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

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

It's very much like a foot but I believe it refers more specifically to the foot-like appendage of a species which seeks to violently supplant the human race. Hope that helps!

but what if a species with eight vaginas is discovered, what the hell do you call that

slipknot

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0372/6877/products/DT1851_dd555196-2995-463c-8785-f0bf04209fa1_2000x.jpg

https://media.giphy.com/media/fLmiz1Ogta3bbOdBXx/giphy.gif

cant wait for avi so-called loeb's *next* highly original book == "thread of dinosaurs gazing hapless at the oncoming meteor"

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/interstellar-visitor-found-to-be-unlike-a-comet-or-an-asteroid

(old article, but I don't think it was linked before)

close but no cigar

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/18/space-oddity-oumuamua-probably-shard-of-pluto-like-world-scientists-say

poor Pluto - even less of not a planet anymore.

oh "Pluto-like"

just read that there might be an estimated 50 billion rogue planets in the milky way, some 3d billiards game is that.

wait so this flying object is merely cookie-shaped, as in cookie-shaped like some sort of SAUCER?

pilot (arriving in solar system): "this looks like a good spot my dear"
alien (sitting in next seat, not driving but staring): "not here not here not here!"

Busy outer solar system out there

https://entertainment.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2012/02/asteroids.jpg

more updates on the "exo-Pluto" theory

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/science/astronomy-oumuamua-comet.html

god it looks delicious

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

weird gray space dong and name of my wifi network

brb, changing my name to otm