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>> No. 3971 Anonymous
15th October 2015
Thursday 11:05 pm
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html

This would have made me excited once but for some reason I'm hoping it's just a weird natural formation. I don't want to live in a SF universe, I'm quite comfortable in this sort of reality. Aliens could make things very scary and complicated.
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>> No. 3972 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 2:45 am
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I'd rather it was true personally. Don't worry though, it's pretty much bollocks.
>> No. 3973 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 7:06 am
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I would advise that scientists aren't above making slightly outlandish claims for media attention and fat stacks of cash money. Not outright lies, but just a little hype talk to get people interested and invested.

Having said that, my ITZcon gauge has still moved to 4.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6JK3fhYE1w

I'm gunning in the Wharthog this time. I spend 7 damn years driving my idiot friends around.
>> No. 3974 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 7:35 am
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Hopefully this will spur NASA to get a fucking move on with building a dyson sphere. Got to keep up appearances lads.
>> No. 3975 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 8:43 am
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Hopefully it's tech from a dead civilisation that leaves us in a classic SF state of advancement, so I can live my lifelong dream of being a space pilot. Elite IRL.

If it's actually live aliens though, who are intelligent in the way we are, then they're very, very close to us. If they had wanted to, they'd have contacted us already. They probably want to be left alone.

Kepler bouncing off them might have been enough to trigger their opening salvo.
>> No. 3976 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 9:42 am
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>>3975

It's 1500 light years away. You will never explore the galaxy.
>> No. 3977 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 9:44 am
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>>3975

>If they had wanted to, they'd have contacted us already.
How? We're looking into their past, 1500 years ago. If they have telescopes looking at Earth, they'll be seeing 500AD.
>> No. 3978 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 9:48 am
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>>3976
He could always freeze his brain like that dead kid.
>> No. 3979 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 10:25 am
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>>3976

but...but...wormholes
>> No. 3980 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 10:28 am
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>>3977

Lad, if they have planet sized structures they probably have FTL communication.
>> No. 3981 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 10:45 am
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>>3980

what makes you think senpai would notice us?

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 3982 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 11:58 am
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>>3980

Why? It may not be possible.
>> No. 3983 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 1:27 pm
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>>3982

>It may not be possible.

Yeah that's why I said 'probably' instead of 'certainly'.

Let's not go there.
>> No. 3984 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 1:57 pm
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>>3977
If we are seeing 1500 years ago for them then it is all down to whether or not we receive a signal from that direction as there will be one if it is a Dyson array.

It will be a natural formation unfortunately, unlike this cave, but here's hoping we receive something.
>> No. 3985 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 4:52 pm
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>>3980
>FTL communication

Yeah, go back to reading IFLS lad.
>> No. 3986 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 6:46 pm
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>>3985

Cheer up, you miserable cunt. We're discussing fucking aliens. Not him, but Star Trek is my barometer for what Aliens might have. Any race advanced enough to do what is being discussed atm could be capable of distorting the fabric of space-time in order to travel great distances (Borg).

If they had this tech, which has already been theorised about on Earth, then 1500 light years is a entirely arbitrary number when talking about communication with distant solar systems, because the time it takes light to travel great distances becomes irrelevant.
>> No. 3987 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 7:07 pm
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>>3986
>because the time it takes light to travel great distances becomes irrelevant.
That's a misleading way to say "because I said so". Though you did just admit you take take your theoretical physics from fiction, so I don't know why I'm bothering.
>> No. 3988 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 7:26 pm
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>>3987

>misleading way to say "because I said so"

You're a blithering idiot, and I pity you.

Have a word with yourself. Science-fiction is based on current scientific hypothesis and theories. We've realised some truly astonishing things which started life as an educated guess and someone dared to interpret into a work of fiction, like submarines and mobile telephones and even transporting matter and matter/anti-matter annihilation engines are a plausible idea, with scientists already making breakthroughs in the transportation of matter across a room.

You're a very bitter and silly individual who I suspect needs to re-assess what they think they know about modern physics if you think FTL communication is the invention of a naive mind.
>> No. 3989 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 7:56 pm
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>>3985

Quantum entanglement?

Why is this thread so hostile? You'll know what true hostility is when our heretical probing opens the gaping maw of the warp.
>> No. 3990 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 8:02 pm
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>>3987

No, it's just that you're the kind of pedantic killjoy who would probably have laughed at the suggestion the earth was round if you were alive 1000 years ago. Just because our current technology isn't capable of something doesn't mean it's impossible. You think you're being the voice of reason and real science, but you're actually just a close minded cunt.

I love hard sci-fi that takes the laws of physics totally seriously and has characters travelling in cryosleep for thousands of years to reach just the nearest stars; but at the same time you have to be a total twat to totally and utterly reject the possibility that an advanced enough civilisation has found a way to cheat the limitations of space and time.
>> No. 3991 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 8:08 pm
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>>3989

I think some people get angry and, sometimes, scared when other people talk about things they pretend to understand, because their entire being revolves around knowing more about stuff than others.

Unfortunately, that leaves no room for light hearted discussions about aliens, space or technology because you're touching nerves when you go beyond their knowledge and everyone who mentions stuff they think is far-fetched must be a filthy casual who needs to get back to [insert strawman here].

It happens whenever the topic of space or physics comes up on .gs.
>> No. 3992 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 8:31 pm
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>>3989

Unfortunately, quantum entanglement still prohibits FTL communication.
>> No. 3993 Anonymous
16th October 2015
Friday 8:34 pm
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>>3974

I'm not sure how a new vacuum cleaner will help here tbph. That said, I welcome our new alien/robot/hoover overlords.
>> No. 3994 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 1:36 am
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>>3988
>current scientific hypothesis and theories

Sadly not. Sending any kind of information across a spacelike interval would violate the basic principle of causality - effectively allowing an event to occur in some frames of reference before it is caused.
>> No. 3995 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 1:55 am
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>>3994

If you have advanced sufficiently as a species to invent a propulsion system that can bend the laws of space and time to travel through space, you can send a ship within dialling range and make a call. This is the thing which would make how far away they are and how long a signal would take to get here irrelevant, because they could potentially send a signal from anywhere. Even from under you bed.
>> No. 3996 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 2:06 am
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>>3995
Or maybe from inside your closet, or even inside your head itself.
>> No. 3997 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 3:40 am
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>>3995

That's true, but until they know we're here in the first place, why would they set up a relay in this particular direction? Space is vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big, after all.
>> No. 3998 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 5:40 pm
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>>3995
How did we get from a star-transiting object that isn't necessarily round and most likely a cluster of meteors (according to the astronomer that's actually seen it) to aliens that have invented FTL travel?
>> No. 4000 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:14 pm
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>>3998
I have an idea who might be responsible.
>> No. 4001 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:29 pm
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>>3998

Theorising about wonderfully fantastical, tenuously plausible things is fun and as you said, it's most probably nothing and this discussion is more interesting.

Join in, you might even enjoy yourself you miserable twat.
>> No. 4002 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:36 pm
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>>4001
But science can be fun without fantasy, I spent all morning reading up about ear wax and that was fun!
>> No. 4003 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:38 pm
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>>4002

I said fantastical, not fantasy.
>> No. 4004 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:44 pm
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>>4003
You said "fantasy" instead of "fantasy", then?
>> No. 4005 Anonymous
17th October 2015
Saturday 6:50 pm
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>>4004

Bullheaded stupidity.
>> No. 4006 Anonymous
19th October 2015
Monday 4:18 pm
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>> No. 4017 Anonymous
12th November 2015
Thursday 8:01 pm
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Would it be better or worse to finally get to these things and find out the residents are dead or just not even there? Fucking hell, imagine that, actually getting to the largest, most magnificent unnatural structure ever found, and there's not even anyone home. My brain would just lose it.
>> No. 4018 Anonymous
12th November 2015
Thursday 9:01 pm
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>>4017
I'm sure we've already done that on Earth. I think there's a site somewhere in Latin America that was very clearly man-made but we have no idea about the men that made it.
>> No. 4019 Anonymous
12th November 2015
Thursday 9:07 pm
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>>4017
Been done, mate, when the asari found the Citadel.
>> No. 4052 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 2:15 am
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>>3971

It's close lad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M?t=1626
>> No. 4053 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 2:19 am
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>>4052
>the first stage of the Falcon 9 will attempt an experimental landing on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Is that a song title or a ship? What a weird name.

>>4017
In Accelerando by Charles Stross the characters find some megastructures that are inhabited by not the builders but various other races that came by to visit after the builders left. Plus there's a load of other confusing stuff going on to do with interstellar information economies and scams and things. Interesting stuff.
>> No. 4054 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 9:11 am
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>>4053 Is that a song title or a ship? What a weird name.
Homage to Iain M Banks Culture ships' names.
>> No. 4055 Anonymous
16th April 2016
Saturday 3:56 pm
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>>4054
That's cool.

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