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How can a ship 100 km in diameter cause any significant dimming of a star, which is 21,980,000 km in diameter? It would have to be pretty close to here and lined up just so perfectly.

Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet?




The moon is smaller than the sun, and yet still we have eclipses. It's just a matter of perspective.

The object[s] would have to be lined up. That's why an artificial object intentionally traveling to Earth is in some sense more plausible than an asteroid, which could be headed in any direction.


Why would it be only one object? It could be a belt of random sizes and shaped asteroids that is between us and the star?


Or the entire Vogon fleet?


"Ok, one last time... these are small, but the one's out there are far away" - Fr. Ted Crilly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0


> Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet?

Specifity bias. It "feels" more probable to have object going here because someone send it here, than to just have object going here.


Because we're brainstorming here! They're not assuming anything.

But yes, that's exactly the theory, that the starship is somewhere between us and them, and it sometimes dips into the focal point of light.




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