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Has an alien probe entered our solar system? Cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' ...
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 06:33 EST, 12 December 2017 | By Harry Pettit For Mailonline

Posted on 12/12/2017 6:59:57 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger; Salamander; 50mm; Darksheare; JoeProBono
So...they spend $100MM to monitor this thing and just as
it's traveling out of range they catch a little voice...

"Can you hear me now?"

21 posted on 12/12/2017 7:10:55 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Red Badger

22 posted on 12/12/2017 7:11:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger

I hope we’re also transmitting at it, so as to “wake it up” in case it’s set to listen before it says anything. Also, while it has shown no non-Newtonian activity while within the solar system, there’s no reason that it couldn’t have done all its maneuvering prior to getting close enough to be seen, or that it won’t reorient itself again once it’s out of sight.

As for dealing with the distance, true it would have had to travel for millions of years at least to have come through known space from its point of origin, but if it really is artificial, there’s no reason its creators couldn’t have found some way to travel FTL that violates our current understanding of physics. For all we know, FTL travel could be blindingly obvious to a creature that can think in 5 dimensions (or more), or alternately is stupefyingly simple but we somehow just missed it (a la Turtledove’s “Road Less Traveled”).


23 posted on 12/12/2017 7:12:47 AM PST by Little Pig
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To: Red Badger

It’s Bill & Hillary Clinton’s deep space transport, coming to take them back to planet Humidor, populated entirely by female interns who look like Huma Wiener, where Hillary will be named Dear Leader of the Galactic Empire, replacing Scientology’s Xenu, who is retiring to Tampa, FL.


24 posted on 12/12/2017 7:12:52 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: rjsimmon

Thought the same thing!


25 posted on 12/12/2017 7:13:17 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Larry Lucido

Or 1947 Roswell, NM?............................


26 posted on 12/12/2017 7:14:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
"In before the crazy-haired guy pic....."

You rang?

27 posted on 12/12/2017 7:15:44 AM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Titus 2)
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To: Red Badger

Best movie ever - Arrival. And the short story behind it is far more awesome.


28 posted on 12/12/2017 7:15:59 AM PST by MarMema (I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
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To: Red Badger

Nothing to see here. It’s just an interstellar RV.


29 posted on 12/12/2017 7:16:33 AM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
Or did you mean this one?


30 posted on 12/12/2017 7:16:56 AM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Titus 2)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Or punch cards...


31 posted on 12/12/2017 7:17:23 AM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: Red Badger

You watch way too much Star Trek.


32 posted on 12/12/2017 7:17:54 AM PST by FrankR (On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
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To: Red Badger
Life imitates fiction:


33 posted on 12/12/2017 7:18:20 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Little Pig

Having discovered no intelligent life on Earth, it’s moving on.


34 posted on 12/12/2017 7:19:32 AM PST by Noumenon (Irony: Those who tell us we don't need a border wall whIle living in gated communities.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Then I guess we’ll have to get in our Klingon Battle cruiser and go back to 1982 and retrieve an old Sony machine to take Back to the Future so we can get their message that says “Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine.”...................


35 posted on 12/12/2017 7:19:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Am reading the series now....................


36 posted on 12/12/2017 7:20:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

In politics, there are no coincidences.............FDR.............


37 posted on 12/12/2017 7:21:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Good, I liked those. Unlike the Mars series, in which I only liked Red Mars, while the others were as waste of time.


38 posted on 12/12/2017 7:25:01 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: neverevergiveup
Based on the chunky shape, this may be the Volvo of alien space probes.

Good one!

39 posted on 12/12/2017 7:33:44 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Daniel Ramsey

The Event Horizon has returned! (Space horror movie)


40 posted on 12/12/2017 7:33:54 AM PST by Klemper (And then... and ONLY then... do they get their only chance to come back into America the legal way.)
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