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I don't see how this is a new discovery. That line of thinking was pretty much the implicit null hypothesis. The question at that time was, is it something mor
by fizixer 7y ago
I don't see how this is a new discovery. That line of thinking was pretty much the implicit null hypothesis.
The question at that time was, is it something more than that? and that's what made it interesting.
- goodcanadian 7y agoWe didn't know how to make shards in the presumed shape of `Oumuamua, naturally. There is now a plausible model of planets being ripped apart by tidal forces which can result in such shapes.