NASA Spacecraft Detects Weird Anomaly Days Ahead of Ultima Thule Flyby

Sputnik.com ^ | 23:08 23.12.2018

[neverevergiveup]

Save us blueunicorn!

[Ciaphas Cain]

It’s a weird movie but the gist of it is that a newly-discovered gas giant (something like the size of Neptune or Uranus) is approaching Earth. It seems to pass safely but because of gravitational perturbation it swings back around and collides with Earth. That’s from the end of it, when the crash happens.

[Jim Noble]

[aquila48]

“Ultima Thule” - great name for a girl!

[BenLurkin]

Bond girl

[aquila48]

Interesting origins... (from wikipedia)

Thule was the place located furthest north, which was mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography.

In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin “furthermost Thule”) acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world”.[2]

By the late middle ages and early modern era, the Greco-Roman Thule was often identified with the real Iceland or Greenland. Sometimes Ultima Thule was a Latin name for Greenland, when Thule was used for Iceland.[3] By the late 19th century, however, Thule was frequently identified with Norway.[4][5]

In 1910, the explorer Knud Rasmussen established a missionary and trading post in north-western Greenland, which he named “Thule” (later Qaanaaq).”

[Oscar in Batangas]

Three Plus hours and no one has speculated that it is Klingons heading out from Uranus???

[PIF]

And no one talks about Oumuamua’s twin companion mentioned briefly then not at all ...

[CtBigPat]

Contimplate this on the Tree of Woe

[BenLurkin]

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/algoof.wav

[Vaduz]

Everything in space and on earth can and will kill you.

[blueunicorn6]

Fear not!

I have allowed NASA to see this!

I took the eye cover off their telescope.

They aren’t rocket scie

Never mind.

[VietVet]

It was fairly obvious that a major catastrophe was rapidly approaching, it was the characters’ actions and reactions which made no sense. And the way the film dawdled and drew out their reactions just made it worse. Knowing that “the End was nigh," the characters’ preparations to meet their deaths could have been shown in less than 1/3 the time that clip took.

[TigersEye]

Whoa! I mean, woe!