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Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by cronix on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:54AM (#25847878)
Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU

Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by libertine on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:13AM (#25848147)
Very interesting, and it gives a really good highlight of the whole Oumuamua event, which got a bit distorted in the media.

The things that stood out were:

- Our range of vision to spot such objects is narrow;

- We don't have much "resolution" of the object, and we have to work with limited data;

- that fact that we managed to get that data was already really good and it's enough to theorize about a lot of stuff, but not enough to tell precisely what it was.

- the object behavior as it approached the sun doesn't match the type of object that we perceived at the beginning;

- the object could have been stationary;

Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by dfsegoat on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:04AM (#25848016)
Having watched the vid, he goes into specifics of why he thinks Oumuamua is 'not a rock' based on geometry and reflectivity. It was quite fascinating.
Re:Have we already been visited by aliens? by TacoToni on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:08AM (#25848086)
Fantastic episode.