the space shuttle.

Someone should probably leave a note... "Dear residents of the year 50,602,016, you might be seeing visitors soon. Sincerely, concerned citizen of 2016."