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Tabby's star dims once more
Topic Started: Mar 27 2018, 02:08 PM (349 Views)
Datura
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https://www.sciencealert.com/tabby-s-star-kic-846852-dimming-again-deepest-dip-since-kepler-record

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's probably not aliens.
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Tartarus
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Too bad the thing is so far away that we can't just pop over to check out what is causing the dimming. Would be nice if one could get a close up look rather than just relying on the limited amount of data telescopes can give us.

Incidentally, just a nitpick on what the article says: It says the star is 1280 light years away, but most other sources seem to say its 1480 light years. Could be just a typo in this article I guess.
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Aug 31 2017, 08:16 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We're in the middle of a vast maelstrom of interstellar warfare, unaware of the currents of destruction around us. What we pick up are short emergency bursts. Something out there is plunging our galaxy into chaos and all we can do is listen to the scraps we can detect, oblivious to the carnage that is threatening to consume all life in our universe.

I choose to believe.


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aliens just ignore us
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
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the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Archeoraptor
Mar 28 2018, 02:03 PM
aliens just ignore us
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We should all know this!! It was the results of Dyson Swarms! However Tabby's star doesn't actually exist anymore and things known as "amnestic" things are being used to conceal this fact from the general public.






Yes this a reference to SCP-3029.
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PNF-404 (Pikmin as an Alternate Evolution project.)
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Flisch
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I mean, it's not too farfetched that Tabby's star doesn't exist anymore. The light that reaches us is 1,280 years old. What if the dimming is the result of the star being siphoned by some advanced space emprie to fuel their civilization and the star is long gone.
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