07-02-2019, 09:52 AM
Curious how often a simple thing like paraphrasing reports ends up reflecting our own beliefs rather than the truth of the information being passed on.
glinda,
There were numerous articles about the announcement. TomK posted a link right after mine which if you read all the way through, contains the following statements:
An international team of asteroid and comet experts, including two from the University of Hawai#699;i, agrees on a natural origin for our first interstellar visitor.
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While the ISSI team hopes that LSST will detect more interstellar objects they think it is unlikely that astronomers will ever detect an alien spacecraft passing through our solar system and they are convinced that #699;Oumuamua was a unique and extremely interesting but completely natural object.
Those statements are directly from people who studied Oumuamua, which I assume you will probably agree is probably not paraphrased by a newspaper reporter.
glinda,
There were numerous articles about the announcement. TomK posted a link right after mine which if you read all the way through, contains the following statements:
An international team of asteroid and comet experts, including two from the University of Hawai#699;i, agrees on a natural origin for our first interstellar visitor.
...
While the ISSI team hopes that LSST will detect more interstellar objects they think it is unlikely that astronomers will ever detect an alien spacecraft passing through our solar system and they are convinced that #699;Oumuamua was a unique and extremely interesting but completely natural object.
Those statements are directly from people who studied Oumuamua, which I assume you will probably agree is probably not paraphrased by a newspaper reporter.
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