Posted on 12/12/2017 6:59:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Astronomers are set to scan an 'alien' comet for signs of extraterrestrial signals The cigar-shaped object, named 'Oumuamua, sailed past Earth last month The mysterious comet is the first interstellar object seen in the solar system Now a team of alien-hunting scientists led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is scanning the object for radio signals
Astronomers are set to scan an 'alien' comet for signs of extraterrestrial technology.
The cigar-shaped asteroid, named 'Oumuamua by its discoverers, sailed past Earth last month and is the first interstellar object seen in the solar system.
A team of alien-hunting scientists, led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, will scan the comet this week before it sails beyond the reach of Earth's telescopes.
They say they are looking for radio signals, claiming the mysterious visitor could be an alien spaceship.
The alien-hunting project will use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia for its investigation, with the campaign set to begin at 3:00pm ET (8:00pm GMT) on Wednesday.
The telescopes sensitive equipment would would take less than a minute to pick up something as faint as the radio waves from a smartphone, according to the Atlantic.
Milner, the business mogul behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million (£75m) search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, received an email about the object last week from one of his chief scientists.
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Has an alien probe entered our solar system? Cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' Oumuamua is being investigated for signs of extraterrestrial technology
Astronomers have begun scanning an 'alien' comet for signs of extraterrestrial technology. Researchers say they are looking for radio signals, claiming the mysterious visitor could be an alien spaceship
Ping!...................
Based on the chunky shape, this may be the Volvo of alien space probes.
In before the crazy-haired guy pic.....
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Looks like an English cucumber. Cats beware.
Note to Earthlings - get over yourselves.
Read “Rendezvous with Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke.
The people pumping this story obviously did.
It’s looking for the probe it sent back in 1995.
And what if its a million year old abandoned space vehicle?
In reality if its really alien it won’t be announced, but i bet instead a massive plan to get back to the moon and mars is announced, with a slight detour....
Coincidence Trump announces that very same agenda, makes you go hmmm....
-PJ
Silly. Given the laws of physics and the incredible distances to the nearest stars, no living biological or functioning mechanical entity can reach earth. Not to say aliens don’t exist somewhere in the universe, but humans will never meet them. Conceivable however they may one day answer the radio signals sent in analog for the last 110 years and in digital form the last fifty. Those signals by now may have reached a cognizant alien civilization who has sent an reply.
This story and the accompanying “artist’s concept” both appear to have been pulled out of someone’s...
Oh, forget it.
Looks like a fatty rolled by Cheech and Chong.
Yesterday:
Alien Probe or Galactic Driftwood? SETI Tunes In to ‘Oumuamua [pronounced ‘Yo Mama’]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3612635/posts?page=32
see #24, #26
Hahaha! “Oumuamua” - Sounds like something Jerry Lewis would say as a gorgeous blonde walked by...
And by the way - does it have stickers like an old steamer trunk? How do they know it’s “interstellar”? Isn’t the definition of ‘comet’ something that orbits our sun?
Your post makes me go a LOT more than hmm!! :)
Put the pipe down :)
Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) is a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_82
Dang, you beat me to it!
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