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Posted on 3/19/19 at 8:56 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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Can we discuss Oumuamua?
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WaWaWeeWa
Checks out.
Posted on 3/19/19 at 8:57 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Never heard of this cat
Posted on 3/19/19 at 8:59 pm to Da Sheik
I thought tDonald fired her again?
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:01 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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It was basically just siting in interstellar space and our galaxy passed through it. This has never been observed before.
Velocity is relative.
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4. When it passed close to our sun it changed trajectory
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The deviation is small (a tenth of a percent) but highly statistically significant
Wow it really changed trajectory!
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:01 pm to jcaz
Maybe. But They say it would be consistent with a solar sail made by intelligent life.
I think the message in a bottle theory is interesting. Let’s say some civilization sent these out all around the universe. They float around and move in strange ways when light hits them so that intelligent life would be able to recognize that.
Maybe there is some type of message in it that would tell us how to communicate
I think the message in a bottle theory is interesting. Let’s say some civilization sent these out all around the universe. They float around and move in strange ways when light hits them so that intelligent life would be able to recognize that.
Maybe there is some type of message in it that would tell us how to communicate
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:02 pm to WaWaWeeWa
That's a intergalactic dildo.
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:03 pm to dbeck
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Velocity is relative
Correct but it is moving very slow relative to all other stars that could have ejected it.
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens baw
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:04 pm to Bustedsack
InB4 it’s the BBC headed for my mom
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:05 pm to WaWaWeeWa
That’s just a big frozen space turd that got dropped out of an intergalactic airliner (they look like DC-8s)
This post was edited on 3/19/19 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:05 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Those are some big logical leaps being made there.
"This is mathematically very rare, therefore it shouldn't happen.. and aliens".
"This is mathematically very rare, therefore it shouldn't happen.. and aliens".
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:10 pm to BeepNode
Can you explain the movement? Because people that do this for a living can’t
This post was edited on 3/19/19 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:16 pm to dbeck
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It was basically just siting in interstellar space and our galaxy passed through it. This has never been observed before. Velocity is relative.
I never read where it was stationary and our solar system passed across it. I read that it came from above our solar system very quickly, looped around the sun then accelerated back out to space at a 90 degree angle. The thing that preplexed observers was that its acceleration wasn’t due to off-gassing like comets. Also, never understood why they talked about how reflective it was, but the artist rendering made it look like a freaking big brown rock...
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:17 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Not aliens
Well, likely not aliens. Still an awesome object.
Well, likely not aliens. Still an awesome object.
This post was edited on 3/19/19 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:40 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Too bad we don’t have the ability to go and retrieve it. How big is it?
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:52 pm to jcaz
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Too bad we don’t have the ability to go and retrieve it.
We technically could get machinery to it next year large enough to perform scans, drill into it, take some samples, and send the data back.
Posted on 3/19/19 at 9:58 pm to BeepNode
We need to. This is far too interesting.
Plus it’s only a few football fields long
Plus it’s only a few football fields long
Posted on 3/19/19 at 10:07 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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Can you explain the movement? Because people that do this for a living can’t
No, but physicists can't even explain or directly observe 80% of the matter in the known universe. We just know it's there because of how it distorts the 20% that we can observe.
It could be that we simply couldn't detect the natural phenomenon that boosted the object as it came around the sun, like we normally would with a comet's gas tail. The temperature change would be fairly significant coming around the Sun like that so who knows how the metal would react.
It doesn't really make sense for a space faring race to use these objects. It would likely be very crude compared to the technology available a civilization capable of putting something like that out there.
Posted on 3/19/19 at 10:09 pm to BeepNode
Wat
Posted on 3/19/19 at 10:17 pm to WaWaWeeWa
What’s sad is if this were a “message in a bottle” object, it’s creators assumed that if observed by a civilization, they would also have the capability to capture/explore the object. Unfortunately the civilization that would be in its relative area are too caught up in hurt feelings and cow farts and don’t have time nor capability/funding to explore an object that is not from our system.
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