{"id":20911,"date":"2016-01-19T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/that-weird-star-that-doesnt-have-alien-megastructures-around-it-it-keeps-getting-weirder"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:30","slug":"that-weird-star-that-doesnt-have-alien-megastructures-around-it-it-keeps-getting-weirder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/that-weird-star-that-doesnt-have-alien-megastructures-around-it-it-keeps-getting-weirder","title":{"rendered":"That Weird Star That Doesn\u2019t Have Alien Megastructures Around It? It Keeps Getting Weirder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/that-weird-star-that-doesnt-have-alien-megastructures-around-it-it-keeps-getting-weirder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I AM aware that this is unlikely to end up being the work of an alien civilization, I DO believe that sooner or later (given the mindbogglingly powerful, state of the art observational instruments coming online soon, or already online, I\u2019d DEFINITELY go with SOONER, rather than later!) we will detect an alien civilization in a similar way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A star that made headlines due to weird brightness dips\u2014leading to speculations of aliens building structures around it\u2014is even weirder than we thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2016\/01\/18\/tabby_s_star_faded_substantially_over_past_century.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I AM aware that this is unlikely to end up being the work of an alien civilization, I DO believe that sooner or later (given the mindbogglingly powerful, state of the art observational instruments coming online soon, or already online, I\u2019d DEFINITELY go with SOONER, rather than later!) we will detect an alien civilization [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68809,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions\/68809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}