UM-Bot Posted December 18, 2017 #1 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Oumuamua, the first ever confirmed visitor to our solar system, has a thick layer of organic insulation. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/314251/visiting-asteroid-has-strange-organic-coat 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khol Posted December 18, 2017 #2 Share Posted December 18, 2017 (edited) " due to the fact it's been baked by energetic radiation between the stars for hundreds of millions of years, or even billions of years " Its just mind blowing the time spans involved when talking of the cosmos!...and welcome traveller to our solar system....enjoy your brief visit https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/oumuamua/indepth Edited December 18, 2017 by khol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khol Posted December 18, 2017 #3 Share Posted December 18, 2017 No kidding. What we could learn.It would be incredible. I imagine trying to stabilize it into a steady orbit around sun is what we would do.I wonder what the logistics would be in attempting to do this when its travelling at 26km/sec. or if its even possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bison Posted December 18, 2017 #4 Share Posted December 18, 2017 This coating of 'organic insulation' is so thick that the usual spectral signature expected of asteroids is not visible? That is very odd. Even if some presumably organic material is present on an asteroid, giving it a reddish tinge of color, the signature of various kinds of minerals is normally quite obvious, too. Some organic materials are said to be very good insulators against radiation in space. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 18, 2017 #5 Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, seanjo said: It's shameful we can't intercept it after 60 years of space travel. This thing is travelling at huge speed and turned up announced. Newton and Kepler's laws still apply. Science does not advance just on wishful thinking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelion318 Posted December 18, 2017 #6 Share Posted December 18, 2017 It's a seed and will eventually help create more life somewhere in the universe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted December 18, 2017 #7 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Very odd... not an asteroid and not a comet, something in between or something else entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted December 19, 2017 #8 Share Posted December 19, 2017 Or an alien probe isolated. The fact it didn't probed for life after a full scan means nothing. We have a thing unusual shaped unlike any asteroids or meteorites, it enters our solar system, does use suns gravitational pull to fly by doesn't melt and puff is gone. The world applauds the new finding whilst it goes back to ignorance. God. Why does aliens have to communicate like we do? What is Hubble telescope doing? Can it take a picture of the thing? By far this is the most mysterius cosmic event our galaxy have seen in a few millions of boredom! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZDZ Posted December 19, 2017 #9 Share Posted December 19, 2017 (edited) There isn't much to see but real images do exist. This shows the object tumbling: Edited December 19, 2017 by AZDZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Unicorn Posted December 19, 2017 #10 Share Posted December 19, 2017 I think discoving the organic layer is a great plus to science for the theory of pansporia from space objects. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardvark-DK Posted December 20, 2017 #11 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Guys, its a Chinese Star Destroyer, only very suspect quality...they can't copy anything right ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDocMartens Posted December 20, 2017 #12 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Seanjo, I love it when kids are willing to think for themselves. Keep at it, friend, and university will be a breeze! Any thoughts on what you might like to study? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oranje Posted December 21, 2017 #13 Share Posted December 21, 2017 ha ha, wouldn't be surprised if it is a Chinese space ship! with their unlimited money, manpower, tech advances, etc., they are far advanced in some areas of research. prestigious journals (latest being Nature) have highlighted how china has been trailblazing in edge cutting research from biotech to space venture research to quantum comms, etc. they even got the biggest, newest and most advanced astronomical observatory now. heck, even the pentagon and nasa and boeing have publicly said china could be quietly in the lead in some areas. I and my colleagues used to joke about this, but stereotyping china's capabilities is outdated and could backfire and make the rest of the world complacent. china could easily fund and build multiple very advanced research facilities , whereas other countries suffer from funding issues or lack of interest. even countries like jap/korea are now slacking and have other priorities than to focus on innovation , and worse, they lack new ideas. same could be said in some respects about the usa, EU. even basic tech, like TVs, korean/jpn brands are fading or struggling compared to the fully loaded features, performance and innovation of Chinese TVs!, lol. so, yeah if you or the pentagon speculate or tell me it's a Chinese ship in hyperspace, i would not discount the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The singularity Posted December 22, 2017 #14 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Truly fascinating. I hope there will be a probe landed on it so that we can learn even more about this very unusual object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted December 22, 2017 #15 Share Posted December 22, 2017 1 hour ago, The singularity said: Truly fascinating. I hope there will be a probe landed on it so that we can learn even more about this very unusual object. Oumuamua is a naturally occurring space probe. All we need to do is rig it with the necessary technology and let it on its way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted December 23, 2017 #16 Share Posted December 23, 2017 On 20/12/2017 at 11:05 PM, Aardvark-DK said: Guys, its a Chinese Star Destroyer, only very suspect quality...they can't copy anything right ! It looks more like a space vegetable, perhaps an organic potato and I wonder what it would taste like. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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