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Has an alien probe entered our solar system? Cigar-shaped interstellar 'comet' ...
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| 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: Telepathic Intruder
Clarke - pizza man
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posted on
12/12/2017 7:51:37 AM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
His early stuff is great!
His later stuff, just about ten years before he passed, is weird. Good, but weird...............
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posted on
12/12/2017 7:55:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger; Telepathic Intruder
His later stuff, just about ten years before he passed, is weird. Good, but weird...............
I know that I'm in a distinct minority here, but probably my favorite Heinlein book was one his later ones:
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:01:58 AM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
To: Red Badger
Has an alien probe entered our solar system? I heard the probe is heading for Uranus.
To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
To: BlueLancer
I have that book!
Enjoyed it and his other later works as well.
Like I said, They are weird!................
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:14:42 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Noumenon
Really, it’s PACKED with millennia of cultural artifacts and riches from advanced civilizations and it’s set up so if you’ve got good sublight or ftl you can benefit from it and add some of your own and if not, oh well on to the next system...
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:27:53 AM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Red Badger
Comets are the dirt clods of the universe.
Nothing more.
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:28:34 AM PST
by
RedMonqey
(“Better to die on your feet than living on your knees”)
To: Red Badger
And STOCK UP ON TASTY HUMANS FOR THE TRIP!
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:30:13 AM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: bgill
More likely than not they’d be like the ones in Battleship.
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:31:20 AM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: allendale
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:35:30 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: bioqubit
But Rama wasn’t a cigar, it was a potato. Just ask the Russians!
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:41:52 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
To: RedMonqey
Yes, but this ‘clod’ is long and skinny!..................
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:46:50 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: D_Idaho
Not at all. There is science that can be used to get a good idea of its physical dimensions:
The Physics Behind the Strange Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua'
But if you can't see it, how can you describe it? The answer to this (as in many situations in science) is to use indirect observations. The one thing that can be measured is the brightness of the object. Because this rock is also spinning, the light it reflects from the sun changes over time. By looking at the ratio of the brightest to weakest observations, you can get an estimate of largest to smallest size. If you estimate the albedo (a measure of reflectance), you can also estimate the total size. Boom. There you have it—a cigar-shaped asteroid.
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:47:41 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
To: Red Badger
75
posted on
12/12/2017 8:52:21 AM PST
by
kanawa
(Trump Loves a Great Deal)
To: Red Badger
Hmmmmm - cigar-shaped - might be one of them Clinton probes...
Apologies.....
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posted on
12/12/2017 8:59:14 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
78
posted on
12/12/2017 9:09:32 AM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: G Larry
It's a LIVING ROCK!...............
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posted on
12/12/2017 9:24:21 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
80
posted on
12/12/2017 9:28:17 AM PST
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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