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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Touche!
Yeah. That series went down the ecowacko rabbit hole in a hurry.
Odd how so many UFO’s over the decades have been described as ‘cigar shaped’, now this..............................
Green Mars, Blue Mars? Kim Stanley Robinson was a bit of a communist from what I hear, and it’s apparent in the books. But it was light enough to overlook in Red Mars (which I did like). My recommendation: don’t read sequels.
Don’t real *the* sequels, I mean. I’m not anti-sequel.
Arthur C. Clarke’s “Rendezvous with Rama” is obviously still remembered.
Moon / Mars does make for a great cover story...
A whole series......................
You delivered!! ;-)
“Or did you mean this one?”
No, but that’ll add to the forum well. :-)
Yep, that works.
Don’t take that literal to the hands & question, lol. ;-)
Whitley Strieber was always talking about probes back in the Art Bell days.
If the ETs put out a call for Monica, we will know you’re right!
>>If the ETs put out a call for Monica, we will know you’re right!<<
Lol!
Maybe it is indeed an artifact of intelligent life, but it is a dead husk of a craft, no longer powered but merely drifting according to Newtonian Law.
If it comes around again, I hope it enters our atmosphere and lands on Macross Island. Because that's when the fun starts.
Unfortunately, based on its path, it’s never coming back again. It went through too quickly for the sun to capture it, so this is the last we’re going to see of it unless it turns out to really be something artificial that reacts to our presence.
If it is a machine, and was simply sent in on an unpowered trip through our solar system to see if we’d try to interact with it, and we manage to “wake it up”, presumably it would then perform some kind of maneuver to allow it to come back for a closer look, or pick up passengers, or whatever its mission is.
In a word, No. Looks like a giant fossil turd, really. Thanks Red Badger.
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