We discovered a Dyson Sphere! . . . maybe
by Coded Logic 37 Replies latest social current
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cofty
It's a fascinating discovery whatever it is.
It doesn't behave like anything that is already known about.
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prologos
after sleeping on the problem, naturally:
as we look at it, It dims the star ~ every 700 days, it does so for ~ a week, if this were our Solar system, it would be a cloud that orbits just past Mars and has a size of ~ 15 million km, 1/10 the distance from us to the Sun.
I would be our Uranus, with a giant ring system like Saturn, replacing our Mars. or
you can speculate that the KIC Joshua made KIC stand still, or Isaiah reverse the shadow in 535 CE* using smoke and space mirrors. *KIC --, as seen now, is 1 480 LY away, in our past.
PS question, would not a Dyson Sphere block the star light completely, surround, encapsul the light source?
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Village Idiot
This would be a good reason for building super telescopes in space that would be able to see planets and other objects with great clarity. -
SafeAtHome
I'm with Simon. I was going to say I prefer the Shark, it's more user friendly and much less expensive.
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Village Idiot
Coded Logic, great cartoon on peer review. Can you please provide me a link to the website where you got that from. -
Coded Logic
would not a Dyson Sphere block the star light completely, surround, encapsul the light source?
Common misconception. A dyson sphere isn't necessarily a solid object. It's a "sphere" made out of billions of satellites around a star (sometimes also called a Dyson Swarm).
Also, I'm not sure how you came to your calculations on size but we know that - whatever this is - it most certainly is NOT a planet or a high mass object. The wobble of the star, the amount of light being blocked, and the orbital period of the dimming all show this.
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Village Idiot
What life might look like in a free floating space colony. Torus colony above, O'Neill Cylinders below:
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Coded Logic2 hours ago
would not a Dyson Sphere block the star light completely, surround, encapsul the light source?
"Common misconception. A dyson sphere isn't necessarily a solid object. It's a "sphere" made out of billions of satellites around a star (sometimes also called a Dyson Swarm).
good points. some form a solid structure would be preferable though, given the complications of orbital mechanics of all the objects with intersecting orbits at key points. and one would not have a sudden cessation of the flux with a web like that.
re: mass of the object: You caught that too, I did not get to the "edit button in time, in the solar syatem analogy, the giant ring uranus (tited) woud have to have ~ the mass of mars.
re: calculations: a ~700 days pulsation rate implies an orbit approx. the distance of Mars for a Sun-sized star, at the orbital speed there, 24 km/s the week-long hiatus would indicate a 15 million km size.
