Post by faskew on Nov 6, 2018 8:54:19 GMT -5
Trying to account for the odd behavior of the object, a couple of folk at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have submitted a paper saying that maybe it's not a natural object. No real proof, just guessing. But bound to get a lot of attention.
In SF this has been a popular subject for decades, but the general thinking is that it requires too much time to get anywhere. Imagine a probe that we sent back in 1965 that reached a planet in 2065. The world would have changed so much in 100 years that the probe might be pointless. And that's for something very close to earth. Most interesting space stuff is much, much further away. Better to stick to scans that we can do from earth. Besides, when we look at a planet 1,000 light years away, what we're seeing is that place 1,000 years ago. It may not even exist any more.
Now it does make sense for a alien civilization to be paranoid and want to destroy any cultures that might become a danger in the future. So they might send destroyer craft to any planets that show evidence of life. Time not so important for these, so long as you take out potential foes before they can develop into a danger with their technology. 8->
www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html
In SF this has been a popular subject for decades, but the general thinking is that it requires too much time to get anywhere. Imagine a probe that we sent back in 1965 that reached a planet in 2065. The world would have changed so much in 100 years that the probe might be pointless. And that's for something very close to earth. Most interesting space stuff is much, much further away. Better to stick to scans that we can do from earth. Besides, when we look at a planet 1,000 light years away, what we're seeing is that place 1,000 years ago. It may not even exist any more.
Now it does make sense for a alien civilization to be paranoid and want to destroy any cultures that might become a danger in the future. So they might send destroyer craft to any planets that show evidence of life. Time not so important for these, so long as you take out potential foes before they can develop into a danger with their technology. 8->
www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html
