[ WP ] A small alien craft is discovered to be orbiting very close to the sun at extreme speeds . Once recovered by humans , it is revealed to be an advanced observatory platform taking advantage of time dilation to view our solar system in `` fast forward ''

Umm... 
 
 If we have a spaceship orbiting at the radius of the sun ( 695500 km ), to get the orbital period short enough for a Lorentz factor of **2** ( 2x speed, nowhere near what such thin would need ), which for we need the speed of.866 c, we need it to be 0.06 seconds. The mass of the ship to get such period would have to be: 
 
 **2.8346 * 10^10 ( ~30 billion ) times the mass of the sun. ** 
 
 Of course, you could have a giant engine keeping it on its super-fast orbit, but to combat the centripetal force, assuming 11 tonnes for the mass, we would need a constant force of: 
 
 **10^12 ( a trillion ) N** 
 
 That's six orders of magnitude ( a billion times ) the power of the most powerful rocket engine ever built. 
 
 The math does n't check out. I'm sorry.
