On: 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investi...

[wolverine876]

> a) Why would aliens expend the enormous energy required to engineer this?

Maybe they built the system, and being lazy like we are they chose some simple numbers

> b) Isn't it vastly more likely to occur naturally as some sort of resonance effect?

Alien intelligence may be less likely than a natural effect, but alien intelligence in this system is much more likely than in a random system.

[whatisthis9 → wolverine876]

Maybe we are looking at a case of alien artificial intelligence, e.g. the classic hollywood scenario where an alien society was eventually replaced by sentient AI(e.g. kaylons, cylons, etc).