What Are Alien Megastructures?

I agree Jeremy - absolutely no shame in that whatsoever! Hopefully what I said didn't imply that! Apologies if it did - was not what I meant at all - I'm not really convinced that it's the answer but I don't really know what the answer is lolol So I concur with you! Why not? I am of the mind though that there's simply not enough information at this point to state one way or the other which is why I still choose to basically "ride the fence" as it were. But love hearing from all camps on the issuse - thank you so much for sharing your statement! It's one of the reasons I love this fourm! And as always, thank you Fraser for sharing these videos! Lady Anne ^^ö^^

Fraser, you said about the material in Solar system enough for a 0.5 meter Dyson sphere... Honestly, it's hard to believe. Can you present any reference/math?

There is absolutely no shame in suggesting aliens. We are proof enough that there could be aliens. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Let's keep watching this star!

Fraser - Awesome episode - as always! Yes, not buying Aliens quite yet, though the thought of being able to harness the power of the stars is awesome & theoretically possible building a sphere - as you stated the engineering behind all of that is mind boggling! What do I feel is dimming the star over time? I think I am going to have to go with Ockham's Razor on this - in other words "the simplest of competing theories be preferred for explanations of unknown phenomena & be sought first", i.e. the simplest answer is usually the correct one therefore, some cosmic event is taking place at these described periods in time to cause the star to dim - dust, comets, who knows whatever - but just am not buying into an Alien Megastructure - Unless everything went dark because someone found some large, odd looking eggs, and forgot to call Ellen Ripley 1st before opening one, I'm just not feeling it - but I digress yet again, apologies! Hey I would love to be wrong, but even the NASA/JPL & the rest of the scientific community has pretty much thrown out this idea in favor of again some astrophysics event we've yet to fully understand. But, would love to hear what other listeners/followers of your program think and why - one can never stop learning and exploring all ideas! Another reason I enjoy your programs - you leave the door open to all ideas & possible solutions! Anne Boleyn a pseudonym!?! Surely Not! I would never! It can't be! Okay, okay, yes just a lowly, retired, old gal Geomorphologist/Volcanologist hiding out under a false name tis true! Lololol I am however humbled by the shout out though and love your programs! Lady Anne ^^ö^^ (Jessica M. Kandal, PhD)