Well this could be interesting.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/sp...nology-possibly-spotted-orbiting-distant-star
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/sp...nology-possibly-spotted-orbiting-distant-star
Aliens?
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Awesome story. I suppose it's only a matter of time until we find signs like this and more... but for us to detect them from that distance the objects would have to be pretty massive right? We are surrounded by satellites, the ISS, and space junk, but you would have to be extremely close to our solar system (or have incredible technology) to detect them. So, if these are objects created by life, they must be pretty amazing!
I'm of the opinion that it's only a matter of when do we find signs of extra-terrestrial life. I just can't believe that as massive as the galaxy is, not to mention the universe that life only developed on one rock.
As much as I want to believe this is true, things like this come out all the time and turn out to be nothing.
Does anyone else ever get this mind-tripping feeling when reading or thinking about the galaxy and how small we are in proportion to it let alone the entire universe?
This star is a little less than 1500 light years away so that means what is being seen happened around 500 AD. If these are objects aliens launched into space then they were doing that before the time the Chinese were inventing the earliest firework (according to Wikipedia) and 500 years before the first documented use of people launching a metal ball out of a cannon a hundred feet (also according to Wikipedia). :shocked:
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ha awesome. used to get hiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhh and go to astro 120. was amazing. tried that with astro 150 I ADVISE AGAINST IT
I feel like this is one of those things that we all go oooooooo and aaaaaaaaaaa about and then never hear about it again.
Didn't work out so well for me in 120 but sociology and psych classes were never a problem for whatever reason.