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I thought one of the main issues arising with the "alien tech" theory is that this object was moving too slowly to ever make it to our solar system in any timel
by Ancalagon 6y ago
I thought one of the main issues arising with the "alien tech" theory is that this object was moving too slowly to ever make it to our solar system in any timely manner? Thats not to say it couldn't have slowed down prior to us finding it, but if its a detached light sail why wouldn't the alien probe have detached it at higher speeds to have less mass to slow down?
- kentonv 6y agoThe probe would have needed to use the light sail to slow down as it approached the target star. Really, the opposite is a better argument: How could the probe have landed safely on Mercury (or wherever) after ejecting from a light sale that still had enough velocity to escape the solar system?