oumuamua: mysterious coat of carbon-rich gunk hiding an icy heart

I saw tis indian film of two nude people going at it reproductively for an hour in the pouiring rain ! what was that !?!

seriosly!

’oumuamua what's on your ipod
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive and Have a Cigar
Muddy Waters - Rollin’ and Tumblin’

it's a panspermia starter kit

Earth: Fertilizer: Let's Go!

earth to be spaded under, rock and roll

"Interstellar cumshot"

"Now a pair of Harvard researchers are raising the possibility that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft"

(well it kind of throws it in at the end to get attention, the paper is actually about a possible cause of its "non-gravitational acceleration")

(the artist's impression that everyone runs with pop versions of this story rather disguises the fact that it is not zipping along like a needlenose rocket but whirling end to end like a boomerang, the aliens within presumably unable to correct this bcz they've been dizzy to the point of vomiting for at least the last 14,500 years, when they were sideswiped by a big space truck turning carelessly out of the alpha centauri feed-route)

absolute unit imo

'oumuamunit

in your face gustave eiffel

https://metrouk2-files-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/prc_63486593.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&zoom=1&resize=480%2C406

first alien probe of the space age reaches us and all the impressive assemblage of telescopes and sensors on planet earth are asleep on the job and only get a half decent shot of it. Typical.

https://i.imgur.com/cmmAhsI.jpg

tbf they didn't say it's the whole ship, just a wing mirror

There was a fun thread on Twitter a few days ago linking it to the Trump ‘space force’ announcement, the mysterious closure of a major US observatory by the FBI, several key satellite telescopes going ‘offline’ at the same time. It’s the kind of good old-fashioned conspiracy theory I have been missing.

I googled the FBI observatory thing.. supposedly it was a janitor looking at porn what caused all the ruckus. BUT THAT'S A VERY CONVENIENT EXCUSE amirite conspiracy friends?

sometimes a cigar-shaped alien asteroid is just a

that janitor's name was Faux Mullder

fucks boulders morelike

i don't generally read them but i just realised i am pathologically unable to delete any rando email that comes my way which contains the words ANCIENT ALIENS (usually but not always from pinterest).

JUST IN CASE i guess

also this reminds me that whenever i see some bozo (or it may be not entirely a bozo) with the given job description "theorist", the phrase that comes unbidden into my head is "Ancient Alien Theorists argue that… "

cultural theorists drive like this, ancient alien theorists etc

it's Mr. Hankey from South Park!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cosmic-radio-waves-space-located-light-years-milky-way-csiro-telescope-space-a8978096.html

ancient alien theorists have bad hair

counterpoint: i’m bald

I call that bad hair.

the only winning move is not to play

https://juicyecumenism.com/wp-content/uploads/image01-3.jpg

I got zugzwanged by badld genes as well, but at least looking like shit all the time gives you one less thing to worry about :p

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/061/297/nickcage.jpeg?1279885944

xp because of the zugzwang...

i'm being told poseidon was an extra-terrestrial bcz the sea is not the land

(this ep is abt undersea aliens)

aside from being the most enraging talking head in history (and doing brexit), von daniken favours the term "woman-girl", as in "poseidon found a young woman-girl and he took this woman-girl and made her pregnant"

the other primary theorist sounds exactly like loyd grossman

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C24GzKeXgAAo2qr?format=jpg&name=large

uncannily like Nicolas "bird hair" Cage above

i dremt it was piloted by octopuses hunting for their lost cousins and when they saw their plight down here on earth and the toxic pickle this planet is in they turned round to go get reinforcements and also cleaning materials

i’ve recently come around to thinking that straight-up benevolent alien intervention might be the only hope we have left so i endorse this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOgpnidwPiQ

we don't deserve them (except as our pitiless overlords)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG6JebW63f4

holy christ that's terrifying

this crossover with the d'awwwctopus thread pleases me

hadrian, ilx is an octopus-positive space fyi

^^ was gonna say

i like the way the d'awwwctopus unscrews the lid and then just settles comfortably back into the jar: all the time in the world, reinforcements (and cleaning materials) are on the way

also it reminds me of what nietzsche said abt kant, except in this instance it's good not bad (no need to hurry out into overlordship)

can't wait to see how sanguine y'all are about your cthulhoid conquerors once they begin exsanguinating u

enh, i've had a good run tbh, i'm ready

OL OTM hope you all enjoy the nerve toxins after cutey's radula has slowly drilled a hole into your sternum

I'll be well inland

i know octo is 8 but what's a pus

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Stomp.gif

2022 update
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/was-interstellar-object-oumuamua-a-chunk-of-exo-pluto/

Here is where we get to the new (and, as yet, unpublished) work. Our Sun isn’t the most common type of star; cooler M-type stars are much more common. M stars are more favorable environments for the creation of worlds covered in nitrogen ice. In our solar system, you have to be nearly at the orbit of Neptune, at 15 a.u., for nitrogen ice to be stable on the surface. However, stars at the lower end of the mass range (technically classified as M8) can host worlds with nitrogen ice at only 1 a.u.

Taking into account the huge population of M stars and their more favorable environments for hosting nitrogen ice, Desch and Jackson found that M stars will have ejected 40 times more nitrogen ice fragments than stars like our Sun.

That contrast is enough for `Oumuamua’s appearance in our backyard to be a likely accident. Its trajectory, which lies in the galactic plane and has relatively low speed for an interstellar interloper, indicates that it hasn’t been roaming the galaxy on its own for very long; it probably exited its parent solar system up to a few hundred million years ago.

it hasn’t been roaming the galaxy on its own for very long... up to a few hundred million years ago.

astronomers have funny ideas about time

NEWS 🚨: Unidentified Oumuamua interstellar object is just now RE-ENTERING THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH A STEEL CHAIR pic.twitter.com/LQmzm0afbY

— lindsay coagvla 🚫🤠 (@titwave) December 8, 2022

the James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that SHOULD NOT EXIST

in conclusion the universe is so effing big it is yielding contradictory data to stupid little confused lifeforms

it's too big!

Why does anything exist? did they answer that one yet? seems a bit improbable that anything does exist tbh.

I assume you're looking for a better answer than "slight difference between the amounts of matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang"?

:(

A team of researchers from the UC Berkeley and Cornell found a surprisingly simple explanation for ʻOumuamua's non-gravitational acceleration:https://t.co/qvMNSECL3A

— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) November 8, 2023

for non-twitter-havers it reads "A team of researchers from the UC Berkeley and Cornell found a surprisingly simple explanation for ʻOumuamua's non-gravitational acceleration" and links to this: https://www.universal-sci.com/article/cause-of-oumuamuas-non-gravitational-acceleration

that surprisingly simple explanation in full:

oumuamua was fart-propelled

as are we all

mostly you tho

i am as god made me, sir (a small object estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres (300 and 3,000 ft) long, with its width and thickness both estimated between 35 and 167 metres (115 and 548 ft))

I for one welcome Amaterasu, "one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected".

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/24/amaterasu-extremely-high-energy-particle-detected-falling-to-earth

This article was amended on 24 November 2023 to clarify some of the wording, based on agency copy, that was used in an earlier version regarding the speed of particles.

that copy:

Some charged particles in the air shower travel faster than the speed of light, producing a type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by specialised instruments.

idk maybe it's technically correct (mutters something about group velocity or c in a vacuum)

The Amaterasu particle has an energy exceeding 240 exa-electron volts (EeV), millions of times more than particles produced in the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful accelerator ever built, and equivalent to the energy of a golf ball travelling at 95mph.

I would not want to be in its way, but a 95mph golf ball does not seem that cosmically terrifying?

what if that golf ball actually went through your brain?

"In September 2011, it was reported, in a major release by CERN, that a tau neutrino had traveled faster than the speed of light; however, later updates from CERN on the OPERA experiment indicate that the faster-than-light readings were due to a faulty element of the experiment's fibre optic timing system.[12]"

it aint over till…

there he is (avi so-called loeb)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreiaaeozu3pprjamfowgooewxjhnhelx72rn4lrvpy2hx3n7mqezvna@jpeg

bring back oumuamua

weird gray space dong and name of my wifi network

brb, changing my name to otm