Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds

Futurism ^ | 21/9/25

[Eleutheria5]

This is all Elon Musk's fault. He summoned Johnny-Planet-Seed here to create a Plan B in case Mars isn't doable. Damn these geniuses. I'm staying to enjoy the global warming.

[beef]

In the last 7 years, we have identified 3 objects which definitely originate from outside the solar system. Prior to that, none. So we either failed to identify them, or?

Curiouser and curiouser.

[Carriage Hill]

Panspermia?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Rubbish. There are millions of objects the size of 31/ATLAS or greater roaming the solar system. Being from interstellar space gives it no advantages in “planet seeding”—just the opposite since interstellar objects will almost always take hyperbolic paths back out again.

[DCBryan1]

I've seen this movie:

[Sirius Lee]

Panspermia?

Remind me to never eat at that restaurant.

[Flaming Conservative]

Someone needs to write a fantastic script or novel along the lines of War Of The Worlds, about this. Laz?

[Carriage Hill]

Looks interesting; what’s the movie’s name?

[Carriage Hill]

</chuckle>

[cgbg]

Yup—most science fiction writers have more compelling and credible narratives that a lot of scientists these days.

[GingisK]

Prior to that, none.

Prior to that we didn't have the telescopes in orbit looking for them.

[Theophilus]

‘You can observe a lot, just by watching” - Yogi Berra

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

May, and her chum Might, are slightly more entertaining that “experts” and “scientists,” but not by much.

[Yo-Yo]

[Don W]

We didn’t even know that our galaxy was one of billions until 100 years ago. Up until around 100 years ago most of us thought our local group of galaxies was the universe. We couldn’t discern planets orbiting distant stars until very recently.

Our observation platforms and methods are getting better, so we are seeing things we missed before. That’s all there is to it, it’s not some great conspiracy.

[bert]

Accretion.

Gravity results in accretion that results in planets and rings.

Earth’s ring consists of only the moon

[bert]

What we know now is that we really don’t know anything.

What the new telescopes reveal is simply beyond comprehension

[beef]

Hubble has been up there for over 30 years. Atlas is ground based.

[GingisK]

"paper finds"

Then that paper finds its way to the head, or the other end. Um, you know what I mean, the Sears catalogue's secondary usage of old.

[yesthatjallen]

There’s no mystery. It’s a comet.