Ogdred Weary
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Nah if they used windows it would have really fucked the aliens up.
Like Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection.
Nah if they used windows it would have really fucked the aliens up.
Newly published research results claim 'Oumuamua wasn't an asteroid, comet or alien probe. Its observed characteristics are more consistent with its being a shard of nitrogen ice knocked off an exoplanet, probably due to a collision or impact event. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/oumuamua-not-nitrogen-icebergInterstellar visitor 'Oumuamua wasn't a nitrogen iceberg, Harvard astrophysicists say
The first-known interstellar object in our solar system, known as 'Oumuamua, continues to defy scientific explanation. Now, one of the latest explanations for what the cigar-shaped interloper is made of — a "nitrogen iceberg" — has also been shot down.
In a recent attempt to explain 'Oumuamua, researchers described it as a nitrogen iceberg. But astrophysicists at Harvard say that's impossible, and explain why in a new paper published Nov. 5 in the journal New Astronomy. ...
As the flat, wonky-shaped object passed the sun, tumbling end-over-end, it accelerated at a pace that couldn't be explained by the gravitational pull of the sun. ...
Not only are scientists unsure what propelled 'Oumuamua on its slingshot visit into and out of our solar system, they also don't know what it is made of.
But in March, Arizona State University astrophysicists Alan Jackson and Steven Desch said they had figured it out. The team published two papers announcing that 'Oumuamua was most likely a chunk of nitrogen ice that popped off a Pluto-like planet somewhere outside our solar system ...
The theory would solve the invisible propellant mystery, because as 'Oumuamua approached the sun, evaporating nitrogen gas would have pushed the object and been invisible to telescopes. ...
But not everyone agrees with this conclusion.
"The moment I saw those papers, I knew that there was no physical mechanism for it to work. And not even the error budget for it to work," said Amir Siraj ...
According to Siraj and his co-author, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, Jackson and Desch's conclusion that 'Oumuamua is a nitrogen iceberg is flawed because there isn't enough nitrogen in the universe to make an object like 'Oumuamua, which is somewhere between 1,300 and 2,600 feet (400 and 800 meters) long and between 115 and 548 feet (35 and 167 m) wide. ...
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2022...-and-catch-up-to-interstellar-oject-oumuamua/Scientists Develop Plan to Chase and Catch Up To Interstellar Oject ’Oumuamua’
Paul SeaburnJanuary 23, 2022
Like one those mysterious people who shows up uninvited at a party, proceeds to blow everyone away with their karaoke singing, and then disappears before anyone can get their name or learn where they came from, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua blasted through our solar system in 2017, surprising astronomers with its origin, strange oblong shape, weird behavior and hasty exit. No one got a good look at it, prompting many to speculate it may have been a spacecraft that may or may not have been occupied. Fortunately, astronomers collected enough data on ‘Oumuamua that they believe a craft from Earth could track it and even catch up to it. Recently, one such group of scientists laid out a plan and a schedule to do just that.
This seems a sound assumption. However, what was unique about Oumuamua is not that it was an interstellar visitor but rather its shape, unknown composition and acceleration without evidence of a 'tail'. That shouldn't get lost amidst the noise.On the one occasion I messaged Avi Loeb, he made a similar comment. If ‘Oumuamua was not an extreme statistical anomaly but a typical event, we might expect to see many, many similar objects passing through the region of the solar system (just because of random chance). Some of these objects would be captured by interaction with planets in our system and remain here for us to examine.
Hyperion might be one - it is weird enough.
A suggested natural explanation.
An interstellar object that is currently on its long journey back out of our Solar System has a completely natural explanation, in spite of its odd quirks.
The peculiar acceleration of 'Oumuamua, new research confirms, can be fully attributed to the release of molecular hydrogen gas.
This, according to astrochemist Jennifer Bergner of the University of California, Berkeley and astrophysicist Darryl Seligman of Cornell University, is further evidence that the cigar-shaped chunk of rock started off as a planet seed before being booted off to wander the galaxy untethered to a star.
It's an elegant solution, one that, the researchers write, "can explain many of 'Oumuamua's peculiar properties without fine-tuning" – or resorting to extraordinary claims about the object's nature. ...
https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-acceleration-of-mysterious-interstellar-visitor-finally-explainet Avi Loeb has to sau=y about it...
Not sure Avi Loeb is going to take this lying down...
At least, he's saying it's about interstellar objects as alien spacecraft but I'm not falling for that one again... Last time I fell for his BS, I ended up buying a book that was puffed out with a tedious egotistical autobiography - a book that I never finished so I have no idea if he ever got around to discussing 'Oumuamua in detail....at a time when he is ramping up to start promoting his next book, due out in August from HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also runs the parent of UFO-obsessed Fox News and played patron to ufologists on his NatGeo channel. Its topic? Oh, right: interstellar objects as alien spacecraft. ...
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/...ng-oumuamua-natural-ahead-of-new-book-release
Is there a wholly satisfactory theory for the equatorial mountain ridge on Iapetus?