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orbat  ·  2705 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Alien megastructures' debunked. Why are we so quick to assume it's aliens?KIC 8462852

Interesting. Any idea how it ended up being so secular (although apparently it's less so nowadays)? I read a few other articles and I really couldn't tell it's somehow associated with Christian Science; I'd expect a paper originally started by a fairly, well, crank-y offshoot of Christianity to be wildly different.





user-inactivated  ·  2704 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So, I've done some poking around and I honestly don't know. Like I said earlier, I really can imagine it going either direction. That said, I poked around the site a bit last night and the articles aren't half bad. I think I'll put it in my weekly news rotation (it doesn't seem to update often enough for me to check it daily).

I'm sorry I don't have a concrete answer.

orbat  ·  2704 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm sorry I don't have a concrete answer.

Absolutely not a problem. Appreciate you taking the time

user-inactivated  ·  2705 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I honestly don't know if it's always been a secular paper or if it started out as something different and evolved over the decades. It really could be either. I think I'll try and look into it and I'll let you know what I find.