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How can a ship 100 km in diameter cause any significant dimming of a star, which is 21,980,000 km in diameter? It would have to be pretty close to here and line
by imaginenore 10y ago
How can a ship 100 km in diameter cause any significant dimming of a star, which is 21,980,000 km in diameter? It would have to be pretty close to here and lined up just so perfectly.
Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet?
- civilian 10y agoBecause we're brainstorming here! They're not assuming anything. But yes, that's exactly the theory, that the starship is somewhere between us and them, and it sometimes dips into the focal point of light.
- jessaustin 10y agoThe moon is smaller than the sun, and yet still we have eclipses. It's just a matter of perspective. The object[s] would have to be lined up. That's why an artificial object intentionally traveling to Earth is in some sense more plausible than an asteroid, which could be headed in any direction.
- vmarsy 10y agoWhy would it be only one object? It could be a belt of random sizes and shaped asteroids that is between us and the star?
- Jill_the_Pill 10y agoOr the entire Vogon fleet?
- s_kilk 10y ago"Ok, one last time... these are small, but the one's out there are far away" - Fr. Ted Crilly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0
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- ajuc 10y ago> Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet? Specifity bias. It "feels" more probable to have object going here because someone send it here, than to just have object going here.