the milky way probably has weirder stuff in it

[james_davis_nicoll]

As pointed out on FB:

This star is pretty weird. I am going to suggest 'look at enough stars and you will see unlikely, short lived events.' Not aliens.

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[nelc.livejournal.com]

Although aliens could be an unlikely, short-lived event.

[seawasp]

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yes?

hrmph.

[anzhalyumitethe.livejournal.com]

Already covered on The Dragon's Gaze on October 7th.

Possibly comets. Might be a disintegrating exoplanet. After all, K2-22b just showed up today and that IS a disintegrating rocky exoplanet with a comet like head and tail.

(might be Krypton!)

Sky father has a frack load of fingers to be pulled as yet.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

My immediate question was, "What's the spectral class of the star?"

Looking at the Dragon's Gaze article, it seems to be an F3 star. Since F stars have a lifespan of at most 7 billion years, I think that's lowering the odds of it being astroengineering quite a bit. From "almost certainly not" to "Really almost completely certainly not."

[nelc.livejournal.com]

Those short-lived, high-mass main sequence stars — such a waste of energy, just begging for redevelopment....

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

If our Sun had a 7 billion year lifespan, it would still have 2.5 billion years to go. Plenty of time to build a Dyson swarm and still have 2.5 billion years to spare.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

An F9 star would last 7 billion years. An F3 would be closer to 3 billion.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going with freak event too. That or someone's building a Dyson sphere and is having trouble assembling it...

[(Anonymous)]

Bloody Ikea. Honey, where'd you put the scrith glue?

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

I think we're going to need more duct tape...

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

We're supposed to have a General Products hex wrench. Do you see a hex wrench anywhere?

[nojay.livejournal.com]

Metric or AF? Cue Bob Hoskins as the Central Services plumber in "Brazil"...

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Men never read the directions .....

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

The Mobius Ringworld was not as much fun as it looked in simulation.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Say, wasn't there a sector of the sky that had an improbably large number of novas and supernovas in it? I remember Arthur C Clarke observing it and tossing out the idea that, what the heck, maybe we're seeing the result of a Doc Smithian interstellar war, or could at least use that for a story premise?