Astronomers have been arguing for over a year now whether the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua’ (pronounced oh MOO-uh MOO-uh) was an asteroid or a comet. The reddish tinged cigar shaped object whizzed through our solar system last year at over 16 miles a second before picking up speed and being flung back out into space by our sun’s gravity. Now the chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, Avi Loeb has speculated that the visitor could “light-sail.” In other words, alien technology from an extraterrestrial. More
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Did Barry Soertoro have the naming rights….
Dumbing down of America is reaching the highest levels of acadamia. Too much tee vee. Like I tell my kids – science is “magic” to stupid people.
The simplest answer is most likely the correct answer. It is a big freaken space rock.
Typical Aliens..Clinging to their Phasers and Religion.
Well if it was alien it hauled ass when it got a closer look at this planet.
OH-Wa-TAH-Goose-I-AM.
What an ASSININE name to identify a heavenly body…oh it’s Havahee.
Not to mention, cigar shaped UFO’s have been reported to have been sighted for YEARS.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cigar+shaped+ufos&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjujYLai8beAhVSu1MKHZs8BvsQ_AUIFCgC&biw=1152&bih=753
Sail on, sail on, sailor.
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=FfnZdGUVSGw
This Saturday Nights not right for fighting
It needs to come with the song The Bird Is The Word by the Trashmen from the early 60’s, or the original versing by the Rivingtons, Pappa, ooh, mau, mau etc.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but the hard sciences have now fallen, even at Harvard.
The IAU, at least, has denounced such frivolity.
Obviously an alien probe looking for intelligent life. Probably locked on to a cable news broadcast. We’ll never see them again……
It may have been an alien probe looking for a suitable colonization target, and after determining that the Earth’s dominant intelligent life-form is on a societal course highly likely to cause civilization to collapse it may well return with a lot of little green men as cargo. But there will be no astronomers around to watch that event.
Absolutely.
Alien technology made to look like an old hunk of rock in case we catch on that they have a space sail that is a rock.
No ‘the universe is messy because it started with an explosion’ just straight to Aliens.
Too much time at high altitudes
anyone can see it’s obviously a giant petrified alien dinosaur-creature space turd …. duh!
We have no imaging, but were given an image of a cigar shaped rock. Hmm.
A quick scan of the linked paper shows much speculation into the mechanical properties and possible aspect ratio, ~ 5-1, but I missed any mention of the estimated mass. Which could be calculated readily from the orbital parameters observed during the pass around Sol.
Did I miss that part?
Sweet Meteor of Death.
Missed me.
Dammit.
Let’s blow it up and see if anyone comes looking for the pieces. Then we’ll know if aliens are real.
Is there a bingbangwallawallabingbang in there somewhere?
Looks like an Astro-turd to me.
It came without warning, above the solar ecliptic, hooked a dog leg due to the Sun’s mass bending spacetime and passed within Mercury’s orbit beneath the solar plane.
Not from the Kuiper belt, not from the Oort Cloud. Interstellar.
Not a comet, an asteroid. In other words solid with no water.
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/faq/interstellar
Omuamua unsettles because it reveals we are chemotactic bacteria in our understanding of the Universe.
@Ow My Balls – Heh! I guess I’m chemotactic because I’m ethanotropic.
HA! There are certain ethanolic mixtures that can bend spacetime for sure.
That is an imposter. Here is the real umma mau mau! Its a burd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVGV7zYWPSc
ANnnnddd there is this UFO just spotted. https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1039565/alien-discovery-ufo-news-sighting-aliens-space?fbclid=IwAR1EqHqC2XA0oPFVD7boUEpDFnzils673OGzhDtVxzFeHShGKi1U9b4TxyU
This Avi Loeb I suspect has recently had a loebotomy done on his head.
Observations indicate Oumuamua to be shaped like a needle, 800 meters long and 80 wide, spinning every seven hours and 80 minutes, twirling at a rate that really rotates and weathers long solo journeys between visible and invisible stars and states.
An Audible Visible Interstellar fidget spinner
~Radio WAVs
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fci5okfdx0g/Wk0K9xmiUzI/AAAAAAAACfg/5zcN2HHkZk4_aUEn-xX4rBo3M4pB7HLZQCLcBGAs/s1600/omuamua-hst-180102.jpg
They’re one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eaters. Nuke the bastards.