Astronomers are now certain that the mysterious object detected hurtling past our sun last month is indeed from another solar system. They have named it 1I/2017 U1(’Oumuamua) and believe it could be one of 10,000 others lurking undetected in our cosmic neighbourhood.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/acr ... lar-system

Damn you Guardian. I was hoping for a Shivan Juggernaut. But, that artist rendering... That's no asteroid!

I thought thats how it looked. Didn't even click that it was an artist's rendering - The space sector must hire lots of imaginative artists

Apparently that is the shape detected, though. But alas, it's no spaceship, because it's spinning and acting like a rock.

Can't an intergalactic space ship act like this?

Well, only if it's a ship like this one:

That's the SG:U ship right?

Yep! Obviously this was just a rock though, since it never went that close to the sun.

Or that's what it wants you to think.

I see this is picking up a trend in the news. We've had some wild theories including the possibility of an unmanned probe designed to slingshot around a target as part of a reconnaissance for a a larger craft, or an ancient alien ship that has lost all power drifting through the universe.

But it's probably still a rock. Not a natural shape, mind you...

Edit: Look at the trajectory of this thing:
The odds of a rock having that shape occur naturally, AND for it to make such a close pass to SOL's goldilocks zone and then to slingshot out?

Great Penguins of Paranoia! Along with that image it looks convincing enough it's a probe and who the fuk name that... sounds Alien

Another great theory I've spotted is that it could be a rock that has been specifically carved with a series of messages actually physically written on the surface (kind of like a giant stone tablet with some equations maybe) - so only a sufficiently advanced civilization could detect them.

No hope for us and I would say you perhaps have been watching Crusades too often

I've watched Crusade. Dunno about 'Crusades' tho.

Btw: I've transferred your books to my collection here in the UK.

I see your point. Crusade.

And now that I think of it, 'Racing the Night' was more alien writing and so I've dug up episodes from several sci-fi shows that add to this; 'A Day in the Strife' from Babylon 5 and Star Trek TNG 'Masks' - for all we know the dimensions within the comet could be greater than 3.

You have a collection outside your main residence?

Xelions wrote: Sat Dec 23, 2017 5:59 am You have a collection outside your main residence?

Yes, my childhood home! It contains most of my original collection including DVDs and the like. I used to have a VHS collection, but destroyed them (while keeping the covers) to save on shelf space.