TIL: That’s No Moon. It’s Aliens. (Maybe.) | Today I Learned

recently there’s been a lot of
excitement about this mysterious star
and the the k2 date of the Kepler space
telescope and data this star that has a
bizarre dip in the amount of lights that
reaches the earth there is a chance that
maybe the dip in the light is caused by
an alien mega-structure that’s being
constructed around this parent star and
that structure would then cause the
light to dip as it orbits the parent
star now this idea of giant alien mega
structures has been around for a long
time and basically the idea here is that
if you’re a growing civilization in a
solar system you want to capture all of
the energy from your parent star you
want to put solar panels or whatever in
a shell around that star so you can grow
and grow and not be limited by the
amount of energy and so there are some
out there that are speculating that
maybe what we’re seeing is one of these
advanced civilizations in the process of
building up this shell and the dips that
we’re seeing correspond to that shell
rotating in
of our view now this is a far out and
extraordinary hypothesis but it’s
something we can’t quite rule out yet so
the next step is that the SETI Institute
will use some of its radio telescopes to
see whether or not there are any radio
signals coming with messages for planet
Earth
I’m skeptical and I say probably not but
the little kid and make sure hopes it is
what’s going on