Best KDrama, ever.
Posted on 07/05/2023 8:20:44 AM PDT by bitt
Tiny spheres of once-molten metal magnetically dredged from the seafloor could be pieces from IM1, a potential interstellar meteor that struck Earth in 2014
Over the past two weeks, I have circumnavigated the globe by land, air and sea. The reason? A kitchen sink–sized chunk of interstellar material that my colleagues and I believe collided with the Earth at 100,000 miles per hour nearly a decade ago. After years of effort, we may have finally found pieces of this elusive object on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, about a mile beneath the waves.
The story began In April 2019, when I found what’s thought to be the first known interstellar meteor, hiding in plain sight in publicly accessible data sourced from the U.S. government. Called IM1, this object had burned up in the atmosphere and rained fragments down into the ocean off the coast of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, five years prior, registering as an anomalously speedy and bright fireball in the sensors of secret spy satellites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense. Working with my then-adviser, the Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, I analyzed the U.S. government data to show how the trajectory and other properties of IM’s fireball were consistent with the meteor having an interstellar origin.
It seemed at first too good to be true; scientists had been searching for interstellar meteors for at least seven decades, and here I was, a sophomore in college sitting in my dorm room, thinking I’d bagged one. And sure enough, there was a catch—but it had nothing to do with my calculations. Because the data came from spy satellites, the U.S. government didn’t publish how precise the measurements were. And without knowing the level of precision, we couldn’t know for sure whether IM1 was truly interstellar, or just
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more...and Avi Loeb was just interviewed on fauxnews..
All the time
I thought we were all made from another star...
EVERY METEOR IS FROM ANOTHER STAR.....................
Have we??
My wife watches that show.
Yes, every atom in our bodies came from another solar system, now defunct............
We are stardust,
We are golden,
And we’ve got to get ourselves,
Back to the garden.......................
Waiting for data from government to say it’s blue ice from a UFO.
There’s a Starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a Starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
‘Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile
He told me
Let the children lose it
Let the children use it
Let all the children boogie
We are star dust we are golden....
Every atom in your body (and mine) came from an exploded star.
Lol. The entire solar system is made up of interstellar dust, gas, etc.
We live in a cosmic shooting gallery. The more we shift attention off global warming and onto the threat of asteroid impact, the better we can organize the planet into a defense against an ACTUAL empirically observable threat.
CODENAME: Wormwood
[gushing]”Have We Found Fragments of a Meteor from Another Star?”
Dunno, genius, why are you asking me?
And WTF is all this “we” s#!+ anyway?
But I’ve got questions for YOU:
Have YOU found Uranus?
Did you wipe out the Klingons?
How? Captain Kirk or Charmin?
Honestly... “question-as-headline” utterly REEKS of “Beavis and Butthead” level clickbait.
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