Clarke - pizza man
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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Clarke - pizza man
His early stuff is great!
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:
I heard the probe is heading for Uranus.
I have that book!
Enjoyed it and his other later works as well.
Like I said, They are weird!................
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...
Comets are the dirt clods of the universe.
Nothing more.
And STOCK UP ON TASTY HUMANS FOR THE TRIP!
More likely than not they’d be like the ones in Battleship.
Generation ship.
But Rama wasn’t a cigar, it was a potato. Just ask the Russians!
Yes, but this ‘clod’ is long and skinny!..................
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.
+1
Apologies.....
no....its a rock Jim.
It's a LIVING ROCK!...............
Klintoon’s used cigar?
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