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[CoolTen10]

What is the consensus? Could this be an extraterrestrial discovery? Finally?

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

What is the consensus? Could this be an extraterrestrial discovery? Finally?

of course it's extraterrestrial... it's out there right? ask seti.

https://hacked.com/allen-telescope-array-looking-signals-candidate-alien-megastructure/

[Caruthers612]

        If this one isn't the big one, just be patient, it'll happen. There are more powerful space telescopes and such on the way. And once we've confirmed an ET civilization, our overlords in the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission will be revealed for all to see, their gonads flailing in the breeze as they are hanged above Wall Street, and the people will cry "Free at last! Holy shit, mon, I's free at last!" And stuff.

[USSGOBLiN]

The odds are its a natural formation possibly a dead stellar fragment hauling the debris from a massive collision that has entered into an orbit. Which is why it was slightly changing on each orbital pass. I gave Dr Freeman Dyson the report myself which I had back in September. He is not saying its an artificial construction. It is being hyped intentionally so if the public gets whipped up enough that funding may appear for a more advanced replacement for Kepler. However it also could be artificial but the odds on that are less likely than debris from a massive collision. Either way, natural or artificial it is an amazing discovery that deserves to be studied the best way our limited technology can muster.