Astronomers may have found Aliens

Tefal · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:28

lets face it its some rocks.

antijoke · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:40

Tefal said:
lets face it its some rocks.

Pretty much. I expect nothing to come of this.

Avenged7Fold · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:46

^

Yup

But the Starship Troopers and butt probe references made this thread worth it.

Spook187 · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:47

Posted this a few times when these type of threads crop up, a very decent read with the types of scenarios we would be faced with.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4462

Jamauk · 16 Oct 2015 at 09:55

Armageddon?...

Actually no, I bet this is where ET came from, well now at least we can "send them back"!

Avenged7Fold · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:36

Put up a wall!

Damn space immigrants going round and shooting all the jobs.

jimjamuk · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:50

We have only been around for a spec of time so I doubt we are the first - if anything I wonder any of the dinosaur's of that era would have evolved into intelligent life had they not been wiped out. They would have had a good couple of hundred million years of evolution head start on us if we were both left to evolve without extinction events.

antijoke · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:56

jimjamuk said:
We have only been around for a spec of time so I doubt we are the first - if anything I wonder any of the dinosaur's of that era would have evolved into intelligent life had they not been wiped out. They would have had a good couple of hundred million years of evolution head start on us if we were both left to evolve without extinction events.

They look like this:

Jamauk · 16 Oct 2015 at 10:57

Quick, back to the Tardis...

antijoke · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:33

BBC have an artists impression of first contact:

dacads · 16 Oct 2015 at 11:41

spoffle said:
This is a myth that people still cling on to

It's the truth

anticonscience said:
They look like this:

inb4 reptilian government

Dugganator · 16 Oct 2015 at 12:46

ThePirateHulk said:
But if they looked at us now they would not see a species that can but things into orbit. They'd see us as we were in 500AD.

They would see the light from that period not a freeze framed picture of earth from 500AD

sityeuropa · 17 Nov 2016 at 18:06

I still find this star fascinating. Is Kepler still monitoring stars?

MeEsH BaKkA · 17 Nov 2016 at 18:13

sityeuropa said:
I still find this star fascinating. Is Kepler still monitoring stars?

Not as closely as you monitor year old threads it seems.

Jokester · 17 Nov 2016 at 18:20

sityeuropa said:
I still find this star fascinating. Is Kepler still monitoring stars?

It is indeed interesting, and oddly gone quiet about it since the original news despite further studies showing this star has shown to have dimmed considerably over the years which could be further evidence of a Dyson sphere being built round it.

LOAM · 17 Nov 2016 at 18:41

http://www.popsci.com/could-black-hole-be-blocking-light-from-that-alien-megastructure-star

One theory is that it could be a nearby black hole

Rozzy85 · 17 Nov 2016 at 19:20

I got excited for a minute then and thought we had actually found the Ayy's this time as the thread had tonnes of replies but it was just necroed.

shaank · 17 Nov 2016 at 20:07

anticonscience said:
I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill em all.

You will make a fine citizen. Now just place your hand on this wall soldier.

koolpc · 17 Nov 2016 at 20:10

Astronomers had their telescopes trained on OcUK shop and saw loads of aliens working in there! lol

Rroff · 17 Nov 2016 at 20:19

LOAM said:
http://www.popsci.com/could-black-hole-be-blocking-light-from-that-alien-megastructure-star

One theory is that it could be a nearby black hole

The debris disc from a black hole seems like the more credible theory - quite a range of potential theories for that which don't all require the disc to be bigger than anything we've seen before.