Meet 'Oumuamua, the Interstellar Cigar

Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 5 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 freedomforall 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 $ nickursis 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 7 years, 5 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 CircuitGuy 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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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  • Posted by $ nickursis 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 7 years, 5 months ago
    It came from Lyra like the aliens' messsge in book and movie Contact.
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