Kardashev, type II

RL — 10/15/2015 4:30:07 PM (archived)

Continuing an earlier thread of mine from a while back...

This is almost certainly a false alarm, but it's exactly how you would expect discovery of ETI to happen.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/

The paper on the Kepler data:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf

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Kardashev, type II - RL - 10/15/2015 4:30:07 PM
- Re: Kardashev, type II - RL - 9/10/2017 5:37:59 PM
- A testable theory - RL - 5/28/2017 4:10:38 PM
  - illustration - RL - 5/29/2017 6:09:52 PM
- Caught in the act this morning!!! - RL - 5/19/2017 6:15:11 PM
  - I'd better stock up on popcorn - Robert - 5/19/2017 7:42:22 PM
    - The answers to this mystery will almost certainly be interesting... - RL - 5/19/2017 7:59:29 PM
- But wait- there's more! - RL - 10/4/2016 5:16:36 PM
- And it just keeps getting weirder... - RL - 8/12/2016 10:06:18 PM
  - Kardashian, type II? - ER - 8/12/2016 11:45:50 PM
    - They specifically mention Epsilon Aurigae - RL - 8/13/2016 12:07:07 AM
- The latest... - RL - 4/30/2016 4:22:25 PM
  - Maybe what we're seeing here is evidence of just one very nasty industrial accident. - ER - 4/30/2016 6:48:58 PM
    - Stellar Fracking? - RL - 4/30/2016 11:28:25 PM
      - Or the Chernobyl system. - ER - 5/1/2016 3:38:27 AM
- And it just gets weirder... - RL - 1/16/2016 6:53:00 PM
  - starkiller base? - SDG - 1/19/2016 12:53:02 AM
    - That was jokingly suggested by one of the researchers... - RL - 1/19/2016 3:24:25 AM
- The other shoe... - RL - 10/27/2015 3:32:10 AM
  - Still nothing... - RL - 11/7/2015 12:28:04 AM
- Great post, with some hidden interesting news. - bowser - 10/17/2015 12:42:53 AM
- A bit more - RL - 10/16/2015 1:00:35 AM
- Granted, I'm not a scientist of any sort (human or otherwise, that is)... - mcfly - 10/15/2015 7:14:11 PM
  - Some speculation... - ER - 10/15/2015 8:08:51 PM
    - By their works we shall know them... - RL - 10/17/2015 12:00:25 AM
- Thanks for posting this. - ER - 10/15/2015 6:47:54 PM
- Some classic media hype out there - Robert - 10/15/2015 6:32:36 PM

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