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'Alien megastructure' Tabby's Star: Light is definitely dimming

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What is important is what was not said ...

I think it is important to note the phrase that "no known effect" could explain the observations. The obvious conclussion is that it might be something unknown and new to science. This is excatly the sort of thing that science is built on - find something that cannot be explained by "known science", then come up with a coherent way of explaining it.

On another note I cannot buy the idea of a Dyson Sphere; they (along with ring worlds) are intrinsically unstable (Larry Niven gave a good explanation in "Ringworld Engineers"). A Dyson Swarm is much more likely; in fact a partially completed swarm that occupies only a fraction of the available orbital slots could explain the observations.

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