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Re:Have Aliens Found Us? (2019) by thrusong on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#21949092)
Wow, that's crazy... It sure seems so.
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Re:Have Aliens Found Us? (2019) by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:07PM (#21949195)
Not really, the deviation is not that large for the scales we're talking about and there are still plenty of potential explanations. Hell, for the longest time we couldn't explain why our own Pioneer spacecraft deviated from expected trajectories and we knew precisely what they were made of.
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Re:Have Aliens Found Us? (2019) by DiogenesKynikos on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:19PM (#21949310)
... with the most likely explanation being outgassing.

Seligman et al. (2019): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0bb5

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Re:Have Aliens Found Us? (2019) by ASalazarMX on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:25PM (#21949371)
If that's so, all comets could be probes.
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