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What do you mean?
by spuz 7y ago
What do you mean?
- captn3m0 7y agoIt’s a rock.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoA rock can be a visitor. Figurative language exists.
- The_rationalist 7y agoIt introduce slightly harmful ambiguity for no other reason than clickbait.
- xena 7y agoIt's almost like clickbait pays the bills or something
- penagwin 7y agoI see the reason that it could be seen as click bait, but given the context I don't think many people on HN will think it was animate. It also says "another", and since we haven't been visited by life before it would suggest they meant it more as "this thing will visit us, thus it's a 'visitor'"
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI think it invokes benign imagery, not the promise of "war of the worlds" panic. It's not like it's "Top 10 reasons this interstellar visitor is coming to earth - number 6 will surprise you!"
- garmaine 7y agoIt doesn’t need to be phrased as a question. Also, it’s an inanimate rock.
- psiops 7y agoIf I understood correctly, the hyperbolic trajectory is for now still contestable. So whether the "visitor" is really interstellar in nature is indeed still a question.
- garmaine 7y agoIt is definitely interstellar in origin: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html