Posted on 11/18/2018 9:24:28 AM PST by ETL
The mystery of Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever spotted in our solar system, has taken a new, unexpected twist and it's from someone you might not expect NASA. ..."
Because of the varying degrees of brightness emanating from Oumuamua's surface, NASA suggests it is "highly elongated and probably less than half a mile (2,600 feet, or 800 meters) in its longest dimension."
The intrigue of what Oumuamua is or isn't has picked up a considerably over the past few weeks, especially as some researchers have theorized that it could be an object from an extraterrestrial civilization.
A study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics says the object could be "a lightsail of artificial origin" sent from another civilization.
"Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment," researchers Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb wrote in a paper.
Weryk called that idea preposterous and just "wild speculation," though he did note that the speed of the object was unusual.
"There's a maximum speed that you can be traveling to be bound gravitationally by the sun," Weryk told Canadian outlet CBC in an interview. "When we first saw this object, it was traveling faster than that, so we know for a fact that it's from outside our solar system. We decided that it was a comet that had a bit of outgassing that wasn't visible from the ground, which is why it didn't appear to be a comet." ..."
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An intergalactic turd. Now the creature that defecated it could present some real problems, especially if it is chronically constipated.
“Ever see the movie LifeForce?”
If a woman gets out of it that looks like her, I’ll volunteer to go up there and explore it.
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Or running!
Yeah, or maybe just a big rock.
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A fragment of debris.
Much ado about less than nothing.
Perhaps the object was something emitted from a planet like Uranus?
I doubt that it was a “slingshot” maneuver. Any object passing the sun will be attracted, and gain kinetic energy as it falls towards the sun, and give it back on the way out. Whether or not it gains angular momentum depends on the object’s trajectory. It is about as likely to gain as to lose kinetic energy.
Or running!
Well, that could be since a large war fleet is massing just out side the Ort Cloud :)
Actually some entity predator would not do something like that as it would reveal their existence. Better fling a “seed” in the preys direction which when arrives blossoms into a “2-D” weapon that reduces the target system to 2-dimensions forever sealing them off from the 3-D universe and making backtracking impossible. Shoot and scoot.
Nope, but there's a radio broadcast coming from the object, very hush-hush, NASA and the rest of the Deep State is covering it up. It's jut like in "Contact", aliens are repeating part of our own history back at us -- "Foor a good time call 867-5309"..
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