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Scientists Reveal Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua’ Has Organic Shell
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| 12-20-2017
| Nate Church
Posted on 12/20/2017 6:44:36 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
Jim... It's organic.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:06:45 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: gr8eman
...with Interstellar Overdrive on it!
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:07:39 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: jerod
Well, the Empire does like to dump their garbage before jumping to light speed.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:08:21 AM PST
by
bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: bar sin·is·ter
Maybe even the next convention!.................
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:08:54 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Pontiac
I think, as always, that the principle of “Occam’s Razor” applies.
If it looks like a rock, acts like a rock and there is no reason to think it is other than a rock, it probably is a rock.
Just because it hails from some unknown place of unknown origin and is an unusual event/object, leads no rational person to think it is other than a rock....
Glad to know that the astronomy folks have the tools to see it, track it and ponder about it. But come on, it is a dead rock from somewhere else. It won’t tell us anything we need to know. All we can do is scan it with various sensors and pretend to interpret something from the analysis.
It is a rock.
Can I get my Nobel prize in science now or do I have to wait?
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:10:16 AM PST
by
Manly Warrior
(US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
To: Red Badger
That was my first thought when I first heard of this.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:11:19 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
( Les deplorables sont victorieux!)
To: ConservativeDude
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:11:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: gr8eman
Ummagumma...................
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:12:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: blam
Well at least we still have some humpback whales in the ocean...
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:13:52 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
To: blam
Berzerker on a recon mission.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:15:12 AM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Red Badger
That is a GREAT movie.
I very much enjoy watching it.
Still wish MST3K had done it.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:21:13 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: blam
Aliens! </Arnold J. Rimmer>
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:25:40 AM PST
by
null and void
(The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Other times it’s a tour bus, or a very yuge bacterium.
To: blam
“result of unknown organic matter which shields its internal ice from the suns immense heat”
How do they know its insides are made of ice?
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:26:54 AM PST
by
Colo9250
(Obama's scout ship just passed by)
To: blam
Waiting now for the cat & pickle gifs.
To: blam
Where the heck has the author of this article been for the last several months?
Oumuamua was already classified as being comprised of metallic or rocky materials. The reddish coating has already been explained as being the result of cosmic ray bombardment over millions of years, and the presence of an “organic coating” means it has methane dust and other simple products of organic chemistry on it.
To: Manly Warrior
It is a rock.My first thought when the initial stories appeared was, "What's the big deal?" There are plenty of rocks on earth that shatter into long, angular pieces. (Is is mostly sedimentary rocks that do this?) The thing I don't understand is the repeated assertion that the shape is unlike anything else ever detected in space. Is that really true?
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:50:11 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: blam
Everybody got their Slim Whitman cds handy...?
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:50:49 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Red Badger
One of their more esoteric albums.
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:51:59 AM PST
by
bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: exDemMom
The old ice shedding theory was debunked a decade ago. It’s non magnetic and non conductive so it has no tail...
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posted on
12/20/2017 7:53:03 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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