light pattern from distant star system could indicate alien intelligence some SETI astrononors say (Earth, pulsars)

[gsoboi78]

could we really be on the brink of discovering alien intelligence? Scientist don't seem to have any natural explanations for the oddity.

Sign of alien intelligence? Space anomaly getting experts’ attention | myfox8.com

[April R]

Holy crap
That's incredible!

[gsoboi78]

If it is artificial, the "structure" that's causing the oddity is planet size indicating technology far beyond our own. What a way to bust our ego and find out we aren't the smartest beings in the universe.

[Woof]

Originally Posted by gsoboi78

could we really be on the brink of discovering alien intelligence? Scientist don't seem to have any natural explanations for the oddity.

Sign of alien intelligence? Space anomaly getting experts’ attention | myfox8.com

Well, they have possible natural explanations including the comet swarm idea, but those alternatives don't seem to work perfectly.

I didn't click on the OP article because local TV websites often clog up my tired old computer, but here's another one: Kepler's 'Bizarre' Signal Sparks Alien Intelligence Speculation : Discovery News

[PanTerra]

I remember a time when pulsars, because of their precise regularity, were claimed to be evidence of some alien intelligence sending out radio signals

[303Guy]

I just want to ask the same question here;

Is it not possible that an object in our own solar system passed in front of the star in question? Or even a piece of space junk in the earth's own space junk cloud?

[Woof]

No, 303. The scientists involved were not camping out in their boxer shorts looking through a $300 telescope while smoking pot and chugging beer, and idly speculating about something cool they had just seen.

[John7777]

I still have a hard time believing that there are people who question the existence of other intelligent lifeforms in the universe. Why would we be the only ones? So may stars, so many galaxies. They must be out there somewhere.

[303Guy]

What was unusual about that was the depth of the light dips, up to 20% decrease in light,

20% dimming would rule out a planet or planet sized object.

And don't knock pot phylosifysiinggg... whateverrrr zzzzz. Hey, it made more sense than some distant aliens building a planet size object. Built from what exactly?

[IamReady2Move]

I guess the correct answer is: we don't know what it.
Weird star: Strange dips in brightness are a bit baffling.

Plait cautions that there is no reason to think it's some huge alien structure. Built from what? The planets, asteroids, comets orbiting the star. Along the lines of the Dyson sphere that Freeman Dyson suggested years ago.

Wild speculation at this point, but I don't think Plait is a New Age Nutter, and he doesn't say it's impossible. Just that if he had to guess, it's some natural phenomenon we haven't seen yet.