Oumuamua

[something daft already!!]

Astronomers recently scrambled to observe an intriguing asteroid that zipped through the solar system on a steep trajectory from interstellar space—the first confirmed object from another star.

This looks a bit like that space probe that spoke with Whales in The Voyage Home.

Are we about have our oceans boiled?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/solar-system-s-first-interstellar-visitor-dazzles-scientists

 

[mrk]

Immature mode activate!

Looks like a rather long poop.

Interstellar poopsicle.

Kek.

On a serious note, they reckon it's a few billion years old and travelled from the far reaches of the galaxy. Imagine landing a probe on it to examine the materials it contains.

 

[Angilion]

It's clearly a stone tool that only looks big because of atmospheric lensing, thus proving that the Earth is flat.

 

[Glaucus]

On a serious note, they reckon it's a few billion years old and travelled from the far reaches of the galaxy. Imagine landing a probe on it to examine the materials it contains.

theres a paper on that, and its certainly possible.
I really hope someone gets the funding to do it. Its worth rushing for, just liek the voyagers when they realised the planets alligned.
Its a perfect mission for the waste of money SLS rocket.

 

[Uther]

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

 

[LOAM]

Cigar shaped uh-oh!

 

[Malevolence]

Was already posted in the Astronomy & Universe thread by yours truly.

 

[Nasher]

Giant ***** (womens pleasure tool), obviously.

 

[Deleted member 87287]

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[adolf hamster]

quite some artists impression, given afaik all the images of it from cameras are literally a single pixel.

 

[Sliver]

I welcome our new alien overlords.

 

[Hades]

quite some artists impression, given afaik all the images of it from cameras are literally a single pixel.

CSI enhance!

 

[Rroff]

IIRC it is actually tumbling long ways through space and not like a rocket, etc.

One thing I wonder is if it was alone or if there are more, possibly even a swarm, to come - the kind of events that send something like that out of its original solar system tend to produce more objects but even a tiny change in vector would mean they'd end up in very different places in a few billion years.

 

[Delvis]

quite some artists impression, given afaik all the images of it from cameras are literally a single pixel.

Your point?

 

[Orionaut]

theres a paper on that, and its certainly possible.
I really hope someone gets the funding to do it. Its worth rushing for, just liek the voyagers when they realised the planets alligned.
Its a perfect mission for the waste of money SLS rocket.

Its traveling at nearly 50Km/S

The only hope of catching that would be with a large nuclear pulse rocket.

What I find interesting is that to be that shape, it has to be "Solid"

IE not a ball of gravel or a dirty snowball like most objects of this type.

It is very tempting to think it might actually be an artifact!

 

[dcsarge]

Kinda scary and humbling too. Forgot the actual quote but I believe nasa say many of these will have already passed through our solar system before, they just didn’t detect them.

Just be glad the Vogons decided to build their interstellar bypass elsewhere.

 

[V F]

I for one welcome our new alien overlords.

Heh, the only time humans would come together?

 

[Glaucus]

Its traveling at nearly 50Km/S

The only hope of catching that would be with a large nuclear pulse rocket.

What I find interesting is that to be that shape, it has to be "Solid"

IE not a ball of gravel or a dirty snowball like most objects of this type.

It is very tempting to think it might actually be an artifact!

welll its not, perhaps you should find and read the paper rather than guessing wrong.
i named one rocket that can catch it.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1711/1711.03155.pdf

 

[h4rm0ny]

Heh, the only time humans would come together?

Optimistic.

 

[adolf hamster]

Your point?

pretty much this

CSI enhance!