Oumuamua

[John101]

Green Bank telescope in West Virginia will listen for radio signals from ‘Oumuamua, an object from another solar system.

Astronomers are to use one of the world’s largest telescopes to check a mysterious object that is speeding through the solar system for signs of alien technology.

https://swling.com/blog/2017/12/listening-to-oumuamua-via-the-green-bank-telescope/

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[xtreemchaos]

I been reading the chit chat about it for a few days, as to what it is well, the UFO people think its a craft, the others think its a sign, I just think it a asteroid, thay say its uncommon to see one with such a strange shape, but we havnt been able to see or track such things for very long so its hard for anybody to judge, the one thing for sure its traveling very fast around 172,000 km a hour. thanks for the link, clear skys. charl.

[Helen]

Here's a paper my PhD supervisor worked on https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11530

Helen

[MarsG76]

26 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

I been reading the chit chat about it for a few days, as to what it is well, the UFO people think its a craft, the others think its a sign, I just think it a asteroid, thay say its uncommon to see one with such a strange shape, but we havnt been able to see or track such things for very long so its hard for anybody to judge, the one thing for sure its traveling very fast around 172,000 km a hour. thanks for the link, clear skys. charl.

Good sum up... I agree.

[xtreemchaos]

thanks MG, I could be well out with the speed mate, I must confess a part of me wishes it was a craft, it makes my imagination run wild.  charl.

[MarsG76]

14 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

thanks MG, I could be well out with the speed mate, I must confess a part of me wishes it was a craft, it makes my imagination run wild.  charl.

Yeah, same here, something exotic like a alien piece of tech would be surreal, but in reality it's just a long thin rock... 

[Mr niall]

Definitely a spaceship. Definitely.

Or perhaps not, but I really wish it were. That would be amazing.

As Clarke said: Two possibilities exist; either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

[xtreemchaos]

it sounds like its very dence, metal most likely , it would of made one heap of a mess if it had hit the earth, shame we didn't know about it before it passed earth, it would of made a nice pic. charl.

[MarsG76]

14 minutes ago, xtreemchaos said:

it sounds like its very dence, metal most likely , it would of made one heap of a mess if it had hit the earth, shame we didn't know about it before it passed earth, it would of made a nice pic. charl.

I'd leave that up to you... I do t have equipment good enough to track it at 20,000mm focal length 

[xtreemchaos]

I was thinking of scopes as in big on top of volcanos sorta thing, I have trouble shooting anything smaller than the moon .. charl.

[goodricke1]

I would certainly pay good money for a close up view of it. There should be zillions of these objects out there of course, but the fact that the first one has several oddities would not have been predicted.

[Alien 13]

It is a shame we couldn't have spotted it years in advance and "glued" a probe to it for a free ride...perhaps others more advanced did similar.

Alan

[MarsG76]

11 hours ago, Alien 13 said:

It is a shame we couldn't have spotted it years in advance and "glued" a probe to it for a free ride...perhaps others more advanced did similar.

Alan

Now we're talking reality.... that would be awesome!!!