JCC Astronomers Spot Space-Faring Civilization Leaving Nearby Star System

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/20...zarre-fast-moving-ripples-in-dust-around-star

Sorry Vivec. Looks like we were wrong.

 

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"One explanation for the strange structure links them to the star's flares," co-author Glenn Schneider, of Steward Observatory in Arizona, said in the statement. "AU Mic is a star with high flaring activity — it often lets off huge and sudden bursts of energy from on or near its surface."
"One of these flares could perhaps have triggered something on one of the planets — if there are planets — like a violent stripping of material which could now be propagating through the disk, propelled by the flare's force," Schneider said.

 

please tell me you don't actually believe that flare explanation.

 

Also

 

Oh, this is a joke thread. My apologies.

 

There's no evidence they're heading this way. If my star system were named "AU Microscopii" I'd be leaving too. Talk about a groin kick to the self esteem. That's quite a red dwarf you've got there. Some might call it microscopii.

 

They were leaving after someone insisted the Weyl Fermion was a fundamental particle. I empathize.

 

It's not the SIZE of your celestial body it's how you use it!

 

It's quite an advanced race. They were able to induce the red dwarf to flare as propellant, more or less blowing wind in their solar sails. A species that can control the output of its home star is formidable indeed. Luckily they're 32 light years away.

 

Mass tells space how to bend. Space tells mass how to move. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

Through warp drives.

 

That looks an awful lot like fat shaming to me.

 

Looks to me like she jumped, then regretted it. Did she grow up to be an astronomer, or...?

 

Aliens. They came....they saw....




No prizes for guessing their next move.

 

... they left.

 

triggered by gravity

 

Now that they left, clearly, we have to go get their sweet, sweet Unobtainium. No problems will present itself in this plan.

 

Now is a great chance for me to lament at the lack of Michael Dorn behind the wheel pics on the internet.