Oumuamua (Updated) (1 Viewer)

[Tapxe]

Just a rock or first contact coming?

Astronomers around the world chased after the mysterious space rock with their telescopes, collecting as much data as they could as it sped away. Their observations revealed a truly unusual object with puzzling properties. Scientists have long predicted an interstellar visitor would someday coast into our corner of the universe, but not something like this.

“The more I study this object, the more unusual it appears, making me wonder whether it might be an artificially made probe which was sent by an alien civilization,” Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department and one of Milner’s advisers on Breakthrough Listen, wrote in the email to Milner.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science...milner-oumuamua-interstellar-asteroid/547985/

 

[tomwaits]

just a rock

 

[Complex Kid]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

"first contact"? where you been man?

 

[GW93]

It's early. Good thing we have a few humpback whales left to tell it what to go do with itself.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

just a rock

That's what they want you to think...........
I, for one, welcome our rock probe alien overlords...

 

[superchuck500]

It's almost certainly natural, but the fact that you have some of the world's top astronomers openly asking questions based on their observations is truly fascinating. These aren't the fringe guys you see on TLC - this is the Harvard Astronomy Chair.

It's the closest we have come to a plausible demonstration of intelligence beyond our solar system that has happened in our lifetimes, and certainly by modern standards. We have an object that comes from beyond our solar system that our top astronomers are saying "this is so unusual that we are going to examine it for technology."

If we don't find anything, it's still interesting and unique (at this point) but not the redefining event it would be if we did find evidence of technology. But for a few moments in time, right now, that's an open question. And that's ******* cool.

 

[rob22278]

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

is there any reason it looks so much like the Doomsday Machine from Star Trek TOS?

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

 

[MLU]

Pick it up today of you want to know how this ends...

 

[Sandman]

It's early. Good thing we have a few humpback whales left to tell it what to go do with itself.

Yeah, but if it is looking for a T-Rex, we are hosed.

 

[purvis_guy]

I'd probe it.

 

[Brennan77]

We've got it under control.

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[RetroMcBananaFace]

Yeah, but if it is looking for a T-Rex, we are hosed.

they are not the hell your T-Rexes