Oumuamua

Rroff said:
IIRC it is either tumbling length wise or spiralling extremely fast rather than moving like a rocket or ship would or something like that - unless the inhabitants came from a world with extreme mavity :D
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Or, assuming it's 'manned', the interior crew compartments are separate from the outer shell and it's like I said in the Astronomy & Universe thread, other civilisations are way smarter than us and disguise their probes as natural objects rather than just advertising their location in the cosmos with plaques and discs.
 
LabR@t said:
How close to earth does it get? Could we fit out to meet it?
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its closest point to earth was roughly 2au (au is the distance between the earth and the sun, 92,955,807miles), its already heading on its way out.
We could do a flyby with the nasa SLS or spacex BFr when they come online in the early 2020s, would still need mavity assists and would take about 25 years to catch it up. not enough power to then decelerate though, so it would just be a flyby. I really hope they do, but I cant see it. Even a flyby would give so much scientific data and who knows when the next opotunity will be.
 
Is it just me that longs for contact, good or bad it would be incredible.

How fast is in traveling Vs our fastest probes travel?
 
LabR@t said:
Is it just me that longs for contact, good or bad it would be incredible.

How fast is in traveling Vs our fastest probes travel?
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This object speed is 60,000mph. The fastest probe we ever built was/is New Horizons with speed around 36,000mph. Which is fast, given our tech level
The fastest object we have sent to space, was the final stage rocket (STAR48) which was pushing the New Horizons. By the time it was discarded, it had passed the above speed, having exceeded solar escape velocity in the process.
To put in perspective. The STAR48 rocket crossed the Moon orbit in 9 hours. The Apollo missions took 3 days.

And it will travel further and faster than any man made object, over the next million years.
 
Panos said:
This object speed is 60,000mph. The fastest probe we ever built was/is New Horizons with speed around 36,000mph. Which is fast, given our tech level
The fastest object we have sent to space, was the final stage rocket (STAR48) which was pushing the New Horizons. By the time it was discarded, it had passed the above speed, having exceeded solar escape velocity in the process.
To put in perspective. The STAR48 rocket crossed the Moon orbit in 9 hours. The Apollo missions took 3 days.

And it will travel further and faster than any man made object, over the next million years.
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If we put the money in we could brute force enough speed, its just obviously there's more motivation to save the pennies atm.
 
adolf hamster said:
If we put the money in we could brute force enough speed, its just obviously there's more motivation to save the pennies atm.
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Not that we (planet wide) ever poured serious money into space.

If you compare it to the annual amount of money spend in Africa or for weapons to blow ourselves, it less than peanuts.
 
Panos said:
Not that we (planet wide) ever poured serious money into space.

If you compare it to the annual amount of money spend in Africa or for weapons to blow ourselves, it less than peanuts.
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Indeed, the most we ever spent was simply showboating to each other, it says a lot for humanity that the dawn of our civilisation's spacefaring age was a byproduct of effort spent trying to find better ways to kill each other.

I'm sure if we had an armageddon scenario we could probably push the boat out to build a craft big enough to save ourselves of course by that point the issue wont be money but time.
 
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