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Harvard professor:Metallic spheres found on Pacific floor are interstellar in origin
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:40 pm
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Ever since he first learned about the strange meteor falling to Earth, astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been determined to discover whether it was indeed an extraterrestrial artifact that had crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
Now, the professor and theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University says he and a team of scientists are one step closer to making that determination after they retrieved suspected remnants of the meteor in June off the coast of Papua New Guinea. On Tuesday, Loeb said in a media release that early analysis suggests that those small metallic objects actually are interstellar in origin.
It's happening
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Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:40 pm to Jim Rockford
DO NOT OPEN THEM
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:42 pm to Jim Rockford
Rock that came from space is made of material from space.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:42 pm to Jim Rockford
This guy's been reading too much Michael Crichton.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:43 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
Exactly, interstellar doesn’t mean there’s an alien inside.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:44 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
remnants of the meteor
quote:
small metallic objects actually are interstellar in origin
Wouldn't they be interstellar if they are from a meteor?
Also, doesn't metal tend to form into spherical shapes when dropped through the air into water? That's how they make shotgun pellets.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:44 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
quote:
Rock that came from space is made of material from space.
No wonder he's at Harvard. He thinks good.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:46 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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DO NOT OPEN THEM
Are you crazy?!? You can’t let them incubate!!!
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:48 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:49 pm to Jim Rockford
More than likely he is a nutty professor.
Glomar Explorer Wiki. Hughes and the CIA. I remember when Howard Hughes and the CIA built the Glomar Explorer to grab manganese nodules off of the Pacific floor.
Side Fact : A customer, friend and fishing friend of mine owned one of the biggest sling companies in the world at that time. ( slings to lift oilfield stuff)
He would certify the large slings that would be used to set platforms in the oilfield. One lift. Then they had to buy some new ones or Lloyd’s wouldn’t insure the lift.
He fabricated a hydraulic machine with weight indicators that could test the slings.
He used the massive hydraulic rams that operated the moon pool on the Glomar Explorer to stretch his stuff.
Bought them for a song as salvage and made millions with those rams. All n Harvey,La..
Glomar Explorer Wiki. Hughes and the CIA. I remember when Howard Hughes and the CIA built the Glomar Explorer to grab manganese nodules off of the Pacific floor.
Side Fact : A customer, friend and fishing friend of mine owned one of the biggest sling companies in the world at that time. ( slings to lift oilfield stuff)
He would certify the large slings that would be used to set platforms in the oilfield. One lift. Then they had to buy some new ones or Lloyd’s wouldn’t insure the lift.
He fabricated a hydraulic machine with weight indicators that could test the slings.
He used the massive hydraulic rams that operated the moon pool on the Glomar Explorer to stretch his stuff.
Bought them for a song as salvage and made millions with those rams. All n Harvey,La..
This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 2:58 am
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:52 pm to Jameson2954
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Exactly, interstellar doesn’t mean there’s an alien inside.
Yeah but it is how the aliens created the dome in Battleship.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:55 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:
those small metallic objects actually are interstellar in origin.
Inter-between
stellar-the stars
I'm not a Harvard astrophysicist, but just on a hunch: I'm pretty sure the earth and everything on it, in it, or in the general vicinity would match that definition including this
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:55 pm to Jim Rockford
Found 700 submillimeter spherules that need a microscope to look at. Only news is that they are not an alloy found in nature on earth.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:56 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:59 pm to Jim Rockford
There's a huge difference between sphere and spheroid.
If a sphere, we're fricked.
If a sphere, we're fricked.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:59 pm to Athis
Wait so they found 700 microscopic objects with a fricking magnet sled 53 miles off the coast in the ducking ocean
I’m calling bullshite
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Seven months later, he and his team were 53 miles off the coast of Manus Island combing more than 100 miles of ocean floor with a sled full of magnets attached to a winch on the deck of the ship. As fortune would have it, they found what they were looking for: more than 700 submillimeter-sized spherules through 26 runs with the sled that are so miniscule as to require a microscope to see.
I’m calling bullshite
This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:59 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
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Rock that came from space is made of material from space.
Amazing.
They also said the material is not from our solar system. At the very least, the odds of something from that far away traveling across the galaxy and hitting presumably the only planet with intelligent life in the universe have to be pretty remarkable.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 4:59 pm to Jim Rockford
It the first vibranium discovered outside of wakanda.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 5:01 pm to Jim Rockford
So they're...Space Balls?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 5:08 pm to upgrayedd
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So they're...Space Balls?
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