Scientists Reveal Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua’ Has Organic Shell

Breitbart ^ | 12-20-2017 | Nate Church

[jerod]

Jim... It's organic.

[gr8eman]

...with Interstellar Overdrive on it!

[bar sin·is·ter]

Well, the Empire does like to dump their garbage before jumping to light speed.

[Red Badger]

Maybe even the next convention!.................

[Manly Warrior]

I think, as always, that the principle of “Occam’s Razor” applies.

If it looks like a rock, acts like a rock and there is no reason to think it is other than a rock, it probably is a rock.

Just because it hails from some unknown place of unknown origin and is an unusual event/object, leads no rational person to think it is other than a rock....

Glad to know that the astronomy folks have the tools to see it, track it and ponder about it. But come on, it is a dead rock from somewhere else. It won’t tell us anything we need to know. All we can do is scan it with various sensors and pretend to interpret something from the analysis.

It is a rock.

Can I get my Nobel prize in science now or do I have to wait?

[Joe Brower]

That was my first thought when I first heard of this.

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Ummagumma...................

[COBOL2Java]

Well at least we still have some humpback whales in the ocean...

[Ancesthntr]

Berzerker on a recon mission.

[Conan the Librarian]

That is a GREAT movie.

I very much enjoy watching it.

Still wish MST3K had done it.

[null and void]

Aliens! </Arnold J. Rimmer>

[Buttons12]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Other times it’s a tour bus, or a very yuge bacterium.

[Colo9250]

“result of unknown organic matter which shields its internal ice from the sun’s immense heat”

How do they know its insides are made of ice?

[Buttons12]

Waiting now for the cat & pickle gifs.

[Little Pig]

Where the heck has the author of this article been for the last several months?

Oumuamua was already classified as being comprised of metallic or rocky materials. The reddish coating has already been explained as being the result of cosmic ray bombardment over millions of years, and the presence of an “organic coating” means it has methane dust and other simple products of organic chemistry on it.

[sphinx]

It is a rock.

My first thought when the initial stories appeared was, "What's the big deal?" There are plenty of rocks on earth that shatter into long, angular pieces. (Is is mostly sedimentary rocks that do this?) The thing I don't understand is the repeated assertion that the shape is unlike anything else ever detected in space. Is that really true?

[mewzilla]

Everybody got their Slim Whitman cds handy...?

[bar sin·is·ter]

One of their more esoteric albums.

[American in Israel]

The old ice shedding theory was debunked a decade ago. It’s non magnetic and non conductive so it has no tail...