They wouldn&#x27;t necessarily live on a planet --- planets are a really inefficient may to make real estate. Much easier to live on the collectors themselves.<p>Assuming that &#x27;live&#x27; is a useful term; thing about aliens is that they&#x27;re going to be alien. Star Trek has conditioned us to think of aliens as humans in rubber suits, but real aliens are going to be anything but. We don&#x27;t even know if it&#x27;s a &#x27;they&#x27;; it could be an &#x27;it&#x27;.<p>If this <i>is</i> an artifact, then all it tells us is that they (or it) builds tools and likes energy. This suggests an inner-solar-system species like us, as living where things are fast and hot. But that&#x27;s not necessarily a given. It could be a cold and slow outer-solar-system species doing something uncharacteristic. Or a plasma-based solar species. Or maybe it&#x27;s something that&#x27;s actually <i>weird</i>.<p>I know this is going to turn out to be rocks moving oddly, just like everything else, but I&#x27;m still really interested to see what the results of the radio telescope survey&#x27;s going to be...