# "Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky Way" **URL:** \ **Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\ **Created:** [15 October 2015 12:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857 "2015-10-15T12:38:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 12:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/1 "2015-10-15T12:38:18Z")
As if the news wasn’t getting ever more dystopian and scary by the day. There may well be an alien civilisation that has harnessed a way to extract energy directly from the sun, just above the Milky Way. > **[Astronomers investigate 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky Way](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/forget-water-on-mars-astronomers-may-have-just-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-a-star-near-a6693886.html)** > > A star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope may harbour structures which could point to an advanced technological civilisation ## I for one look forward to Barry’s nonsensical ramblings about the failed multispeciesism experiment and how no one will say anything about it because they are too pink and afraid of being labelled speciesist. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:11 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/2 "2015-10-15T13:11:23Z")
I am ready for the day we meet aliens. The plan is to immediately shit my pants, and if it turns out that they bleed acid for blood, shit them a bit more. ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:13 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/3 "2015-10-15T13:13:25Z")
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge4oufdIOMc) ---
**Author:** ![lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lifeintheslowlane/32/690_2.png) [@lifeintheslowlane](https://www.sotonians.com/u/lifeintheslowlane)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:20 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/4 "2015-10-15T13:20:08Z")
Ah but they walk amogst us…I’ll say no more. :lou_surprised: ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:26 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/5 "2015-10-15T13:26:21Z")
I’ve seen “They Live!”, lifeintheslowlane. Still waiting on the delivery of the glasses though. ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:33 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/6 "2015-10-15T13:33:18Z")
> Originally posted by @KRG > > As if the news wasn’t getting ever more dystopian and scary by the day. > > There may well be an alien civilisation that has harnessed a way to extract energy directly from the sun, just above the Milky Way. > > [Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky Way | The Independent | The Independent](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) > > I for one look forward to Barry’s nonsensical ramblings about the failed multispeciesism experiment and how no one will say anything about it because they are too pink and afraid of being labelled speciesist. Young padowan you have much to learn, if you don’t agree with me then agree with Merkel and many others. ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 13:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/7 "2015-10-15T13:56:30Z")
Oh, exciting and, yet, scary ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 14:03 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/8 "2015-10-15T14:03:00Z")
I bet it’s just a shopping centre. That galaxy’s version of the Trafford Centre. ---
**Author:** ![Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/map-of-tasmania/32/1298_2.png) [@Map-Of-Tasmania](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Map-Of-Tasmania)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 14:05 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/9 "2015-10-15T14:05:24Z")
Pap prepares himself for the anal probing :lou_surprised: ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 14:29 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/10 "2015-10-15T14:29:27Z")
He lives in 'pool, I thought the police up there did that as part of their SOP when harrassing innocent citizens… ---
**Author:** ![Sfcsim](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sfcsim/32/88192_2.png) [@Sfcsim](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sfcsim)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 14:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/11 "2015-10-15T14:38:40Z")
So, solar power? We have done that! ---
**Author:** ![SuperMikey](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/supermikey/32/38_2.png) [@SuperMikey](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SuperMikey)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 17:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/12 "2015-10-15T17:57:46Z")
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/15/no-we-havent-discovered-alien-megastructures-around-a-distant-star/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/10/15/no-we-havent-discovered-alien-megastructures-around-a-distant-star/) ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 18:16 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/13 "2015-10-15T18:16:48Z")
It is not as interesting as a Dyson sphere, Super Michael, and for that reason, I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![Burp](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/burp/32/86_2.png) [@Burp](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Burp)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 20:05 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/14 "2015-10-15T20:05:18Z")
Cool. Tell them the Tories have it in for them and sit back. ---
**Author:** ![JBoy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/jboy/32/21_2.png) [@JBoy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/JBoy)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2015 21:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/15 "2015-10-15T21:57:27Z")
What have overpriced hoovers got to do with all of this? ---
**Author:** ![PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/philippinesaint/32/3978_2.png) [@PhilippineSaint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/PhilippineSaint)\ **Post date:** [16 October 2015 02:00 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/astronomers-may-have-found-giant-alien-megastructures-orbiting-star-near-the-milky-way/857/16 "2015-10-16T02:00:12Z")
Is Ben Bova looking to promote some more books or have Arthur C Clarke’s heir’s looking to raise some more cash for the Sri Lanka poor?