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[–] ScorpioGlitch 3 points (+3|-0)

Pay/login wall

[–] [Deleted] 3 points (+3|-0) Edited

I get a popup but I clicked the x and I had not issues reading it. On linux but no adblocker here... strange you are getting that. Wait, now it's paywalled WTF. Dammit. I'll see if I can fix. So the issue is the foreign body looks like much of it was like 1/2 mm thick, and it accelerated too much going around the sun, and it was very reflective vs the amount of heat it gave off, so it looks like a spaceship powered by a solar sail. It's a long interview with a scientist who talked about how instead of delivering people final results like elites, scientists should be honest when they are not sure but share their thinking process. Well I'll see if I can unpaywall it somehow.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah. And it really doesn't look worth it.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

Nah it's a good article IMO and no wall for me ... strange I'm not using popup blocker either. [Edit dammit now it's paywalled for me] Sorry

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

Short answer no.

Long answer, also no.

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

I hadn't thought of it that way.

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

Though the possibility exists. The likeliness of this interstellar object being an intelligently designed space craft akin to a von neumann probe is drastically out weighed by the probability that it's a chunk of rock that was gravitationally assisted and slung far out from a distant star.

[–] [Deleted] 0 points (+0|-0)

The data suggests It's flat though and it accelerated too much to be a rock ... but there could be some error in how they computed that or some unknown phenomenon. I wish we had a way to just fly up to it or at least observe these interesting objects more closely, like maybe have hubble space telescopes spread out through the solar system ... would cost a lot but would be so nice to have more data!