I mostly agree, though a long thin thing could pick up spin from the sun's gravity, whereas a spherical shape would have had to be spinning all along, if the spin wasn't made by a force acting from within the thing.Firefox wrote:My problem with virtually all of the news articles about Oumuamua is that they include a spiffy artist's impression of a spindle-shaped asteroid, but really that's just a complete guess and nobody knows what it really looks like.
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"My way is the way of not fighting":- the book of Enter the Dragon.
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In, seemingly, a year of bad news, some good - SpaceX Falcon 9.
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"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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Mice. In. Spaaaaaacce!
They seem to be having fun.
They seem to be having fun.
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They seem to be quite unhappy. The behaviour the video refers to as "doing laps" is very similar to what's seen in animals under stress, constantly walking or running around the perimeter of their enclosure. Still, science, eh? Gotta break a few eggs to make an omellette.
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It's a garbage pod! No, just kidding... It's a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg!zip accident wrote:I mostly agree, though a long thin thing could pick up spin from the sun's gravity, whereas a spherical shape would have had to be spinning all along, if the spin wasn't made by a force acting from within the thing.Firefox wrote:My problem with virtually all of the news articles about Oumuamua is that they include a spiffy artist's impression of a spindle-shaped asteroid, but really that's just a complete guess and nobody knows what it really looks like.
Be prepared to see the spiffy artist's impression again.
https://www.wired.com/story/oumuamua-mi ... n-iceberg/
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Holier than thou
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Another toy on Robot World. Great photos coming back already, equipment is in good shape.
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So, if you've ever wondered what a Kerbal Space Program launch would look like in real life:
Whoever wrote their flight control software must be a wizard. Who came from the Moon!
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