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Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure?
- gus_massa 11y agoPrevious discussion (other URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386214 (170 points, 2 days ago, 79 comments) I'll quote a comment of yk about the article in The Atlantic, but it looks relevant here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386919 > . http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 . > The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, found a star with a rather strange light curve and the Atlantic jumped the gun and babbels of aliens.