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[Keith Henson]

I think you missed the important point, there are 15 nearby stars that
are also blinking.

Keith

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:37 AM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 16:54, Keith Henson via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Tue at a zoom meeting we were discussing that Ray Kurzweil now
> > predicts the possibility of immortality by 2030, people took me (and
> > the other cryonicists there) to
> > task about why we want to live a long time.
> >
> > Here is a good reason, I don’t think we can figure out what is going
> > on at Tabby’s Star without going there. It’s 1470 light years distant
> > and
> >
> > “Now, a new astronomical paper published on the prepublication science
> > site Arxiv.org says KIC 8462852 is not alone.
> >
> > “In fact, it may be just one of a tight cluster of some 15 stars that
> > show the same bewildering changes in brightness.”
> >
> > https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/tabbys-star-may-not-be-alone-as-study-finds-cluster-of-pulsating-stars/46ITNS5IJAQP444XEDA4YI7POY/
> >
> > Best wishes, Keith
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> It would be a bit of a bummer if they spent a thousand years to get
> halfway to Tabby's star and then their telescopes showed that the
> brightness changes were all due to dust clouds after all.
> Such long distance galaxy exploration must be left to AGI to do.
>
>
> BillK
>
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