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Sometimes a cigar-shaped asteroid is just a cigar-shaped asteroid.
TL;DR:
Professor wildly speculates about a space object we don't even know the basic dimensions of because it might have done something we can't explain, despite us being unable to explain many cosmological phenomena.
Sham 69 wrote:
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
Searching for intelligent life on this planet should be more of a priority.
+69
After a shower , I use 4 antibiotic Polysporin on the back of my ball sack as a prevent measure .
Bad Wigins wrote:
If it was aliens, they didn't visit. Like I'm always saying, they weren't even interested in us [....].
Like a car driving on a freeway interchange and we are an ant in the grass by the roadside.
Your hypothetical example is not credible. If we found an ant on Mars, do you think we would ignore it? Not a chance. We'd spend tens of billions of dollars looking for more ants and studying them.
National Geographic, A Celebration Of Earth, January 2000, p.25-51: "I think a probe is already here It's probably been here a long time. ... I think it will happen on the World Wide Web," said Allen Tough.
LOL
Interesting. But why and how would an alien spaceship accelerate on its way out? That would take a lot of energy and for what purpose?
angryrunner wrote:
National Geographic, A Celebration Of Earth, January 2000, p.25-51: "I think a probe is already here It's probably been here a long time. ... I think it will happen on the World Wide Web," said Allen Tough.
LOL
I'm worried our gunpowder weapons are no match to the Aliens , who can read our minds . They have been studying humans using anal probes for 50 years.
Raddison wrote:
"The excess push away from the sun, that was the thing that broke the camel’s back," he said.
If this is a typical example of his prose I hope he employed a good editor before he inflicted his book on the general public.
Why? Imagine what it's like being a camel in the sahara carrying a heavy load when the sun is just too hot. They can only take so much before they collapse.
Hardloper wrote:
Interesting. But why and how would an alien spaceship accelerate on its way out? That would take a lot of energy and for what purpose?
Because it had seen what it had wanted to see (Earth) and was going home?
On topic wrote:
TL;DR:
Professor wildly speculates about a space object we don't even know the basic dimensions of because it might have done something we can't explain, despite us being unable to explain many cosmological phenomena.
A space object that happens to be the first ever observed that came from another star system, and for a reason we can't fathom, looks and behaves like nothing in our solar system.
The aliens heard there were some good new shoes on Earth, and dropped by to pick up a few pairs for their team.
Bound4Glory wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
If it was aliens, they didn't visit. Like I'm always saying, they weren't even interested in us [....].
Like a car driving on a freeway interchange and we are an ant in the grass by the roadside.
Your hypothetical example is not credible. If we found an ant on Mars, do you think we would ignore it? Not a chance. We'd spend tens of billions of dollars looking for more ants and studying them.
We are not looking for an ant on Mars, just as they were not looking for us.
What is not credible is your example. Mars is already significant to us because we can see it up in the sky and it is a nearby planet. The spaceship had no reason to think the little planets in our solar system were significant, other than to avoid crashing into them as they whizzed by. Their intent was to pick up speed, not stop and investigate. They don't care!
More apt to consider an ant on a minor asteroid, which we will never find because we're too busy looking at Mars.
Coevett wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
Interesting. But why and how would an alien spaceship accelerate on its way out? That would take a lot of energy and for what purpose?
Because it had seen what it had wanted to see (Earth) and was going home?
Why would it need to come home? Like the Voyagers, just send the information back home and let the ship keep going
Hardloper wrote:
Coevett wrote:
Because it had seen what it had wanted to see (Earth) and was going home?
Why would it need to come home? Like the Voyagers, just send the information back home and let the ship keep going
Well off to its next destination then.
If a spaceship, built by an alien civilisation 50 million years ahead of us, couldn't accelerate away from the sun because it would require implausible amounts of energy, then I guess it's even more implausible that a floating piece of rock would be able to generate that energy.
rojo wrote:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/harvard-professor-says-alien-technology-045433715.html
So basically we've got 20 years to prepare before a fleet of them arrive and blow us up or steal our gold.
Coevett wrote:
On topic wrote:
TL;DR:
Professor wildly speculates about a space object we don't even know the basic dimensions of because it might have done something we can't explain, despite us being unable to explain many cosmological phenomena.
A space object that happens to be the first ever observed that came from another star system, and for a reason we can't fathom, looks and behaves like nothing in our solar system.
Precisely. We have no idea. What does the scientific method tell us to do in this situation? Should we be skeptical of every explanation until it's proven to a reasonable degree through experimentation/observation, or should we throw up our hands and yell "Aliens!" at everything in the sky we can't explain yet?
here's his SA article:
the arguments are very compelling:
1.size: the object is too big for an interstellar rock (like, 100 to 100 million times bigger than expected)
2 and 3. velocity: its speed is highly unusual (cannot be easily traced to any particular star)
4. shape: length to width ratio is around 10, which is much higher than the usual maximum of 3
5. brightness: around 10 times brighter than expected/typical
6. non-passive trajectory around the Sun: deviated from Newtons laws by 0.1%
each separate item on this list makes the object unusual, but the overall combination
is really hard to explain as a mere coincidence
#1 can be explained easily enough if you consider the big interstellar rocks are the easiest to spot. There could be little interstellar rocks whizzing through here all the time.
Length to width is easy enough too. What is there out in space that is likely to crash into it and break it into rounder pieces? Nothing much. It will probably reach the next star intact, if it ever reaches one.
Williams Racing F1 wrote:
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
DrudgeReport clickbait. Same as National Enquirer. Not journalism, solely about advertising dollars and no moral center. Partly to blame for all the misinformation about Covid.
Searching for intelligent life on this planet should be more of a priority.
Spot on.
This "Harvard" guy is selling his book, and is lying to you in order to make a sale. Its what all salesmen do. Create an illusion that people buy into.
These people are morally bankrupt but hey, at least they have a nice house.
All professors at the top schools are salesmen and not scientists; the science is conducted by undergraduates and graduate students whom have little experience. Most of the "facts" coming from Harvard are merely sales pitches; they vying for funding dollars and that is all. Academic science has been broken and financially and morally bankrupt for decades. It is no longer 1900.