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By alien (as in the article’s headline, do the authors limit their claim to “from another star”, or do they actually mean that some other intelligence construct
by vages 7y ago
By alien (as in the article’s headline, do the authors limit their claim to “from another star”, or do they actually mean that some other intelligence constructed it?
- namarie 7y agoIt'd be much bigger news if it was constructed, I'd think.
- aetherspawn 7y agoHey if I were observing humans, all my ships would look and scan like comets.
- perl4ever 7y agoAs we see from New Horizons, a flyby gives you very limited options for scanning. But hanging around requires eliminating nearly all the velocity you had to get there, which is infeasible.
- mkl 7y agoNothing to do with intelligence at all. It's a comet, and a pretty ordinary one, not a spacecraft. What makes it alien is that it's not in orbit around the sun, it's just passing through.