Um ... WHAT?!

[baron arem heshvaun]

Scientists have may have found some "interesting megastructures" orbiting a Star.

[Gisher]

Here is a more informative article on this topic.

[baron arem heshvaun]

Well it's either E.T. building casinos or Vic Wertz finally got some traction on The Death Star III project.

[Sissyl]

If WE can see them, THEY can see us. Um. Us as we were fifteen hundred years ago, anyway.

We need to start hiding in. Um. A thousand years or so.

[GreyWolfLord]

If they are building structures that big 1500 years ago...chances are they have advanced far further than that by now (or wiped themselves out).

I don't know, if could also be massive planets that we've never encountered or thought of before...and with various crazy orbits maybe they overlap each other at odd times.

Who knows the mysteries of the universe.

[Sharoth]

Interesting.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

Sissyl wrote:

If WE can see them, THEY can see us. Um. Us as we were fifteen hundred years ago, anyway.

We need to start hiding in. Um. A thousand years or so.

Huh. Turns out we weren't doing too much 1,500 years ago anyways....and in 1000 years, we still won't look particularly interesting.

[Freehold DM]

stockpiles guns and ammo, moves off the grid

[Sissyl]

Butbutbut... Why did they choose such a hopeless name for their star?

[John Woodford]

One catch is that it's a Type F star, with a maximum lifespan of about 7 GY. I'm thinking if you're capable of building a Dyson swarm, you'd be able to relocate your civilization to a longer-lived star before starting the big astroengineering projects.

[CBDunkerson]

Sissyl wrote:

If WE can see them, THEY can see us. Um. Us as we were fifteen hundred years ago, anyway.

We need to start hiding in. Um. A thousand years or so.

If what we are seeing is indeed an alien civilization, then we have only been able to detect them because they have constructed structures with significantly greater cross-sectional area than planets.

Thus, unless we start building structures of similar size, OR their detection abilities are significantly better than ours, we don't have much to 'worry' about... even assuming they would be hostile... and capable of reaching us.

[thejeff]

Definitely interesting and worth a further look. Chances are real low it's aliens, but more information will help us understand what's causing the weird variation and thus be useful anyway.

Also worth pointing a SETI style radio telescope out that way. Though a civilization up to building a pseudo Dyson sphere probably won't be doing a lot broadcasting any longer. (For values of "up to" and "any longer" set ~1500 years ago, which is when we're looking at.)

[thejeff]

CBDunkerson wrote:

Sissyl wrote:

If WE can see them, THEY can see us. Um. Us as we were fifteen hundred years ago, anyway.

We need to start hiding in. Um. A thousand years or so.

If what we are seeing is indeed an alien civilization, then we have only been able to detect them because they have constructed structures with significantly greater cross-sectional area than planets.

Thus, unless we start building structures of similar size, OR their detection abilities are significantly better than ours, we don't have much to 'worry' about... even assuming they would be hostile... and capable of reaching us.

If they're capable of building structures like that, the chances are good they're way ahead of us in detection capability too.

[Freehold DM]

thejeff wrote:

CBDunkerson wrote:

Sissyl wrote:

If WE can see them, THEY can see us. Um. Us as we were fifteen hundred years ago, anyway.

We need to start hiding in. Um. A thousand years or so.

If what we are seeing is indeed an alien civilization, then we have only been able to detect them because they have constructed structures with significantly greater cross-sectional area than planets.

Thus, unless we start building structures of similar size, OR their detection abilities are significantly better than ours, we don't have much to 'worry' about... even assuming they would be hostile... and capable of reaching us.

If they're capable of building structures like that, the chances are good they're way ahead of us in detection capability too.

I'm pretty sure they point and laugh at us regularly.

[Turin the Mad]

" Watching these young civilizations who think we don't have real-time observation capabilities is better than Funniest Home Videos! Tonight we're going through the 'Nuked Themselves Back to the Stone Age' pool! "

[Wei Ji the Learner]

"What is a flux capacitor? Is that anything like an aetheric defibrillator? And why did they only use the one? Is there something wrong with tampering with the time-stream to catch tomorrow night's game?"

[Ra, Alien Overlord]

I'm personally a big fan of the Egyptian Miniseries, those pyramids will never fly without the right engines.

Hilarious I tell you!

[Sissyl]

Turin the Mad wrote:

" Watching these young civilizations who think we don't have real-time observation capabilities is better than Funniest Home Videos! Tonight we're going through the 'Nuked Themselves Back to the Stone Age' pool! "

True. I am sure they have Heisenberg compensators too. I want one of those, btw.

[Divinitus]

That's pretty awesome... and has now possibly inspired me to create a recruitment for a space campaign in a few weeks.

[BigNorseWolf]

John Woodford wrote:

One catch is that it's a Type F star, with a maximum lifespan of about 7 GY. I'm thinking if you're capable of building a Dyson swarm, you'd be able to relocate your civilization to a longer-lived star before starting the big astroengineering projects.

Unless its the galactic empire version of detroit, you just moved there for the good transport and free energy and then not care when it goes boom

[Gisher]

Sissyl wrote:

Turin the Mad wrote:

" Watching these young civilizations who think we don't have real-time observation capabilities is better than Funniest Home Videos! Tonight we're going through the 'Nuked Themselves Back to the Stone Age' pool! "

True. I am sure they have Heisenberg compensators too. I want one of those, btw.

Are those the things that turn the meth blue?

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Divinitus wrote:

That's pretty awesome... and has now possibly inspired me to create a recruitment for a space campaign in a few weeks.

Let me know. That sounds fun.

[Celestial Healer]

Maybe it's the Citadel.

[Gisher]

Celestial Healer wrote:

Maybe it's the Citadel.

Don't tell Finn!

[Krensky]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

John Woodford wrote:

One catch is that it's a Type F star, with a maximum lifespan of about 7 GY. I'm thinking if you're capable of building a Dyson swarm, you'd be able to relocate your civilization to a longer-lived star before starting the big astroengineering projects.

Unless its the galactic empire version of detroit, you just moved there for the good transport and free energy and then not care when it goes boom

Or you choose to build your power station around the hot fast star because 7 billion years is longer than you'll need it anyway.