Sometimes I love to say ‘I told you so,’ though in the world of science it’s more like ‘I gave you a high probability of this plausible scenario.’  A little while back a story broke about a star called KIC 8462852, with a strange ring of material surrounding it.  One potential explanation was that an extraterrestrial civilization has constructed a giant ring to harvest it’s home star’s energy.  Though this was one of a dozen possible explanations, it of course gathered the most steam among the general populace. In a statement today, officials from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) confirmed that...