Oumuamua, seriously what are the odds

[CrusaderFrank]

You think it’s a scout? Or an invasion force?

A scout. That's what we'd do if we had the know how.

Maybe. But it won’t make any difference if they’re carrying a neutrino bomb or two.

Maybe they're looking for the the densest, most oblivious species in the solar system

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

 

[TheOldSchool]

We’ll see who’s laughing when it enters orbit around the earth

Oh my, the suspense is killing me...

Your skin boiling off in a barrage of laser fire raining down from the sky is going to be what’s killing you if we ignore this

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

As if the threat of North Korean nukes wasn't enough. Now we're being invaded by large penis shaped objects.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

Nothing I said implied that at all. The answer to your 'why?" is that the Sun is a massive body that exerts gravitational force on any objects which come near it.

Yes, Dale, any interstellar object that passed through the Solar System would "slingshot" around the Sun, to one degree or another. Keeping speed constant, the closer to the Sun the object passes, the smaller the angle of the slingshot path, due to the higher force of gravity exerted on the object by the Sun. It's simple ballistics.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

We’ll see who’s laughing when it enters orbit around the earth

Oh my, the suspense is killing me...

Your skin boiling off in a barrage of laser fire raining down from the sky is going to be what’s killing you if we ignore this

I remain unmoved.

 

[TheOldSchool]

We’ll see who’s laughing when it enters orbit around the earth

Oh my, the suspense is killing me...

Your skin boiling off in a barrage of laser fire raining down from the sky is going to be what’s killing you if we ignore this

I remain unmoved.

Same as the denizens of Alderaan before their planet was blown to smithereens.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Same as the denizens of Alderaan before their planet was blown to smithereens.

Yes, the imaginary apathy of so may imaginary people was palpable. well, in an imaginary sort of way.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

You know Dale, you would do really well to actually study the way that comets "slingshot" around the sun.

And yes, if the asteroid was on a certain course, there is a good possibility that the gravity of the Sun was enough to bring it in. The Suns gravitational force extends all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Same as the denizens of Alderaan before their planet was blown to smithereens.

Yes, the imaginary apathy of so may imaginary people was palpable. well, in an imaginary sort of way.

Yes, as if millions of imaginary voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

Nothing I said implied that at all. The answer to your 'why?" is that the Sun is a massive body that exerts gravitational force on any objects which come near it.

Yes, Dale, any interstellar object that passed through the Solar System would "slingshot" around the Sun, to one degree or another. Keeping speed constant, the closer to the Sun the object passes, the smaller the angle of the slingshot path, due to the higher force of gravity exerted on the object by the Sun. It's simple ballistics.

Pretty funny stuff.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Oumuamua, is the name given to a recent visitor to our solar system. It's in the classic cigar shaped UFO, was totally solid, orbited on an axis ever 7 hours, and slingshotted itself around the Sun and headed back out of the Solar system. Supposedly it's just an "asteroid" that came from out side of the solar system, yet, as if by magic, put itself on an orbit to slingshot around the Sun.

Yeah, random.

Nothing to see here.

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

You know Dale, you would do really well to actually study the way that comets "slingshot" around the sun.

And yes, if the asteroid was on a certain course, there is a good possibility that the gravity of the Sun was enough to bring it in. The Suns gravitational force extends all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

Comets are actually from within the solar system, Beavis. This wasn't

 

[ABikerSailor]

The object is very dense, so solid rock and/or metal. Sorry, today is not the day your alien delusions become true.

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

You know Dale, you would do really well to actually study the way that comets "slingshot" around the sun.

And yes, if the asteroid was on a certain course, there is a good possibility that the gravity of the Sun was enough to bring it in. The Suns gravitational force extends all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

Comets are actually from within the solar system, Beavis. This wasn't

Hey Butthead..................I told you to look at the way comets slingshot around the Sun. Why? Because comets are not alien spacecraft, yet they still slingshot around the Sun because of it's gravitational pull. This object isn't acting like a spaceship when it slingshots around, it is acting like a solid object caught by the Sun.

And, like I said, the Sun's gravity extends all the way out to the Oort cloud, almost a light year away.

 

[Zander]

It's Xenu!! The galactic overlord from Scientology.

He came back to pick up Tom Cruise.

 

[TheOldSchool]

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

You know Dale, you would do really well to actually study the way that comets "slingshot" around the sun.

And yes, if the asteroid was on a certain course, there is a good possibility that the gravity of the Sun was enough to bring it in. The Suns gravitational force extends all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

Comets are actually from within the solar system, Beavis. This wasn't

Hey Butthead..................I told you to look at the way comets slingshot around the Sun. Why? Because comets are not alien spacecraft, yet they still slingshot around the Sun because of it's gravitational pull. This object isn't acting like a spaceship when it slingshots around, it is acting like a solid object caught by the Sun.

And, like I said, the Sun's gravity extends all the way out to the Oort cloud, almost a light year away.

Or like an enemy frigate exiting hyperspace and entering orbit around the sun, awaiting further orders

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun.

"And it just so happened to slingshot around the Sun."

As would any interstellar object travelling through our Solar System that did not impact the Sun. Duh, Dale.

Really? Why? You think the Sun's gravitational pull was able to draw it close from interstellar space?

You know Dale, you would do really well to actually study the way that comets "slingshot" around the sun.

And yes, if the asteroid was on a certain course, there is a good possibility that the gravity of the Sun was enough to bring it in. The Suns gravitational force extends all the way out to the Oort Cloud.

Comets are actually from within the solar system, Beavis. This wasn't

Hey Butthead..................I told you to look at the way comets slingshot around the Sun. Why? Because comets are not alien spacecraft, yet they still slingshot around the Sun because of it's gravitational pull. This object isn't acting like a spaceship when it slingshots around, it is acting like a solid object caught by the Sun.

And, like I said, the Sun's gravity extends all the way out to the Oort cloud, almost a light year away.

Comets, by their very nature of being in our solar system are already in orbit around the Sun

This craft came from beyond our Solar System and was already traveling 60,000 mph. It could have passed through the solar system between Neptune and Pluto, instead, it slingshots around the Sun. It was probably self directed to seek out and circumnavigate the little point of light that was our Sun and it's on it's way to whatever is next. Had it just passed through the plane of the ecliptic, no big deal, just passing through. But that it set itself on a course to slingshot so closely around the Sun -- that's a big fucking deal

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

As if the threat of North Korean nukes wasn't enough. Now we're being invaded by large penis shaped objects.

Wimpworld


Maybe it's a message from our alien caretakers that we better start manning up.

 

[mamooth]

This craft came from beyond our Solar System and was already traveling 60,000 mph.

That's similar to the speed of nearby stars relative to the sun, so it's consistent with an extra-solar origin.

It could have passed through the solar system between Neptune and Pluto, instead, it slingshots around the Sun.

And many such objects are passing through the outer reaches of the solar system, too small and distant to be detected.

Sell enough tickets, someone wins the lottery. That rock was the lottery winner. You just don't see all the lottery losers, which vastly outnumber the winners.

An interstellar interloper is dashing through our solar system – Astronomy Now
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Astronomers expect an interstellar object like ‘Oumuamua passes through the inner solar system about once per year, but they are difficult to find because of their faintness and quick movement, according to an ESO press release.
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[Fort Fun Indiana]

It could have passed through the solar system between Neptune and Pluto,

It would still have "slingshot" around the Sun, even if it had passed between Neptune and Pluto. The angle would have been larger, due to the lesser force of the Sun's gravity at that distance. But it still would have slingshot.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

But that it set itself

Notice how you assume the very facts it is your burden to argue as true. Frank, you're holding an empty bag, bro.