12-14-2017, 05:21 AM
objects entering our solar system
Old Croc,
The initial radio scans of Oumuamua (first discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui in October), are in, but no signs of intelligent life... yet. Radio astronomers have more data to look through however.
I didn't expect radio astronomers would detect any signals, not because the odd shape of Oumuamua may turn out to be nothing more than an unusual shaped piece of rock, but because it is tumbling as it travels through our solar system. A habitable spacecraft would more likely display greater stability on it's course, an uninhabitied spacecraft as well if it was under control by it's makers or automatic navigation systems. Perhaps our best hope is hearing a weak distress signal, transmitted with the last of its remaining power.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...id/548390/
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
Old Croc,
The initial radio scans of Oumuamua (first discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui in October), are in, but no signs of intelligent life... yet. Radio astronomers have more data to look through however.
I didn't expect radio astronomers would detect any signals, not because the odd shape of Oumuamua may turn out to be nothing more than an unusual shaped piece of rock, but because it is tumbling as it travels through our solar system. A habitable spacecraft would more likely display greater stability on it's course, an uninhabitied spacecraft as well if it was under control by it's makers or automatic navigation systems. Perhaps our best hope is hearing a weak distress signal, transmitted with the last of its remaining power.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...id/548390/
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers, 1787
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