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    When was the first computer bug discovered?

    Oric1 still have it in the loft somewhere. A few years later we upgraded to a C64...
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    A KIC 8462852 (dipping again in March 2018)

    If you're going to consider the Dyson structure hypothesis (and dodging it really isn't going to do you any favours) you'd have to talk in terms of needs rather than wants, the sheer investment in time, material and who knows what other resources would preclude just about anything else. If they...
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    A KIC 8462852 (dipping again in March 2018)

    So cometnado has morphed into supermegacomet, though I'm not convinced by the evaporation rate. Then there's magneto-phase-thingy-avalanche if you can make head or tail of it. Or 2 megastructures in the habitable zone with frozen backsides...
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    A KIC 8462852 (dipping again in March 2018)

    Mass of the object(s) appears to be negligible. Ref the original paper section 2.6
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    A KIC 8462852 (dipping again in March 2018)

    Wild speculation perhaps but given the habitable zone for an F3 star is around 3au with a period of ~1500 days is it possible that we're looking at 2 structures on roughly opposite sides of the star? That should cancel out the wobble from tidal shifts though why you'd need to do that is another...
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