It's perfectly cylindrical and only visibly rotating because if some old dark patch, otherwise it would be uniform brightness like smooth metal. It is unnaturally moving along the long axis like a bullet, not tumbling in the slightest.
It's moving at a significant fraction of C that is hard to imagine.
It accelerated away from our solar system, defying gravity and the only natural reason anyone can think of - outgassing - has been definitively ruled out. It's also far too young for it's velocity to have sent it to our sun from the direction it came to have formed naturally from interstellar gases. It's moving fast but not fast enough for that specific vector to work.
“ When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”
It is improbable but the only explanation that makes sense is some form of propulsion. Its trajectory and course change seem like a gravity boost maneuver augmenting whatever it used to accelerate against gravity as it changed heading on it's new course.
If this was a Rama novel we would expect 2 more. Ramana do everything in threes.
Also thank you for bringing us back to the cool conspiracies. Sick of news updates being a conspiracy in this new 1984 world.
I'm none of those things! Just repeating what I researched and there isn't a lot out there. The mathematical chances of life out there somewhere is very high, and intelligent life still high, but for it to find us and stay hidden is near zero. Think about how expensive it would be to send our ships to alien worlds... We would plunder them for their gold and platinum and oil and lithium, and give them plastic trinkets in return. It's what we do historically, and hiding is weirdly unprofitable. The Prime Directive us fiction! so this kind of thing makes sense to me logically. Either it's a random chance some vessel used our sun as a gravity boost or someone out there heard us and sent a probe, being careful to maneuver it do it didn't point right back where they came from. Probably dozens more possibilities more likely I can't think of because I'm not that smart... But what I know is it wasn't a physics defying comet that was born yesterday from nothingness as the natural explanations would have us believe.
I immediately thought of Rama reading about this.
It's perfectly cylindrical and only visibly rotating because if some old dark patch, otherwise it would be uniform brightness like smooth metal. It is unnaturally moving along the long axis like a bullet, not tumbling in the slightest.
It's moving at a significant fraction of C that is hard to imagine.
It accelerated away from our solar system, defying gravity and the only natural reason anyone can think of - outgassing - has been definitively ruled out. It's also far too young for it's velocity to have sent it to our sun from the direction it came to have formed naturally from interstellar gases. It's moving fast but not fast enough for that specific vector to work.
“ When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”
It is improbable but the only explanation that makes sense is some form of propulsion. Its trajectory and course change seem like a gravity boost maneuver augmenting whatever it used to accelerate against gravity as it changed heading on it's new course.
If this was a Rama novel we would expect 2 more. Ramana do everything in threes.
Also thank you for bringing us back to the cool conspiracies. Sick of news updates being a conspiracy in this new 1984 world.
I'm none of those things! Just repeating what I researched and there isn't a lot out there. The mathematical chances of life out there somewhere is very high, and intelligent life still high, but for it to find us and stay hidden is near zero. Think about how expensive it would be to send our ships to alien worlds... We would plunder them for their gold and platinum and oil and lithium, and give them plastic trinkets in return. It's what we do historically, and hiding is weirdly unprofitable. The Prime Directive us fiction! so this kind of thing makes sense to me logically. Either it's a random chance some vessel used our sun as a gravity boost or someone out there heard us and sent a probe, being careful to maneuver it do it didn't point right back where they came from. Probably dozens more possibilities more likely I can't think of because I'm not that smart... But what I know is it wasn't a physics defying comet that was born yesterday from nothingness as the natural explanations would have us believe.
Good post. Yeah this was one of the most interesting stories in recent years.