The Thing That Shouldn't Be

[Safetyhit]

Could read about these things all day. No one really knows what it was but it was a very fast mover and unlike anything detected before.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...n-to-oumuamua/

[SteyrAUG]

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[FromMyColdDeadHand]

My orbital mechanics is rusty, but didn't the path for it come in at 90 degrees but it's current path is much flatter to our orbit. Not really saying anything with that, outside of how gravity tweaks a trajectory like that. That and if something 10 times bigger came out of the darkness heading right towards us.....

[Safetyhit]

My orbital mechanics is rusty, but didn't the path for it come in at 90 degrees but it's current path is much flatter to our orbit. Not really saying anything with that, outside of how gravity tweaks a trajectory like that. That and if something 10 times bigger came out of the darkness heading right towards us.....

This gives a better visual and his analysis is very detailed as to why it's so strange even beyond it's interstellar trajectory. The shape probably shouldn't be able to hold up if as elongated as it appears and spinning as it does, but who knows what we don't know. Just that it's an amazing coincidence it used the sun like it did, going closer than even Mercury. That's what we do with our ships, which is often use gravity as propulsion.

This guy isn't the only one highly interested in it, that's for sure.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qisQ5_LadBQ

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Sometimes I think that looking for radio signals from these things is like New Guinea tribesmen doubting our existence because they don't see our smoke signals....

[Doc Safari]

I'm getting to be so cynical I'm suspicious it's some elaborate advertisement for the new Star Wars movie.

[qsy]

Sometimes I think that looking for radio signals from these things is like New Guinea tribesmen doubting our existence because they don't see our smoke signals....

Given the distances involved in an interstellar search, what we're really doing is looking for fossils of previous life. Any evidence obtained would likely be hundreds/thousands/millions of years old. There is presently no way to do a real-time search. If we were to detect any "smoke signals" it isn't very likely that the civilization that generated them still exists.

[Det-Sog]

Given the distances involved in an interstellar search, what we're really doing is looking for fossils of previous life. Any evidence obtained would likely be hundreds/thousands/millions of years old. There is presently no way to do a real-time search. If we were to detect any "smoke signals" it isn't very likely that the civilization that generated them still exists.

That.

On the 0.002% chance that this thing is artificial, odds are that it's been floating around the galaxy/galaxies for billions of years. Relatively speaking, this thing was traveling very slowly based on interstellar speeds.

I look up at the night sky and KNOW that there is other intelligent life out there, but given the distances involved, we'll probably never know.

Now, there is the whole faster than light and/or wormhole theories, but that's all that they are for now. IMHO, any civilization that has that technology developed (if possible) either hasn't found us as the vast expanse of the universe makes finding us as remote as finding a particular grain of sand located somewhere in the world. If they have found us, their technology would be so advance that they could mask their presence, until they wanted us to see them.

<--- My two cents are on no one even knows were here. Yes, our civilization puts out a massive electromagnetic signature (radio waves). Those said waves are more than likely washed out after a few billion miles by our sun. Our closest star neighbor probably can't detect our signature due to the background interference of our own star. Someone else would have to be really close to see or hear us. Same goes for us hearing someone else...

[Mr. Goodtimes]

Or maybe this is just the government screwing with people... maybe it’s another super secret government aircraft. I didn’t know we had stealth helicopters till we wrecked one killing bin laden, if we know about that then what do we not know about?

There’s a lot of possibilities. A lot of people assume that whatever other life is out there is far more intelligent than we are. Maybe they are, or maybe they aren’t... has anyone ever considered that we may be the smartest, most advanced thing in the universe?

Maybe all the other planets are just full of those teddy bear looking things from Star Wars.


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[Safetyhit]

Or maybe this is just the government screwing with people...

Seriously no, let's not go there. More than likely its an asteroid, possibly partially made of an unknown material or element allowing it to maintain it's integrity. Except for light spectrum analysis we are only physically familiar with what orbits our sun, which this object does not and never will.

But it may be something totally different. Too far away already to confirm now.