When the strange object in the shape of a fertilizer called Oumuamua moved through our solar system in 2017 it was a real moment for astronauts around the globe. The object seemed to come from somewhere other than our system, so it was the first intersex visitor that man had ever seen. He went in, went around our sun, and returned into space. But what was it? Theories have shifted back and forth between the rock as an asteroid, comet, or some hybrid of the two, but there are a few select researchers who are not ready to throw out that it is a thing he was a stranger.
Harvard professor Avi Loeb made a name for himself early in Oumuamua’s study by standing firm in his belief that the long, narrow object could be some kind of alien probe or perhaps a piece of alien space waste. . His claims have been largely rejected by his peers, but the years that have passed since Oumuamua came and left are not Loeb’s stand, and he has now published a book where he explain the evidence that supports his theories.
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In an interview with Leas, Loeb hits the main points of his argument. The interview was definitely worth a look, with Loeb doing a great job boiling down all the data into something we can all digest. In short, much of what remains unexplained about Oumuamua also happens to be the best evidence that it was not just a rock or an ice brick.
The biggest mystery in the Oumuamua story is why it seemed to accelerate as it left our solar system. Normally, an asteroid or other natural space debris would orbit the sun rapidly and then slow down as it went away. This is due to the effect of the sun’s gravity on it as it moves away. Oumuamua did not do this. Instead, he gained speed, which bothered researchers.
Some have suggested that it may have been a marriage of ice and rock and that whichever side of the spinning material was facing the sun was heating up enough to melt the ice, and the gases that works like a jet to push it forward.
But if we assume for a moment that the object has an alien origin, the question is what kind of alien thing it is. Loeb suggests a few possibilities, including Oumuamua being a type of relay spacecraft or being used in conjunction with many others like that to create a navigation grid in space. What it has done best, however, is that it is an alien piece of “junk”, similar to an exploratory spaceship similar to our own Voyager probes that other solar systems reach long after they have been launched. to be dead.
The concern about all of this is that we won’t know for sure what it was. It is long gone and, as our technology does not want to monitor it at such a long distance, the data collected when it was short in our system is all that is needed let’s move on.
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Mike Wehner has been reporting on technology and video games for the past decade, covering breaking news and trends in VR, wearables, smartphones, and the future of tech. Mike was most recently a Tech Editor at The Daily Dot, and has appeared in USA Today, Time.com, and in countless web and print outlets. His love of narrating only second place on his game thesis.