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"I summarized six strange facts about ‘Oumuamua. The first one is that we didn’t expect this object to exist in the first place" It's from outside our solar sy
by Zenst 7y ago
"I summarized six strange facts about ‘Oumuamua. The first one is that we didn’t expect this object to exist in the first place"
It's from outside our solar system in origin, so I'd say we are not 100% in predicting what to expect, more so when we still can't get weather forecasts 100% right and get unexpected weather events.
Having gone thru the other `interpretations of observations`, I'd probably not of been as quick to lean down that path of aliens. Indeed, whilst it is unusual, comparing it to the known and as such, objects originating in our solar system will see conflicts like orbit, speed, direction, shape and composition. I'd also say it's strange shape would play more a factor in the variance of how light is reflected back and be more logical an explanation of its variance from the `norm`.
Besides, for all we know, `aliens` may view a lifeform like us in the same way we view bacteria. So the question would be, if Aliens found us - would they care.
But is this an alien probe - I'm sure many would love it to be so, but as it stands, feels a bit too reaching from what I read.
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- nck4222 7y agoI feel like there has to be a razor stating something like "It's more likely that our expectations were wrong due to a lack of initial knowledge, rather than the explanation being aliens." Because it seems like time and time again someone proposes aliens when in reality it's just some phenomenon or variable we hadn't observed yet.
- dylan604 7y agoYeah, but "due to some phenomenon we hadn't observed yet" doesn't get many clicks on the link
- davidcuddeback 7y agoIt sounds a lot like God of the gaps [1], only with aliens instead of God. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
- koboll 7y agoGod and aliens have a lot in common. People usually interpret the "beings" you "meet" on DMT as one or the other. Almost as if they're two sides of one coin: our mind's tendency to gravitate toward an anthropomorphic explanation for unexplained phenomena and stimuli.
- krapp 7y agoThe modern alien mythology has more in common with ancient stories of demons and fae. They're basically the same thing with different cultural contexts applied.
- senectus1 7y agoAliens are a lot more likely to exist than gods, thats not to say that they've ever found us. That in itself is fairly unlikely.
- ozim 7y agoJust go with the whole quote plese... "We see the solar system and we can calculate at what rate it ejected rocks during its history. And if we assume all planetary systems around other stars are doing the same thing, we can figure out what the population of interstellar objects should be. That calculation results in a lot of possibilities, but the range is much less than needed to explain the discovery of ‘Oumuamua." That is freaking broad assumption. What is history we can calculate at what rate it ejected rocks? Last 100 years? Last 2000 years? What about younger systems? Did they calculated it for whole lifetime of solar system? I am quite skeptic because you know those scientists need to get paid and probably if you are just looking at stars you are not paid enough... Because mostly nothing interesting happens there.
- Psyladine 7y agoWait til you get to the part about how the aliens, who are definitely visiting us, probably don't exist anymore "because we don't take care of our planet" Yeah we're so terribly we exist, and have enough surplus food for this idiot to search for extraterrestrial life and simultaneously flagellate his species.