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

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

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…