Interstellar object confirmed to be from another solar system
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[Url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2017/nov/20/interstellar-object-confirmed-to-be-from-another-solar-system]source[/url]
[QUOTE]Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(’Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighbourhood.
The certainty of its extraterrestrial origin comes from an analysis that shows its orbit is almost impossible to achieve from within our solar system.[/QUOTE]
[media]https://twitter.com/NASA/status/932664356403281929[/media]
It's a big cosmic turd
That's no asteroid...
[QUOTE=GordonZombie;52911582]That's no asteroid...[/QUOTE]
... It's a giant space dildo.
Is it the first?
It still blows my mind to think that some of the rock kicked up by the dinosaur-killing asteroid will have reached other solar systems by now
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52911604]Is it the first?[/QUOTE]
Almost certainly not, but it's the first we've seen.
A giant Space Joint. From the Galaxy, Kush-420.
railgun round from an alien battleship that missed its mark
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Rama_copy.jpg[/t]
just an interstellar RV slinging on through
[IMG]https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/2/2a/Whale_Probe.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120511133728&path-prefix=en[/IMG]
???
Perhaps there's still time, round up all the humpbacks!
[QUOTE=download;52911597]... It's a giant space dildo.[/QUOTE]
How appropriate, it could fuck up planets.
[QUOTE=Useful Dave;52911825]How appropriate, it could fuck up planets.[/QUOTE]
I see your sneaky Iain M Banks reference, well played. (Pretty sure that paraphrases an exchange in Excession, no?)
Ok, who was the witty astronaut at the ISS that yelled "pass the blunt" into the void of space?
Space Nazi Rockets.
Bet that thing has a marker in it. I'm ready for convergence.
how would it be possible for such a specific shape to form? is it just coincidence like a dick-shaped potato?
[QUOTE=dot.rich;52911874]how would it be possible for such a specific shape to form? is it just coincidence like a dick-shaped potato?[/QUOTE]
obviously a prank some aliens are laughing about somewhere.
'Lets make this rock look like a piece of shit and send it out to space'
[QUOTE=dot.rich;52911874]how would it be possible for such a specific shape to form? is it just coincidence like a dick-shaped potato?[/QUOTE]
They hired a potato fetish porn artist to do art for their press release.
Tyranid Hive ship ?
It's pretty cool to think that it's shaped that way because the solar system it comes from has different physics/geology, something that makes no sense and shatters our perception of what we thought we knew
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the phallus dimension
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52911958]It's pretty cool to think that it's shaped that way because the solar system it comes from has different physics/geology, something that makes no sense and shatters our perception of what we thought we knew
[editline]21st November 2017[/editline]
the phallus dimension[/QUOTE]
I'm sure it can be easily explained as simple effects of gravity stretching it out over time. Doubtful that it's rotating on more than one axis at this point, so it probably just rolled itself into that shape.
If I was an alien race that wanted to invade another world I'd disguise my ships as space rocks :tinfoil:
SPAAAAACE
[B]DIIIIICK[/B]
And then we find out it's back and slowing down.
[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52911958]It's pretty cool to think that it's shaped that way because the solar system it comes from has different physics/geology, something that makes no sense and shatters our perception of what we thought we knew
[editline]21st November 2017[/editline]
the phallus dimension[/QUOTE]
Systems aren't dimensions, physics are universal in the entire universe. Funky kinds of rock might arguably be the case, but a lot of other things fall well within 'reasonable explanation' territory.
[QUOTE=Ziks;52911607]It still blows my mind to think that some of the rock kicked up by the dinosaur-killing asteroid will have reached other solar systems by now[/QUOTE]
Yoo what the fuck, never thought of it that way
That's pretty kickass
[VID]https://my.mixtape.moe/yxojbr.mp4[/VID]
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;52911995]I'm sure it can be easily explained as simple effects of gravity stretching it out over time. Doubtful that it's rotating on more than one axis at this point, so it probably just rolled itself into that shape.[/QUOTE]
Not precisely. Asteroids vary widely in composition: it may be a loose asteroid made up of chunks of aggregate, and is thus very susceptible to distortion and reshaping due to tidal effects. Maybe it passed near a larger body at some point in it's lifetime, who knows.
Alternatively, if it's a more conventional "solid" (even this varies considerably) asteroid the shape might not be due to gravity alone - it could have been ejected in a more sharp vaguely cylindrical form due to an asteroid impact, and has worn down over the probable millenia into something more conventional. However, this asteroid wasn't created in our solar system. All of our knowledge comes from asteroids that experienced nearly the same type of initial conditions, or formed from the same kind of environment and pre-existing material. This one is really foreign, and we have no idea just how old it is too
There's really no way we can know more about this asteroid without somehow slinging a satellite at it, but given its truly ludicrous speed there's no way this could happen (even assuming we had detected it long before it's current location). And it's going really pretty goddamn fast
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