{"id":57413,"date":"2017-05-16T20:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T03:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/gigantic-alien-megastructures-built-by-an-advanced-civilisation-could-be-orbiting-dozens-of-nearby-stars-boffin-says"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:31","slug":"gigantic-alien-megastructures-built-by-an-advanced-civilisation-could-be-orbiting-dozens-of-nearby-stars-boffin-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/gigantic-alien-megastructures-built-by-an-advanced-civilisation-could-be-orbiting-dozens-of-nearby-stars-boffin-says","title":{"rendered":"Gigantic \u2018alien megastructures\u2019 built by an advanced civilisation could be orbiting dozens of nearby stars, boffin says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gigantic-alien-megastructures-built-by-an-advanced-civilisation-could-be-orbiting-dozens-of-nearby-stars-boffin-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My theory, alien life will either be nearly impossible to find and we will spend centuries just looking for microbes. Or aliens will turn out to be so common that they could care less who we are and where we came from, and we will just be a new backwards species that turns up at the alien bar.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world was electrified last year when it was suggested that scientists had spotted an \u201calien megastructure\u201d orbiting a distant star.<\/p>\n<p>Now a space boffin has suggested huge extraterrestrial constructions could be relatively easy to spot, so long as we look in the right place using the correct tools.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, one expert suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2458740\/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-kic-8462852-solved-stargazers-say-theyve-discovered-cause-of-bizarre-deep-space-anomaly\/\" target=\"_blank\">the unexplained \u201cwinking\u201d behaviour of a far-off sun called Tabby\u2019s Star<\/a> may have been caused by the rotation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2645832\/stargazers-have-spotted-another-star-which-looks-like-an-alien-megastructure-is-orbiting-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">gigantic craft called<\/a> a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2645832\/stargazers-have-spotted-another-star-which-looks-like-an-alien-megastructure-is-orbiting-it\/\"> Dyson\u2019s Sphere.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2017\/05\/16\/gigantic-alien-megastructures-built-by-advanced-civilisation-could-be-orbiting-dozens-nearby-stars-boffin-says.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2017\/05\/16\/gigantic-alien-megast...-says.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My theory, alien life will either be nearly impossible to find and we will spend centuries just looking for microbes. Or aliens will turn out to be so common that they could care less who we are and where we came from, and we will just be a new backwards species that turns up at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57413","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57524,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57413\/revisions\/57524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}