I suppose Sarah Kaplan's account sums up the awe and the questions with which we humans have always encountered a truly new phenomenon at a distance. But Star KIC 8462852 got me really thinking: Is it truly an alien megastructure? Are we in the cusp of another Galileo moment? This is it, is it? Is our view of ourselves and the universe and creation just about to change forever?
KIC 8462852 is some 1,814 light years away, though. Thus, we're told, the images we're reading about are 1,400+ years old, as light travels! But that's recent, compared to the Egyptian Pryamids at Giza, or even Stonehenge.
So who knows what an "odd display" of the 6th century A.D. might look like in a light display of right now? (Pity, we on earth would have to wait until the 35th century A.D. to know) [Click here for a Sixth Century Timeline on Earth . Pity, we have no feasible prognosis for the 35th century A.D.]
READ MORE: Sarah Kaplan (October 2015) "The star that has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructure
SETI: "...this material is not simply a planet.. [so may what we're seeing be] "a phalanx of orbiting solar panels (a so-called Dyson swarm) that block light from the star"?
READ: Galileo Galilei Timeline
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015
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