I don't know if the stars that make up the dippers are near each other or just line up because of the position we view them from. Since interstellar travel is likely an impossibility perhaps an advanced alien civilization sent the only message it could by spawning suns in a pattern?
2007-10-31 12:46:24 · 5 answers · asked by Oxl 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yeah I suspected they only have that shape from our perspective, bummer. So what portion of our galaxy can see them as dipper shapes? (ouch it hurts trying to come up with that formula)
Spawning a sun is more feasible than interstellar travel especially if the building blocks are already in place. My theoretical civilization could have at least started the ball rolling for suns to be created.
2007-10-31 13:14:16 · update #1
Oh and the shape could have been what was easiest to form the first time - the second one was from another advanced civ trying to emulate the first.
2007-10-31 13:16:14 · update #2
Hi. They are signs of intelligent life on Earth.
2007-10-31 12:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where to begin with this one?
Firstly, you're assuming that the saucepan is an interstellar emblem used to signal other civilisations. If it is, we must be an extremely advanced civilisation to have one in every kitchen.
Secondly, the stars that make up those two patterns are at completely random parts of the sky. Some of the stars in the Big Dipper are associated and are moving more or less together, but others are moving in the opposite direction. The stars of the Little Dipper are mostly unrelated.
Thirdly, I'm sure they could find an easier way to send messages about their presence than "spawning suns". You make it sound so easy.
2007-10-31 12:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The stars in the dippers are NOT close to each other,they appear that way because of our perspective.
From your question I can see you are intelligent enough to realize the impossibility of interstellar travel,yet you pose the question of moving and placing the stars around as some way to communicate to us .Its an original thought at least,( I've never thought of it)but beyond that.....come on! surely you can't be serious.
2007-10-31 12:49:52 · answer #3 · answered by Mark K 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are in very different locations and many light years apart from each other. They just happen to line up like that from our location.
I don't think that any intelligence is going to be able to move sun loads of hydrogen to locations many light years apart and light them just to make us think about a constellation.
It is a feature of human imagination that a random set of points can be visualised as being in constellations.
2007-10-31 12:55:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They are stars which have probably burned out by now.
2007-10-31 12:55:08 · answer #5 · answered by coffee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋