TO: Hrkajan Science Central
I last contacted you less than a templas ago (June 16, 2016, local Earth date) regarding Earth’s discovery of the energy-collecting oculon we are constructing around our star. Earth Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian reported her studies in an online forum called Ted Talk in February, 2016, and speculated that the reduction in light from our star might be due to construction of a megastructure called a “Dyson sphere” (what we call an oculon). Astronomers thereafter dubbed Hrkajan “Tabby’s Star,” though its official Earth astronomical designation is KIC 8462852.
Boyajian’s report generated so much interest that astronomers pursued a private funding campaign to purchase time on one of Earth’s few high-powered telescopes. I understand such an endeavor seems like a pathetic and ridiculous approach to scientific inquiry, but that is how things frequently work on this planet.
I had hoped that the funding campaign would fail, and that would be the end of the focus on our development of the oculon. Unfortunately, the opposite has developed. The campaign has already generated more than $100,000 (a large but not amazing sum of “money” for this planet), but they aren’t done yet.
Earlier this year, Bradley Schaefer with Louisiana State University published studies of photographic plates that had captured Hrkajan going back to the 19th century. He reported a long-term dimming in the light from the star by nearly 20 percent over the past (Earth) century.
Most recently, On 65783.123.12 (Earth date August 3, 2016), Benjamin Montet with the California Institute of Technology and Joshua Simon with Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington released their study of the star that analyzed data from Earth’s Kepler space telescope over the past four years. They have discovered that our star has been decreasing in brightness at an unprecedented rate. (Deborah Byrd in Space, earthsky.com, August 13, 2016)
Following is a direct quote from the article:
“That result might suggest a megastructure in the process of being built, hiding more and more of the star’s light from our view.”
I can’t stress to you what a danger Earth’s interest might pose for our civilization at some time in the future. Earth is not yet capable of interstellar travel, but as I mentioned in my earlier communique, humans have a history of making major technological leaps when motivated to do so.
I recommend we take immediate steps to disguise the oculon. The scientific community on this planet is too dispersed and disorganized for me to mount an effective disinformation campaign on my own. While many noted astronomers do not accept the theory that an artificial structure is being built around “Tabby’s Star,” given enough time and mounting evidence, Earth scientists are bound to realize the truth at some point.
Once they do, I have no doubt they will expend great effort to contact us, to our great detriment. This is an illogical and violent species.
Respectfully,
Akij Zimth, Earth Observation Unit
