Meet 'Oumuamua, the Interstellar Cigar

Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago to Science

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Interesting, Rendezvous with Rama was one of the first books I read as a kid by Arthur C Carke.

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Posted by allosaur 6 years, 4 months ago

That cigar is as alien to us as a Havana.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRs0O...

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Posted by Olduglycarl 6 years, 4 months ago

Interstellar suppository?, slated, thankfully, for another galaxy...far...far...away.

If you watched it's track, it sure made a strange turn,..was someone or something actually driving that thing? Did they get piloting lessons from our US Navy..?

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  Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago
  
  No, I saw it described as a typical gravity assist boost, course change. That was one of the weird things about it, but could also have just been a coincidence.
  
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    Posted by Olduglycarl 6 years, 4 months ago
    
    Yea...the lamestream loves to blame "Gravity" for everything. Maybe it actually swung around to align itself with N/S magnetics...something transgenders don't believe in...laughing
    
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      Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 4 months ago
      
      The older I get, the more gravity causes problems that it didn't when I was younger.
      
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        Posted by Olduglycarl 6 years, 4 months ago
        
        Laughing...maybe us old folks should move to the moon; thereby avoiding those problems..?
        
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        Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 4 months ago
        
        I agree, but I'd rather see a colony established in an asteroid with spin applied for gravity (variable by deck) and solar panels outside for energy. Really need to get off this planet and away from the UN and statist meddlers.
        You can't take the sky from me!
        
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        Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago
        
        Don't laugh, Heinlein made that point in TMIAHM.
        
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Posted by mia767ca 6 years, 4 months ago

Please, please,please....

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  Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago
  
  No, mia, it was NOT made by Boeing.....:)
  
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    Posted by mia767ca 6 years, 4 months ago
    
    if it ain't Boeing...it ain't going...
    
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      Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago
      
      Tell the aliens that, mia, they are heading out at about 500,000 Kph...just sayin'.....
      
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Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 4 months ago

It came from Lyra like the aliens' messsge in book and movie Contact.

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  Posted by nickursis 6 years, 4 months ago
  
  Maybe, but then, why let it zip through and not stop, unless it was a maneuver to slow and return.
  
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    Posted by CircuitGuy 6 years, 4 months ago
    
    Something unexplained from Lyra is probably the beginning and the end of the similarity between this story and Contact.
    
    If it were aliens, before humans appeared on Earth, they sent one-way probes carrying no fuel for braking out to all solar systems likely to have goldilocks planets. They had no idea the probe would arrive just moments after some organisms developed the ability to detect it. Maybe it will send back telemetry that will arrive in 25 years if whatever they evolved into is still around and listening.
    
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