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A comment on Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua. Parent comment

Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by ianai on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:28PM (#15901194)
Seconded. They did say it was oddly rectangular/columnar.
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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by fao_ on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:19PM (#15902333)
This reads as if you're trying to draw a similarity between Oumuamua and Rama, but if that's the case, Rama was spherical, so I don't see the similarity. The only other thing I can think of is that the 2OO1(&) monolith was rectangular, but they never really moved IIRC.

(&): Sorry, screenreaders, but it's so much nicer with the letter 'o' rather than zeros :/

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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by garmaine on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:20PM (#15902338)
...no? It was cylindrical in the book.
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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by fao_ on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:37AM (#15912271)
Holy crap. You're right! I read it back in February and must have consistently read "cylindrical" as "spherical" :o

I guess I should go back to see if the experience is better knowing the true shape...

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Re:Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Objec... by ianai on Monday December 11, 2017 @09:33PM (#15902609)
Iirc, it was all cylindrical.
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