[ExI] tabby's star dimming again

[John Clark]

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:

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>> Tabby's star is 1,480 light-years away. I think we can safely not
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>> worry about visitors.
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> That simply means that 1480 years ago a not-impossible ET might have been
> what like 5% finished with a Dyson swarm?
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Cosmically speaking 1
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480 light
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ears is right next door, and
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abby's star
​ was discovered by the​ Kepler space telescope and Kepler was only looking
at 1/400 of the sky, so if Tabby is 5% complete then fully complete Dyson
Spheres, and even more advanced structures, should be a dime a dozen. So
where the hell are they? We should have found them 50 years ago, if not
5000 years ago.

 John K Clark
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