'Oumuamua is a foreign visitor, from an alien Pluto style planet

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Joel Kontinen 

Ever since it floated into our system, the interstellar visitor Oumuamua has intrigued and perplexed scientists. In 2017, 'Oumuamua was heralded as a spaceship sent by aliens. 

This was the opinion that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb had. This was the opinion that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb had. However, a new study says that 'Oumuamua's origin is explained by the fact that “two Arizona State University researchers argue that a nitrogen iceberg fits the data at least as well as a hydrogen iceberg: Such an iceberg could have become a wide disk as its surface slowly evaporated during its travels through the galaxy, just like a bar of soap flattens over the course of many showers. And,like hydrogen, evaporating nitrogen wouldn't be visible to telescopes””.

Source:

 Letzter,  Rafi, 2021.  Interstellar visitor came from an 'alien Pluto,' new study suggests  Live Science 19 March. 

'Oumuamua is not a space invader, sent by aliens to spy on Earth

 

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Joel Kontinen

Ever since it floated into our system, the interstellar visitor Oumuamua has intrigued and perplexed scientists. Now, a new theory has said that the cigar shaped space rock might actually be a DUST BUMMNNY,

The study, led by Jane Luu, an astronomer at the University of Oslo in Norway, was published  'Oumuamuaon September 4 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests that the ”interstellar space rock could have formed from dust blown off the nucleus of a comet outside of our solar system. This rock, an accumulation of rock and dust from the comet, would be pushed through space by solar radiation and eventually take a short tour of our solar system.”

The cigar-shaped interloper ”could have formed from dust blown off the nucleus of a comet outside of our solar system. This rock, an accumulation of rock and dust from the comet, would be pushed through space by solar radiation and eventually take a short tour of our solar system.”

Some early texts supposed that 'Oumuamua was a space invader, sent by aliens to spy on Earth.

Source:

Gohd, Chelsea. 2020. Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua could actually be a cosmic dust bunny   Live Science 9 September.

New Story About 'Oumuamua interstellar Visitor does not involve aliens

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Joel Kontinen


‘Oumuamua is not from our solar system. What is it? Where does it come from?

Last fall, there were no easy answers to this.

Astronomers believe this rogue increased Its speed slightly as it passed the sun and acted like a comet. It comes from either the red dwarf star HIP 3757, the sun-like HD 292249, or a couple of other stars that are missing a name.

Now a Sino-American study says it was probably a part of the larger
body of planets.

Source:

Wall, Mike, 2020. new origin story of 'Oumuamua interstellar visitor does not involve aliens Space. Com. 13 April.

First Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Probably Isn't an Alien Spacecraft, Scientists Conclude

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Joel Kontinen

In 2o18, Harvard's Avi Loeb suggested that 'Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft.

It was first thought to be a comet. However, 'Oumuamua “is cigar-shaped, measuring about 200 metres in length (650 feet) and 34 metres wide (114 feet), and rotates once every seven hours. It was also found to be accelerating instead of slowing down—a discovery that was difficult to explain.”

Now, “a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has concluded 'Oumuamua has a ‘purely natural origin,’ and that a host of natural phenomena can explain it.”

Sometimes, scientists view of the universe might be wrong. More and more space signals have turn to be false.

Almost all signals caused by interstellar signals have been false.


Source:

Osborne, Hannah. 2019. First Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Probably Isn't an Alien Spacecraft, Scientists Conclude. Newsweek (1 July).

How Dead Aliens Could Help Save Humanity

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Joel Kontinen

It seems that some researchers cannot get away from science fiction and its quest for the mastery of all of space. An article from Space.com entails a story of how we could use humanity’s quest with nuclear power and use it to say where our neighbours would we doing just the same thing.

“Humanity appears to be going down a dangerous path. We've developed weapons powerful enough to off ourselves many times over, for example, and we've been altering Earth's climate for decades without much regard for the serious consequences.”

“Similar behaviour may have led to the demise of advanced alien races around the galaxy, said Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard's astronomy department.”

“So, the hunt for ET should be wide-ranging enough to spy artifacts left behind by vanished civilizations, he added — evidence such as burned-up planetary surfaces and products of nuclear war swirling in an alien world's air.”

“Avi Loeb co-authored a paper recently suggesting that 'Oumuamua, the first confirmed interstellar object ever spotted in our solar system, might be an alien spacecraft.

The consensus view is that 'Oumuamua is a cometary body. But it's important not to dismiss the spacecraft idea out of hand, Loeb stressed.”

There is a big question with this. Do we really believe that space aliens exist or all they just imaginations that space aliens speculators use?

All attempts to listen to listen alien sounds have turned out to be false. For instance, an interstellar cloud destroys belief in aliens and all subsequent attempts have been futile.

New Scientist has said that aliens are more likely than God.

But only if we a priori rule out the God who in the beginning created everything.

Life cannot create itself.

Source:

Wall, Mike. 2019. How Dead Aliens Could Help Save Humanity. Space.com (24 May).