IS ’OUMUAMUA AN ALIEN SPACESHIP?
Oumuamua (officially "1I/2017 U1") is a cigar-shaped mysterious object that an Hawaiian telescope had spotted in 2017 already (when leaving the solar system).
Since then speculation never stopped. Is it neither a comet nor an asteroid but an alien spacecraft?
Its slingshotting trajectory around the sun tells astronomers that Oumuamua is not from around here. Comets tend to come from the Oort Cloud, distant but still orbiting the sun, and asteroids mostly come from a belt between Mars and Jupiter. ‘Oumuamua couldn’t have come from either place. It is the first interstellar object humans have seen so close to home!
If it is an asteroid, why is it in a weird, comet-like orbit? If it’s a comet, why doesn’t it have a tail—why isn’t it outgassing like comets do?
It´s shape indeed resembles some science fiction-concepts.
And even scientists are open to the spaceship theory:
“One possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as debris from an advanced technological equipment,” (Harvard astrophysicists Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb for the journal Astrophysical Review Letters)
By the way, Oumuamua translated from Hawaiian means “messenger sent from the distant past”.
more info:
https://www.wired.com/story/is-oumuamua-an-alien-spaceship-sure-except-no/?BottomRelatedStories_Sections_2
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/have-aliens-found-us-a-harvard-astronomer-on-the-mysterious-interstellar-object-oumuamua
- It is a spaceship
- Just coincidence, it is just a piece from a planet or meteorite
- I have no clue
- I want to believe!
- Other
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Voted for Other.
Maybe a wreck of an ancient space ship.
Voted for I have no clue.
Voted for I want to believe!.
Doesn't mean it's true. I'd like to keep an open mind.
Voted for I want to believe!.
I posted something similar in the dApp where you drop links..
Apparently there is a Physicist who thinks it i a solar sail.. un'manned' (Aliened, I guess you would say) and we stumbled upon it in our passing and the sun activated it..
Interesting in anycase..
Voted for It is a spaceship.
Probably unmanned (or AIs on board).
Voted for I have no clue.
From what I've read, no one knows yet!