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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If it was we obviously weren’t interesting enough for them to stop by.
Galactic Roadside Attraction FAIL!
And THAT was one scary movie ...!
“Given the laws of physics and the incredible distances to the nearest stars, no living biological or functioning mechanical entity can reach earth”
Based upon “physics” as we understand them. There is more that we don’t know than we do.
Left out ‘illegal’.
Hey now, that is a picture from one of our satellites.
That is no interstellar RV ... THIS is an interstellar RV:
We need a sign:
LAST CHANCE FOR GAS NEXT 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 MILES!......................
If they send us back CNN broadcasts the meaning is clear—they have concluded we are stupid idiots and must be invaded and annihilated immediately!
Scientists are set to investigate a month after it passed us. A bit behind, huh.
Sure, because aliens send out radio signals. If they wanted to contact this little undeveloped planet, don’t you think they would have?
And all aliens are friendly, right?
Childhoods End....
I read Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert. The stories never get old.................
chances are slim. As of October 2005, astronomers have been able to detect the presence of planets around only 28 G-type stars (including Sol) — or around 5.5 percent — of those 511 stars located within 100 light-years of Earth. so, 28 chances.
Until they get hungry.................
I had to plunge something similarly shaped the other day.
Was it a quarter mile wide and ten times as long?................
The only one of those I haven’t read just about every book is Heinlein. For some reason, I started a couple but never finished.
It felt like it.
The Death Bugle, blueberry flavor!
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