re: Harvard's astronomy dept chair is more convinced than ever that Oumuamua is alien craft

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Hey Thine: I guess you think Fox News is real? You sound like a dumb Trumpster

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I think most everything is fake...

I concede victory to whatever “team” you root for

Has professor Giorgio A. Tsokoulas confirmed?

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ThinePreparedAni

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Don't you have some Q update to give the poli board?

Why the hate for TPA, he's good people that just has a mind that's WAY outside the standard box.

Even if his thinking is different than yours, someone that thinks on uncommon levels should be admired to some degree.

Yet here you are not caring...

So the other day I was driving my truck and I noticed oak leaves in my truck bed being kicked around by the wind. I was puzzled about how the oak leaves got in the bed of the truck since I park under a carport. Then I realized and thought to myself, "We have a large oak tree in the yard and a strong wind must have blown the leaves into the truck bed". The leaves are currently falling and we had some very windy days recently. Mystery solved. I'm so smart.

I told my dad about the leaves and how I figured they got into the truck bed.

He informed me that he borrowed my truck early that morning to pick up some bags of leaves that he found on side of the road, which he already put in his garden.

The point is we don't know what we don't know and we draw conclusions based on what we do know, but we know very little, particularly about the universe and how it works.

Damn, maybe Harvard's Astronomy Dept. Chair should've referenced tigerdroppings.com in his research, there's some baws here that have it all figured out.

His list of credentials is thick AF dude. Pretty sure he knows his shite.

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its trajectory cannot be explained by any natural forces in space.

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Well, according to Einstein’s general relativity, gravity isn’t a force; it’s an effect of mass warping spacetime. But it certainly does explain the object’s trajectory. It’s random and subject to the influence of any gravity well it comes close to, such as the sun.

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Of course the object is influenced by the gravity of the sun, and surrounding planets, but what he is saying is that when analyzed mathematically the path traveled by this object is not the path that would result from just the gravitational influence of the sun and planets, some other force such as on board propulsion would have to be contributing to it.

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The point is we don't know what we don't know and we draw conclusions based on what we do know, but we know very little, particularly about the universe and how it works.

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You essentially went through the scientific method.

You made an observation, formulated a hypothesis, and then tested it.

This is exactly what happened in the OP. With one-off observations like this, you can end up with some pretty wild hypotheses, and you cant really test them to confirm or refute. Occam's razor says it probably isn't some intelligent life form, but it is unusual. This guy made a statement that raises eyebrows, and now thousands of researchers will be observing trying to find other objects similar to this one, and our chances of finding another to study more in depth go up.

Then we test the hypothesis. It's science. A constant work in progress.

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Damn, maybe Harvard's Astronomy Dept. Chair should've referenced tigerdroppings.com

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I had the same thought lol.

Harvard clearly should’ve reached out to League Champs. He’d have helped them with that learning thing.

League Champs is also probably the guy sitting on his couch every Saturday/Sunday convinced if they’d just put him in he’d get that yard on 3 and 1.