English (US): Civilization English (UK): Civilisation Both are correct ways of spelling the word depending on your nationality. Seriously guys there are aliens building a star harvester and you’re all freaking out about an alternate way to spell a word.
Have you guys ever played the new game Fall Guys? It is really fun I suggest you guys look into it as soon as possible. It is a very fun game and has a lot of humans. There is nothing interesting to see here so just go and play Fall Guys because a lot of humans like to play it.
Im just sitting here waiting for the EXTREMELY overwhelmingly large telescope 🤩 and then, if i get old enough, im hoping to see the SUPER DUPER MEGA OVERWHELMINGLY large telescope.. and i hope to also create some descendants of mine to see the LUDICROUSLY OVERWHELMINGLY LARGE telescope..........😂 Yes, i can ABSOLUTELY continue this forever
Let's write our own screen play!? How about a drama, where a benevolent being comes to earth( c-137 lol) from KIC846 and tries to free all of humanity from the evil Aliens that have humans enslaved on earth.
I've watched a documentary about this weird af star a few months ago and I remember that the people who observed the star classified it as a new type of star so it's indeed not an alien civilisation building a Dyson sphere to harvest it's star's energy but a star with many brightness dips. I've also heard that this was only the 1st case of discovering such a star but after that, scientists found a few more. They're just really rare special stars with dips of brightness. Sadly, no aliens :(
Now I'm not nearly as smart as any of the individuals working on fluctuations of luminosity of stars. I believe that it is agreed that the distances to these stars is vast - several light years and the video does acknowledge that the possibility of planets has been discounted. Then there was talk of dust clouds and comets near the respective star and talk discounted the odds because of the size or number required. Here is my question. In the vastness of space, if an object passes closer to the observer, the object doesn't need to be nearly as big as to partially block the view of the distant star. As for the duration of the dimming - well couldn't this object be moving at a slow velocity? While I love the theory of aliens - it seems FAR more likely that debris - regardless of origin - is gonna get in the way of our view of some stars at some point, even if its our own hand blocking light to shade our eyes - our hand isn't big but if it is close enough to our eyes it can block most of the light. This seems far far far more likely than any alien theory although not nearly as entertaining.
Actually Its been proven that nothing could actually cause the 20% flux in light, the worlds experts have studied this star for half a century and still no plausible explanation. Actually the odds of advanced technology by another cosmic race is more likely than not. But the truth is we will never know until we advance our own studies and technology.
This was something that came to mind, but if it was something interstellar between us and the star, how would it block that specific line of sight multiple times? It would need to be in orbit around it. (Cannot be us because if it was the dip would not occur at some times of the year)
Agreed - it's far likelier to be some sort of natural event happening. And if you look back at the early days of our solar system, it was NOT uncommon for planets to collide repeatedly, over the course of maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany years. A century is nothing. For all we know it could be an extremely violent solar system, with massive planetary collisions on the regular. As much as part of me wants it to be aliens..... It's probably not aliens.
@@JulianUccetta or could it possibly just be as simple as relativity? Light bends around gravity and space. So could it just be a very large object, planet, comet, asteroid, anything that's bending the light and possibly has something orbiting that specific object which might be why it keeps going in and out? Idk I just started learning about this kind of stuff, so I could be wrong
@@fujio.4901 Yeah that's entirely in the realm of possibility. It's far more likely to be a completely natural phenomena than something like extra terrestrial life. Chances are, if there is intelligent life in our galaxy, or our local area of the galaxy, it's either a primitive form of intelligent life or an extinct one. But even that is hard to say as the distances between us and that star is so vast we have relatively little to do but speculate. It just makes more sense to jump to the logical solution rather than the far fetched solution at first.
The best design of a dyson sphere to exist. Naturally powers the solar sytem, and the sphere captures the energy that would've been waisted to be redirceted and spread across their solar colonies.
Dyson Sphere. if that's what they are building, or were building 1,400 years ago , and if they were successful they may have harnessed enormous amounts of energy, and could possibly be starting to venture out into the galaxy by now =)
@@brumpmoment5854 If a civilization with so massive technological advantage over us would have been here, they would have conquered this planet in a matter of hours.
@@brumpmoment5854 Why would they have come here? We have only had a radio presence for a little over 120 years, so enen our oldest, and weakest signals are only around 10% of the way there. How would a distant, pre-technological and radio-silent world be attractive?
amazing video, I just love the topics you pick. It is just interesting to listening to you and to think over said things, even tho it probaply isn't aliens.
The star is 1,400 light years away. Does this mean that the events witnessed were actually occurring 1,400 years ago? Due to the fact that thats how long it would take light from that sun to reach us. If it was indeed a structure being constructed around the sun by an alien race, then in actual time this race would be 1,400 years more advanced than we are observing. Right?
So SEA, I've seen a documentary about this and wanted to share the theory: KIC 8462852 could be a binary star system, the most common type of star system, where two stars orbit each other in a shared movement. The star that is visible to us is a main sequence star, much like our Sun, but the object causing the light change cannot be another star, right? Wrong. The other star was a white dwarf, an extremely dense and hot object, which is what the Sun will become eventually, which has had it's outer gases such as hydrogen and helium sucked away by the other star, leaving the heavier materials such as carbon. It would be a giant diamond, really. Anyway, this object succumbed to the tidal force of the other star, tearing it apart, creating huge amounts of carbon chucks to orbit the star, causing the effect we observe. This is just a theory but to me this is the most reasonable. You might not see this but I wanted to share this anyway. Good job on the video btw :)
I literally scrolled through all of the comments looking for someone else who noticed the same mistake. It was obviously a mispronunciation and I even replayed the part just to be sure I heard it right.
It took little to know research’s but January fourth, 2019 it was found that a dust ring made from comets with variations of thickness was doing this, it wasn’t hard to imagine. When there are so many possibilities, I hate it when people jump to aliens for clicks.
Not many people can expand their content and have it be as high quality as their origins of fame, you're already well on your way to that well deserved 1 million subs. Amazing job Sea! Good luck with your channel's bright future :)
@@shawnmclaughlin5886 a civilization big/intelligent enough to build a structure that big would be done by now, assuming if we are seeing the light of it in the process and its cause massive fluctuations in the data we are getting. I'm just assuming that its done due to how long ago it happened.
@@Dubbroo thats the point. You are assuming a lot of factors. For all we know the material capable of doing it is near impossible to synthesis and could take 2000 years to find enough for completion. I doubt its even possible for us to grasp the logistics of what would be going on. How to combat that kind of radiation and heat by itself is mindboggling. Not to mention have a material that can withstand those forces. All im saying is with absolutely no comparison you cant assume anything. Even though i assumed all my points lol
@@shawnmclaughlin5886 And you are assuming a lot too right there. cause for all we know, its already done. that's was what i was trying to say you ape. Not sure why you are against my assumption that it may already be done. like nigga chill lol. And saying that an extraterrestrial structure is blocking some light to begin with is absurd by its self. I can make my assumption based on assumptions too if i please m8. I just so believe that if an alien civilization is capable to build something that big, it probably wouldn't take them over 2000 years to complete based on how much their civilization has progressed in that time span. You can say all you want how I could be wrong but in reality it doesn't matter one bit cause you cant prove my assumption to be false one tiny bit.
I'm not really a follower of this theory, what always makes me doubt it is one thing. If a civilisation has advanced so much it actually has the technology to build such a structure around a massive star, would it actually need to? I believe any lifeform that advanced would have already managed to produce an alternative technology capable of generating such power anyway, negating the need for such an elaborate and time consuming undertaking. Take humanity, we are able to reproduce nuclear fission with technology, rather than having to harness the power of a star to achieve it.
Chade Fallstar solar energy is low risk energy with no negative effects. If you build a machine to collect the energy around it you can get a ton of energy. Look at Chernobyl or global warming. Creating our own energy is bad
@@sejmroz7355 It was a fissure reactor, but either way nuclear fission and fissure are not permanent solutions for energy, because of the impact that these energy production methods cause. Fusion using a megastructure around a star is the best way to harness energy in your solar system.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here dude with "reproduce nuclear fission with technology". It implies that in the future we can magic things into existence just because we're adavanced enough to travel into space. As far as I've learnt, nuclear fission uses uranium which is non-renewable. And by the time we get into space, we'll need MUCH more energy than what's available on Earth if we want to keep progressing. Solar energy is literally "the best" renewable energy source we have right now and just because it's a pain in the arse to build a Dyson Sphere to harvest it, doesn't mean it isn't worth it or won't benefit us as much by the time we can do so. There's very few things in the universe that can give us as much energy as a star. You might have already heard of the Kardashev scale, I'd say have a look at that as it shows many decent ways for humanity to get lasting energy sources. I don't buy into this theory either, but if your best reason is essentially (with respect) "Because in the future we'll have magic", then feel better dude. Because we won't and never will. Which means aliens won't either.
Hey, I wanted to ask if you could make a video about the great attractor in the near future. This is a object with a damn strong gravitation... Would be so awsome! I like this videos much more than your GD stuff. Keep going this way, even if you dont get so much views on them. The people who watch this videos are part of your community, which watches the videos because of you and not because of GD. :)
@@aronsmith4387 that's how long it would take light to reach it but when we are talking about a man made object it would take it a very long time example when we sent a gold disk it took it years to past puto so when we are talking about this start it would take many many years to finally reach it
When our definition of Type I and II civilization doesn’t apply because a “Type II” would skip our current understanding of physics and can create energy or pull it from another dimension.
pokemastermat Ah, yeah, right. I forgot you had a minecraft profile picture. That gives you an extra 50 IQ points and a right to make AfterCataBath jokes, yeah.
One possible reason why we do not detect radio signals from that start is that If a civilization has been building a Dyson sphere for at least 1000 years it is possible that by the time we became able to detect radio signals, that civilization long stopped using any technology that emits radio signals, and they use a more efficient way to communicate, such as laser or something else. It is possible that they stopped emitting radio thousands of years ago.
Yo dude, absolutely amazing video, such interesting topics. Just don't care about the views, your non-GD series will start getting more views, it's just a matter of time at this point of video quality. Great job. :)
reading comments here saying it’s been discovered and classified as a new type of star, and that others have been found. which to me is rather satisfying, because i wasn’t really buying the whole dyson sphere thing
Have they thought of the possibility of a black hole nearby the star absorbing photons? We already know that black holes can't be spotted with ease and they absorb light, thus it might be the reason for this abrupt luminosity decrease.
Scientists have recently figured out how to detect black holes which is why we have discovered so many super massive black holes recently. I’m sure that’s one of the first theories to hit the chopping block but it is curious why they didn’t mention it in the video
We could be going through a phase where all the aliens understand that there should be other aliens but can’t reach or talk to them yet so they focus on building forth like we should
Decided to start watching your videos from oldest to newest while I patiently await your next masterpiece. I did not expect your words per minute to jump to 2x your more recent uploads. I don't mean this as a criticism, I just had the "oh 😳" reaction haha. You're among my very favorite channels on UA-cam 🌌
This was the second space video I ever made and unfortunately everyone has to start somewhere. I learned video editing while I was becoming a space youtuber and not before so yes all the old videos are crap, badly paced and edited and generally not very good. Sorry about that. Btw have you seen I uploaded just the other day?
@@sea_space I have! I'm not sure if I saw the discord or the UA-cam notification first, but I clicked right away! I meant my comment in a playful spirit, not as criticism 🙏🏾. We grow and we learn in everything we continue to do in life. I really value your videos, especially how you create a narrative that carries from one to the next. Dark Matter>Dark Energy, Edge>Beyond the edge, Collisions>terrestrials>Gas Giants, etc. I'm revisiting your earlier work to experience your journey as it evolved similar to how the series does. Much love, sorry if it didn't convey as such in my previous comment 🫡
Yeah I didn’t mean it to sound like you offended me! It’s very true the videos aren’t the greatest quality. Back then I was working a job so I was only really creating at night and spending 1/2 days on videos powered by coffee. Now as I’m sure you know I spend like a month approaching them and trying to take my time. Would be better if I could upload more because then I could remake some of those old videos but I quite like the whole process
What I don't understand about a Dyson sphere; if you build one, you'll block the light of your sun and your planet and everything on it will freeze to death. No light, no heat. Unless you dig in beforehand worldwide, _Caves of steel_ style, and _then_ build a Dyson sphere. Or am I missing something? I'm no scientist but I like to know these things.
Trying only to imagine what it would take to build a mega structure around our planet, it is absolutely mindblowing to picture where and how a civilization would get all the material for such an incredibly enormous construction. This definitely gives fuel to ideas of futuristic sci-fi.
This would be so cool. I imagine finding life in the universe is similar to trying to find another castaway in the ocean, drifting through a sea of nothing. Even if you did find it you would be unable to communicate with anyone as if you were trying to shout over a storm.
I believe it’s because humans just want to think that they are all powerful and unique that they are the only species when that is mathematically impossible.
Imagine the sheer amount of material needed for even super thin Dyson structure. We'd have to mine out planets and asteroid belts. I wonder what would be more feasible. Since it's basically about collecting the star's output, why not built "Dyson plates" that are unconnected (or loosely connected) and put into orbit around the star, instead of one single big structure? You could add such orbital plates bit by bit as they were being completed and put them into the same orbit (at different rotation spots). Maybe far later along, when you had a large number of such plates, you could start connecting them up, filling gaps and forming the actual mega structure.
Where would an alien civilization get the materials to build a mega structure, large enough to engulf their Sun? Clearly the structure itself would have to be MILLIONS of times the volume of ALL the material on their home planet. Even admitting that this civilization is smarter and more capable than humanity, by astronomical orders of magnitude, how would they gather or harvest the material, the "stuff", to build something like a Dyson's sphere? I always wondered if that is even possible. The civilization would have to harvest and mine materials from MILLIONS of other planets! How many of the surrounding planets would even have materials made of the same basic elements, elements that are compatible with with what their structure is built of? Even if all this was possible, wouldn't it take a civilization, literally MILLIONS of years to build this type of structure? After an inconceivable length of time like THAT, is there any civilization that wouldn't change so much over time, that they would either lose interest in a project like this, or simply have no use for it over time? The only way I can believe in a theory like this, is if the civilization in question, is LITERALLY IMMORTAL! I believe that only ETERNAL LIFE (or a life span longer than we can imagine), could motivate a civilization to build such a thing. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I truly think it is so improbable, as to border on science fiction, the: "FICTION" part, remaining so for all eternity. The universe is stranger than anything we can imagine and ANYTHING is possible, even God. I think that only God could build something like this, and IF God exists, he, she or it, would have no use for such a structure.
Makes me think... If we were to make substantial progress on a Dyson sphere, if and when when the difference in light fluctuations reach other civilizations, would that be essentially a beacon to them saying "we exist, are on the rise, and most likely have completed building a dyson structure." That would be a pretty spooky unintended consequence.
ok fine. we admit it this is a harnessing area and we built sort of a cosmic fence around tabby's star to keep the civilization from venus away from it
@@devonhoward4358 No its not, you are just seeing old light because light takes time to travel. It's not "technically" tine travel, that is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
@@connorbalcombe3609 yes that literally means it's time travel dumb fuck when we look up in the stars we are seeing thousand or millions or billions of years in the passed take you stupid uneducated ass somewhere else if you are gonna be this stupid then agree with me because I didnt go into detail
Devon Howard unfortunately you are wrong. We are simply seeing old light and we are not time travelers because we see it. It’s like recording a video and then watching it the next day, you still see something from the past but you yourself are not travel in any direction in time besides forward
@@kylejohnson8462 well you see something that happend in the past, then you are technically traveling your visions through back in time wich makes you time travel.
The real question to ask would be Is there enough mass in the solar system to build a dyson sphere around the sun? I know that Ceres is a large amount of the total mass of just the asteroid belt and it itself is smaller than our moon. Our biggest planets aren't solid so nothing to build with from them, we're literally screwed as a civilization unless our ancestors on planet 9 come back and pick us up on the next orbit.
The irregularity and randomness of the fluctuations in the light data doesn't exactly look consistent enough to be structural. I would think a structure (especially a lattice-like structure) would obscure more complex and noticeable dips.
Megastructure is unrealistic because you would need to harvest millions of planets just to get a quarter of material to build that. A different source of power would be found before collecting this many materials.
Wouldn't this be a good way to try to contact other civilisations out there? For an example if we temporarily manage to block the light from our sun in a specific direction for a short moment then unblock it, would other advanced civilizations be able to pick that up and realise its not a natural thing? So we could tell people we are out here at the speed of light.
It's not possible to be honest... Because this means the current fluctuations which we are observing are actually 1400 years old. This means that "Alien" civilization must have started building it 1400+ years before and which might have been completed and in fully operational by now.
not trying to pop anyone's bubble on this matter, but there is something I'd like to point out that I don't believe was considered in the given the explanations. the star has been observed since the 1890s, and even then the scientists had the ability to measure the amount of light given off by stars. admittedly, this was likely less accurate than the readings we have now, it could still give us a rough idea of the light level variations back then. comparing them to our findings now would allow us to reconsider the possibilities of an alien civilization. If the light emitted now during the dimmer segment of this star's odd cycle is even dimmer than the light emitted in the 1890s, then clearly something is causing more light to be blocked indicating the blockage is getting larger, allowing the possibility of a dyson sphere being constructed. inversely, if its brighter in the dimmest part of the cycle now than it was in the 1890s or it remains the same, then the blockage is shrinking/not changing, eliminating the Dyson sphere construction possibility. the only likely explanation to this anomaly that I can think of would be that there's a super planet orbiting this star causing the light to be blocked out. in addition to this though, constructing a Dyson sphere will have cataclysmic effects on the planets surrounding the star. the lack of light, or the restriction of the light would cause severe temperature drops on the planets. if we constructed a sphere around our star, then earth would freeze over because our "Goldilocks zone" would shrink, if not completely vanish. with this in mind, rather than building a full sphere, one could build a ring around the star instead, or possibly 2. this would cause only a fraction of temperature deviation, and in turn, not devastate the planets (or at least not as badly), thus its still possible it could be a structure of some sort, but this also means that if someone built a ring around their sun, and we're looking at a finished project, then the civilization could be much MUCH older than our estimates could even hope to predict.
The problem I have with alien mega-structures is: Where did they get the materials to build something on that scale? Even a small star would require material from millions of stars for such an undertaking. How would you mine on that scale? How would you transport that much material thousands of light years to the star's system? (You would definitely have to use planets thousands of light years away to get enough material). This is the reason why it seems like the least likely explanation.
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English (US): Civilization
English (UK): Civilisation
Both are correct ways of spelling the word depending on your nationality.
Seriously guys there are aliens building a star harvester and you’re all freaking out about an alternate way to spell a word.
why did you post this comment now? the vid is almost a year old haha
Ikr lol
Its not a star harvester, its that planetary weapon from star wars ep7 that the first order made lol
So the Wright way and the wrong way
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Have you guys ever played the new game Fall Guys? It is really fun I suggest you guys look into it as soon as possible. It is a very fun game and has a lot of humans. There is nothing interesting to see here so just go and play Fall Guys because a lot of humans like to play it.
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@@mr.racooniep3326 no
I like how the scientist in his reported noted the star as the 'WTF Star" once.
Where's The Flux?
Aliens: *doing their own thing.*
Humans: wat are they doin' over there?
“Da fuck they doin over der?”
😂😂😂😂😂
@@shrutis and greedy. If we discover a planet like in Avatar, with primitive life, prepare for genocide, in the name of money and manufacturing goods.
@@kenjamarticus Lol the cat in the snow meme
“IDK but they wylin’ g.”
“we’re going to build an overwhelmingly large telescope. what should we call it”
“uhhhh... the overwhelmingly large telescope?”
“sounds good”
We talking about the people naming stars and planets with numbers and letters.
T.O.L.T
@@diegodeluquev1433 seems pretty logical to me, tell us how you would go about it, genius?
Im just sitting here waiting for the EXTREMELY overwhelmingly large telescope 🤩 and then, if i get old enough, im hoping to see the SUPER DUPER MEGA OVERWHELMINGLY large telescope.. and i hope to also create some descendants of mine to see the LUDICROUSLY OVERWHELMINGLY LARGE telescope..........😂
Yes, i can ABSOLUTELY continue this forever
6:41 one of the best accidental rhymes I've ever heard
"Astronomer Carl Sagan
Put forward an equation
To measure a civilization's
Kardashev rating"
Lmao that was the best
sounds more like a tongue twister
@@zikeyy8716 lol ikr these physics nerds can't tell the difference between a rhyme and a tongue twister!
(Looks at myself in the mirror :( )
Science rapping should be a thing.
@@therealb888 I said it perfectly everytime does that make me a physics nerd?
Is Sea building a channel around everything that exists?
Everything: *Exists*
Sea: it’s free real estate
Sea: Thank you everything, very cool!
Well he hasn’t done fortnite yet
its *sea* real estate
*im sorry guys*
Lol he plans on learning everything and then becoming a god. Oh wait... he already is one 😁😂
Somebody send this to Hollywood.. I want a movie that my imagination wants.
Captain Jack Sparrow yess
Let's write our own screen play!?
How about a drama, where a benevolent being comes to earth( c-137 lol) from KIC846 and tries to free all of humanity from the evil Aliens that have humans enslaved on earth.
@@keithlaudeman6754 Aliens that come to the earth to free the nature enslaved by us 😎
Infunity war when they make stormbreaker lol
@Chairman Jao Bai Den yeah it really does suck :(( maybe if it was an indie film 🤔
*And after all that, NASA realized that a rock had gotten stuck in the lens.*
A piece of dust.
@@justsomecommunistwithinter2627 a microbial germ
@@RandomStufLemGD A top quark.
@@justsomecommunistwithinter2627 A Plank Particle
3:43 The guy who discovered this star must have have been very suprised... "WTF star"
Yes I was thinking about it 🤔😂😂
Well, she named her report "Where's the flux?" aka WTF. It's also called Tabby's Star.
@@stonkermcstonkerface4531 thanks for the info😌
@@stonkermcstonkerface4531 She may have been cheeky at the same time, though.
yes they are building a new extreme Demon , someone call Sunix !
hold on what
its called Dyson
What ur not a gd player but hi
Lol
Phoenix jaja si
dw guys its just thor building his new weapon
cDz Koshie damn your right
Rumour has it that it is exactly where Nevedelier has been calculated to be.
Oh ok thx
Wait
It's the Asgardians creating Thor's hammer. Duh.
But the asgardians weren't the ones who created his hammer?
Oh crap, that's right.
Weren't they all murdered by thanos?
No Name all but one
I think you mean “Stormbreaker” Since his hammer got destroyed by Thor’s Sister
And in infinity war he got his new weapon “Stormbreaker”
I've watched a documentary about this weird af star a few months ago and I remember that the people who observed the star classified it as a new type of star so it's indeed not an alien civilisation building a Dyson sphere to harvest it's star's energy but a star with many brightness dips. I've also heard that this was only the 1st case of discovering such a star but after that, scientists found a few more. They're just really rare special stars with dips of brightness. Sadly, no aliens :(
That not necessarily the case of no aliens. They will always go for natural argument over synthetic.
It's good no aliens man
@@warrior9326 why is it good?
Ik this is old, but i don't really believe they would tell us the truth
I actually love these series. As a paranormal enthusiest, this is great.
You call yourself an enthusiast, even tho you can’t spell it correctly
I can’t understand you
Help me get 10,000 subs with no videos what do you mean
You deleted your reply
Sorry, I suck at typing. Most of the time my mistakes go unnoticed by me.
Now I'm not nearly as smart as any of the individuals working on fluctuations of luminosity of stars. I believe that it is agreed that the distances to these stars is vast - several light years and the video does acknowledge that the possibility of planets has been discounted. Then there was talk of dust clouds and comets near the respective star and talk discounted the odds because of the size or number required. Here is my question. In the vastness of space, if an object passes closer to the observer, the object doesn't need to be nearly as big as to partially block the view of the distant star. As for the duration of the dimming - well couldn't this object be moving at a slow velocity? While I love the theory of aliens - it seems FAR more likely that debris - regardless of origin - is gonna get in the way of our view of some stars at some point, even if its our own hand blocking light to shade our eyes - our hand isn't big but if it is close enough to our eyes it can block most of the light. This seems far far far more likely than any alien theory although not nearly as entertaining.
Actually Its been proven that nothing could actually cause the 20% flux in light, the worlds experts have studied this star for half a century and still no plausible explanation. Actually the odds of advanced technology by another cosmic race is more likely than not. But the truth is we will never know until we advance our own studies and technology.
This was something that came to mind, but if it was something interstellar between us and the star, how would it block that specific line of sight multiple times? It would need to be in orbit around it. (Cannot be us because if it was the dip would not occur at some times of the year)
Agreed - it's far likelier to be some sort of natural event happening. And if you look back at the early days of our solar system, it was NOT uncommon for planets to collide repeatedly, over the course of maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany years. A century is nothing. For all we know it could be an extremely violent solar system, with massive planetary collisions on the regular. As much as part of me wants it to be aliens..... It's probably not aliens.
@@JulianUccetta or could it possibly just be as simple as relativity? Light bends around gravity and space. So could it just be a very large object, planet, comet, asteroid, anything that's bending the light and possibly has something orbiting that specific object which might be why it keeps going in and out? Idk I just started learning about this kind of stuff, so I could be wrong
@@fujio.4901 Yeah that's entirely in the realm of possibility. It's far more likely to be a completely natural phenomena than something like extra terrestrial life. Chances are, if there is intelligent life in our galaxy, or our local area of the galaxy, it's either a primitive form of intelligent life or an extinct one. But even that is hard to say as the distances between us and that star is so vast we have relatively little to do but speculate. It just makes more sense to jump to the logical solution rather than the far fetched solution at first.
A Dyson sphere with only part of the star covered, so the planet still gets light from the sun, and they get half of the suns energy.
MyMore MTG Harvard wants to know your location
The best design of a dyson sphere to exist. Naturally powers the solar sytem, and the sphere captures the energy that would've been waisted to be redirceted and spread across their solar colonies.
Only the back of the star should be enough.
It would be even better to put the dyson Sphere covering only the area of the star above and below the star system disc
Dyson Sphere. if that's what they are building, or were building 1,400 years ago , and if they were successful they may have harnessed enormous amounts of energy, and could possibly be starting to venture out into the galaxy by now =)
Or have already visited us
I think we are making a big jump in conclusion here.
oOr like SEA said it could just be an event we haven't seen or experienced yet...
@@brumpmoment5854 If a civilization with so massive technological advantage over us would have been here, they would have conquered this planet in a matter of hours.
@@brumpmoment5854 Why would they have come here? We have only had a radio presence for a little over 120 years, so enen our oldest, and weakest signals are only around 10% of the way there. How would a distant, pre-technological and radio-silent world be attractive?
amazing video, I just love the topics you pick. It is just interesting to listening to you and to think over said things, even tho it probaply isn't aliens.
The star is 1,400 light years away. Does this mean that the events witnessed were actually occurring 1,400 years ago? Due to the fact that thats how long it would take light from that sun to reach us. If it was indeed a structure being constructed around the sun by an alien race, then in actual time this race would be 1,400 years more advanced than we are observing. Right?
By that time the structure would’ve have been completed it’s construction
So SEA, I've seen a documentary about this and wanted to share the theory:
KIC 8462852 could be a binary star system, the most common type of star system, where two stars orbit each other in a shared movement. The star that is visible to us is a main sequence star, much like our Sun, but the object causing the light change cannot be another star, right? Wrong. The other star was a white dwarf, an extremely dense and hot object, which is what the Sun will become eventually, which has had it's outer gases such as hydrogen and helium sucked away by the other star, leaving the heavier materials such as carbon. It would be a giant diamond, really. Anyway, this object succumbed to the tidal force of the other star, tearing it apart, creating huge amounts of carbon chucks to orbit the star, causing the effect we observe.
This is just a theory but to me this is the most reasonable. You might not see this but I wanted to share this anyway. Good job on the video btw :)
Hmm tbh, I don't know if the tidal force would be enough to tear apart a white dwarf. I mean, white dwarves are pretty dense. Good theory anyway
I feel like binary stars would be extremely rare if they could just be toren apart like that...
That's because the white dwarf had less mass and spiralled in, normal binary stars are relatively the same mass.
Welp that was from the documentary so all I know is the white dwarf carbon thing spiralled in and got too close :/
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Technically it's "Built" coz it was 1400 years ago
true! imagine what they're up to now...
maybe they are using it to allow lightspeed travel
Or maybe they are extinct now
@@Max.pina1511 true maybe the super structure blocked out the sun for too long or absorbed too much energy and exploded
Imagine how many materials you would need 🤔
Yes and that civilization is the flat Crimson Planet society.
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Shut ur up
Lunar 🤣👌
Wtf is that?
I’m interested
3:17 lmao is that a subspace emissary ost?
1:19 do you mean malfunctioned?
I cant see how manufactured makes sense, but if you did mean manufactured please tell me how that cut it short.
I literally scrolled through all of the comments looking for someone else who noticed the same mistake. It was obviously a mispronunciation and I even replayed the part just to be sure I heard it right.
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@@gavinlanier2053 Ha me too.
It took little to know research’s but January fourth, 2019 it was found that a dust ring made from comets with variations of thickness was doing this, it wasn’t hard to imagine. When there are so many possibilities, I hate it when people jump to aliens for clicks.
Yeah a video made in 2018 was jumping to aliens for a quick click a whole year before researches found out it wasn't
Sounds like a cover up to me
Not many people can expand their content and have it be as high quality as their origins of fame, you're already well on your way to that well deserved 1 million subs. Amazing job Sea! Good luck with your channel's bright future :)
title should have "did a civilization" instead of "is a civilization". we're talking about 1400 light years, it'd be completed by now
No one knows what it is but if it is a alien structure then No one knows when they started it thus not being able to tell when it would be finished.
How do you know itd be finished? Thats an absurb assumption based on zero facts
@@shawnmclaughlin5886 a civilization big/intelligent enough to build a structure that big would be done by now, assuming if we are seeing the light of it in the process and its cause massive fluctuations in the data we are getting. I'm just assuming that its done due to how long ago it happened.
@@Dubbroo thats the point. You are assuming a lot of factors. For all we know the material capable of doing it is near impossible to synthesis and could take 2000 years to find enough for completion. I doubt its even possible for us to grasp the logistics of what would be going on. How to combat that kind of radiation and heat by itself is mindboggling. Not to mention have a material that can withstand those forces. All im saying is with absolutely no comparison you cant assume anything. Even though i assumed all my points lol
@@shawnmclaughlin5886 And you are assuming a lot too right there. cause for all we know, its already done. that's was what i was trying to say you ape. Not sure why you are against my assumption that it may already be done. like nigga chill lol. And saying that an extraterrestrial structure is blocking some light to begin with is absurd by its self. I can make my assumption based on assumptions too if i please m8. I just so believe that if an alien civilization is capable to build something that big, it probably wouldn't take them over 2000 years to complete based on how much their civilization has progressed in that time span. You can say all you want how I could be wrong but in reality it doesn't matter one bit cause you cant prove my assumption to be false one tiny bit.
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4:56 ayyyy I remember this tutorial by 4tutor! Man showed me how to blender!
hopefully you become a great non-GD UA-camr.
Meyx Agreed
He already is
you mean GDn't?
Meyx jaja si
What is GD
I'm not really a follower of this theory, what always makes me doubt it is one thing. If a civilisation has advanced so much it actually has the technology to build such a structure around a massive star, would it actually need to? I believe any lifeform that advanced would have already managed to produce an alternative technology capable of generating such power anyway, negating the need for such an elaborate and time consuming undertaking. Take humanity, we are able to reproduce nuclear fission with technology, rather than having to harness the power of a star to achieve it.
Chade Fallstar solar energy is low risk energy with no negative effects. If you build a machine to collect the energy around it you can get a ton of energy. Look at Chernobyl or global warming. Creating our own energy is bad
@@Cokk9ine but fission reactors arent reactor's wich blew up in chernobyl
@@sejmroz7355 It was a fissure reactor, but either way nuclear fission and fissure are not permanent solutions for energy, because of the impact that these energy production methods cause. Fusion using a megastructure around a star is the best way to harness energy in your solar system.
@@connorbalcombe3609 what impact does fission have i dont know about any
I'm not sure what you're getting at here dude with "reproduce nuclear fission with technology". It implies that in the future we can magic things into existence just because we're adavanced enough to travel into space. As far as I've learnt, nuclear fission uses uranium which is non-renewable. And by the time we get into space, we'll need MUCH more energy than what's available on Earth if we want to keep progressing.
Solar energy is literally "the best" renewable energy source we have right now and just because it's a pain in the arse to build a Dyson Sphere to harvest it, doesn't mean it isn't worth it or won't benefit us as much by the time we can do so. There's very few things in the universe that can give us as much energy as a star. You might have already heard of the Kardashev scale, I'd say have a look at that as it shows many decent ways for humanity to get lasting energy sources.
I don't buy into this theory either, but if your best reason is essentially (with respect) "Because in the future we'll have magic", then feel better dude. Because we won't and never will. Which means aliens won't either.
Hey, I wanted to ask if you could make a video about the great attractor in the near future. This is a object with a damn strong gravitation... Would be so awsome! I like this videos much more than your GD stuff. Keep going this way, even if you dont get so much views on them. The people who watch this videos are part of your community, which watches the videos because of you and not because of GD. :)
Well they may have already made it since it's too damn far
Probably
It's light years away, so if anything happened a 100 years ago and it is 100 light years far, we would see what happened 100 years ago.
@JestyJoshua 91.4 miles is just too close.
No. thats just darth vader trying to build a new death star
How bout we send another golden disk towards that star?
It would talk million years to reach it
@@zenzy3915 would it be 1600 years only? 1 light year is equal to 1 year here on Earth. Correct me if I'm wrong
Aron Smith the disk doesnt travel at light speed 😂
@@summerhodl haha I'm too dumb to think thank you hahaha
@@aronsmith4387 that's how long it would take light to reach it but when we are talking about a man made object it would take it a very long time example when we sent a gold disk it took it years to past puto so when we are talking about this start it would take many many years to finally reach it
Around Tabby's star I don't know but around my house it's a park
When our definition of Type I and II civilization doesn’t apply because a “Type II” would skip our current understanding of physics and can create energy or pull it from another dimension.
I can already tell that Sea will go down as the best youtuber ever.
{GD} CrazyDigga 2nd best next to Woahhh Vicky ;)
oh yeah forgot about that one lol
Lmfao i still laugh to that twerk-punch clusterfuck clip.
SEA no way lil tay is way better. She was in Atlanta broke, but one day, she started lifting bricks and now she's living in the hills
*Reaches for MA5B*
*Asks Cortanna to cancel my 12 O'clock*
*enlists in spaceforce*
*buys a green motorcycle helmet, draws 117 on the side*
Space... Mmmmm... My favourite science argument...
Oh hey redfox ur here (u probs dont remember me but k lol)
love this kind of vids, also because i'm really interested in outerspace
I’m really enjoying this new series. Great work as always Sea!
1:14 do you mean malfunctioned 🤣
4;58 After this Cataclysmic event there may be a bloodbath of aliens and I hope that the aftermath doesn't turn out to bad for them :)
pokemastermat Stop, these Aftercatabath memes aren't funny anymore smh.
[GD] Jazz you may be right but I hope AFTER you finish your MATH you'll appreciate my Bloodbath and cataclysm jokes :)
...and the *catharsis* that might follow would not be not too *catastrophic* or *problematic*
pokemastermat Ah, yeah, right. I forgot you had a minecraft profile picture. That gives you an extra 50 IQ points and a right to make AfterCataBath jokes, yeah.
Electroblade Stop please.
Don’t forget that everything we’re seeing at this star system happened more than a 1000 years ago...
Wow im depressed now
The WTF Star?
One possible reason why we do not detect radio signals from that start is that If a civilization has been building a Dyson sphere for at least 1000 years it is possible that by the time we became able to detect radio signals, that civilization long stopped using any technology that emits radio signals, and they use a more efficient way to communicate, such as laser or something else. It is possible that they stopped emitting radio thousands of years ago.
Yo dude, absolutely amazing video, such interesting topics. Just don't care about the views, your non-GD series will start getting more views, it's just a matter of time at this point of video quality. Great job. :)
Now he's getting some views
@@opmab5941 Kann man so sagen ja
What if something or someone is using the brightness fluctuations as a signal. Like a lighthouse or a code of some sort
Denality then they’ve called the wrong niggas 😂 we can’t do shit 🤣
Detergen Packets they contacting the ass eating humans
Eyyyyyy a new OOTW
reading comments here saying it’s been discovered and classified as a new type of star, and that others have been found.
which to me is rather satisfying, because i wasn’t really buying the whole dyson sphere thing
You should do an episode on “The Phobos Incident” ;)
Uncle Dodo what, was it secretly verified by accident or something? Lol
Or What? It’s a legit space incident, nothing to do with Geometry Dash
Uncle Dodo I know, was just a joke
Or What? Now I look like the idiot XD
What, the Cabal being taken by mass? (Yes, its a Destiny joke)
Have they thought of the possibility of a black hole nearby the star absorbing photons? We already know that black holes can't be spotted with ease and they absorb light, thus it might be the reason for this abrupt luminosity decrease.
Scientists have recently figured out how to detect black holes which is why we have discovered so many super massive black holes recently. I’m sure that’s one of the first theories to hit the chopping block but it is curious why they didn’t mention it in the video
Amazing video sea hope you continue on makeing GD and other things like this
love your channel keep it up
The videos in your channel are unbelievable good, this one has been my favorite, keep up the amazing work!!!
The tabbys star episode was aaaages ago but im still so happy you also like this type of stuff 👊🏻😇
If this is aliens, then it would have already happened all those light years ago.
Who knows, if it is aliens, then they probably colonized their region of space, or died out due to war.
@@metapod1357 which means there is some other aliens that defeated them in war
@@ZeloticMemes he didnt say it was a war between different alien species
We could be going through a phase where all the aliens understand that there should be other aliens but can’t reach or talk to them yet so they focus on building forth like we should
Need an update on this one.
More intersting than your GD vids imo. Keep it up!
Decided to start watching your videos from oldest to newest while I patiently await your next masterpiece. I did not expect your words per minute to jump to 2x your more recent uploads. I don't mean this as a criticism, I just had the "oh 😳" reaction haha. You're among my very favorite channels on UA-cam 🌌
This was the second space video I ever made and unfortunately everyone has to start somewhere. I learned video editing while I was becoming a space youtuber and not before so yes all the old videos are crap, badly paced and edited and generally not very good. Sorry about that. Btw have you seen I uploaded just the other day?
@@sea_space I have! I'm not sure if I saw the discord or the UA-cam notification first, but I clicked right away! I meant my comment in a playful spirit, not as criticism 🙏🏾. We grow and we learn in everything we continue to do in life. I really value your videos, especially how you create a narrative that carries from one to the next. Dark Matter>Dark Energy, Edge>Beyond the edge, Collisions>terrestrials>Gas Giants, etc. I'm revisiting your earlier work to experience your journey as it evolved similar to how the series does. Much love, sorry if it didn't convey as such in my previous comment 🫡
Yeah I didn’t mean it to sound like you offended me! It’s very true the videos aren’t the greatest quality. Back then I was working a job so I was only really creating at night and spending 1/2 days on videos powered by coffee. Now as I’m sure you know I spend like a month approaching them and trying to take my time. Would be better if I could upload more because then I could remake some of those old videos but I quite like the whole process
I may move to sea's channel for a space facts
Lol good one
What I don't understand about a Dyson sphere; if you build one, you'll block the light of your sun and your planet and everything on it will freeze to death.
No light, no heat.
Unless you dig in beforehand worldwide, _Caves of steel_ style, and _then_ build a Dyson sphere.
Or am I missing something? I'm no scientist but I like to know these things.
Scientist: located a ring world
Master chief: *Heavy Breathing*
Master chief: I need a weapon
Trying only to imagine what it would take to build a mega structure around our planet, it is absolutely mindblowing to picture where and how a civilization would get all the material for such an incredibly enormous construction. This definitely gives fuel to ideas of futuristic sci-fi.
Ootw means [out of this world] if u did not know
This would be so cool. I imagine finding life in the universe is similar to trying to find another castaway in the ocean, drifting through a sea of nothing. Even if you did find it you would be unable to communicate with anyone as if you were trying to shout over a storm.
i'll never understand why the alien theory is always rejected so easily
Probably due to the fact that we have yet to encounter anything truly alien, if I had to guess.
We learn more by being skeptic than just attributing things to "just aliens doing alien things"
its because blaming something on aliens is the equivalent of saying why is the sky blue and awnsering because God made it that way
I believe it’s because humans just want to think that they are all powerful and unique that they are the only species when that is mathematically impossible.
Imagine the sheer amount of material needed for even super thin Dyson structure. We'd have to mine out planets and asteroid belts. I wonder what would be more feasible. Since it's basically about collecting the star's output, why not built "Dyson plates" that are unconnected (or loosely connected) and put into orbit around the star, instead of one single big structure? You could add such orbital plates bit by bit as they were being completed and put them into the same orbit (at different rotation spots). Maybe far later along, when you had a large number of such plates, you could start connecting them up, filling gaps and forming the actual mega structure.
Dude, that’s Nidavelir from infinity war (idk how to spell it)
Except that Nidavellir was built around a neutron star.
@@Zymasis39_ uhh
Alien civilizations are using stars as we use CPU cores. "Yo my simulation has 280 cores!"
Its no moon, thats a space station!
Where would an alien civilization get the materials to build a mega structure, large enough to engulf their Sun? Clearly the structure itself would have to be MILLIONS of times the volume of ALL the material on their home planet. Even admitting that this civilization is smarter and more capable than humanity, by astronomical orders of magnitude, how would they gather or harvest the material, the "stuff", to build something like a Dyson's sphere? I always wondered if that is even possible. The civilization would have to harvest and mine materials from MILLIONS of other planets! How many of the surrounding planets would even have materials made of the same basic elements, elements that are compatible with with what their structure is built of? Even if all this was possible, wouldn't it take a civilization, literally MILLIONS of years to build this type of structure? After an inconceivable length of time like THAT, is there any civilization that wouldn't change so much over time, that they would either lose interest in a project like this, or simply have no use for it over time? The only way I can believe in a theory like this, is if the civilization in question, is LITERALLY IMMORTAL! I believe that only ETERNAL LIFE (or a life span longer than we can imagine), could motivate a civilization to build such a thing. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I truly think it is so improbable, as to border on science fiction, the: "FICTION" part, remaining so for all eternity. The universe is stranger than anything we can imagine and ANYTHING is possible, even God. I think that only God could build something like this, and IF God exists, he, she or it, would have no use for such a structure.
The aliens are building a dyson sphere
Boborito Dorito yep
Great video again SEA!
5:00
Where can I get this in Gif format? ^^
1890.. what type of telescope did we have then
Jojo Ripley maybe a small lenses or just the naked eye, not sure
You deserve more subscribers dude, I watch your videos while stoned lol ... it opens my mind
A lot of the inspiration for these episodes comes when I’m in the same mindset! 😂 cheers man 👊
What if the star is just extremely big, and when giant planets collide with it, it’s so big it eats it up, emits the light, and expands, and repeats
Joey Leal would it eat it and grow? If so that’s a cool guess
@@Jordan-ok7mj Yeah that's exactly my theory on it
Makes me think... If we were to make substantial progress on a Dyson sphere, if and when when the difference in light fluctuations reach other civilizations, would that be essentially a beacon to them saying "we exist, are on the rise, and most likely have completed building a dyson structure." That would be a pretty spooky unintended consequence.
4:39 when you can't think of a user name
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ok fine. we admit it this is a harnessing area and we built sort of a cosmic fence around tabby's star to keep the civilization from venus away from it
thats an expensive fence!
If you look at the star from the telescope wouldn't that mean that you are looking the star back in time because of the long distance.
Yes it's technically time travel
@@devonhoward4358 No its not, you are just seeing old light because light takes time to travel. It's not "technically" tine travel, that is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
@@connorbalcombe3609 yes that literally means it's time travel dumb fuck when we look up in the stars we are seeing thousand or millions or billions of years in the passed take you stupid uneducated ass somewhere else if you are gonna be this stupid then agree with me because I didnt go into detail
Devon Howard unfortunately you are wrong. We are simply seeing old light and we are not time travelers because we see it. It’s like recording a video and then watching it the next day, you still see something from the past but you yourself are not travel in any direction in time besides forward
@@kylejohnson8462 well you see something that happend in the past, then you are technically traveling your visions through back in time wich makes you time travel.
The real question to ask would be
Is there enough mass in the solar system to build a dyson sphere around the sun? I know that Ceres is a large amount of the total mass of just the asteroid belt and it itself is smaller than our moon. Our biggest planets aren't solid so nothing to build with from them, we're literally screwed as a civilization unless our ancestors on planet 9 come back and pick us up on the next orbit.
What if someone built the “moon” around maybe an artifact or something
The irregularity and randomness of the fluctuations in the light data doesn't exactly look consistent enough to be structural. I would think a structure (especially a lattice-like structure) would obscure more complex and noticeable dips.
i really like these Non-Gd videos. :D
GG Slushy jaja si
Megastructure is unrealistic because you would need to harvest millions of planets just to get a quarter of material to build that. A different source of power would be found before collecting this many materials.
at 1:15 you say "when it manufactured in 2012". I reckon it's an autocorrect of 'malfunctioned'. I should get some sleep.
They're good videos :)
Old video, it is already confirmed the dimming was due to dust, not some kind of structure.
YO he's using the Smash Bross. Brawl subsace emissary map music lol
Wouldn't this be a good way to try to contact other civilisations out there? For an example if we temporarily manage to block the light from our sun in a specific direction for a short moment then unblock it, would other advanced civilizations be able to pick that up and realise its not a natural thing? So we could tell people we are out here at the speed of light.
Yeah it would be good but we’d need a big ass object to do that, like way bigger than any human could ever build.
@@wolfetteplays8894 only big does not have to be thick
1:15 you meant "Malfunctioned" right? Lol. Damn Auto Correct T9 BS.
The recommended articles in the rightmost section at 9:35 don't seem very relevant to the one currently being viewed.
This series is 'out of this world'
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It's not possible to be honest... Because this means the current fluctuations which we are observing are actually 1400 years old. This means that "Alien" civilization must have started building it 1400+ years before and which might have been completed and in fully operational by now.
Sea the science teacher
Ze Best Bagguet SEA's videos have taught me more than my science teacher. No joke.
not trying to pop anyone's bubble on this matter, but there is something I'd like to point out that I don't believe was considered in the given the explanations. the star has been observed since the 1890s, and even then the scientists had the ability to measure the amount of light given off by stars. admittedly, this was likely less accurate than the readings we have now, it could still give us a rough idea of the light level variations back then. comparing them to our findings now would allow us to reconsider the possibilities of an alien civilization.
If the light emitted now during the dimmer segment of this star's odd cycle is even dimmer than the light emitted in the 1890s, then clearly something is causing more light to be blocked indicating the blockage is getting larger, allowing the possibility of a dyson sphere being constructed.
inversely, if its brighter in the dimmest part of the cycle now than it was in the 1890s or it remains the same, then the blockage is shrinking/not changing, eliminating the Dyson sphere construction possibility. the only likely explanation to this anomaly that I can think of would be that there's a super planet orbiting this star causing the light to be blocked out.
in addition to this though, constructing a Dyson sphere will have cataclysmic effects on the planets surrounding the star. the lack of light, or the restriction of the light would cause severe temperature drops on the planets. if we constructed a sphere around our star, then earth would freeze over because our "Goldilocks zone" would shrink, if not completely vanish.
with this in mind, rather than building a full sphere, one could build a ring around the star instead, or possibly 2. this would cause only a fraction of temperature deviation, and in turn, not devastate the planets (or at least not as badly), thus its still possible it could be a structure of some sort, but this also means that if someone built a ring around their sun, and we're looking at a finished project, then the civilization could be much MUCH older than our estimates could even hope to predict.
Are you happy UA-cam? I watched it, now stop suggesting it!
The problem I have with alien mega-structures is: Where did they get the materials to build something on that scale? Even a small star would require material from millions of stars for such an undertaking. How would you mine on that scale? How would you transport that much material thousands of light years to the star's system? (You would definitely have to use planets thousands of light years away to get enough material).
This is the reason why it seems like the least likely explanation.