Anonymous ID: ea2a82 Nov. 2, 2018, 9:17 p.m. No.3709769   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9794 >>9810

>>3709733

I agree, see this part of the article:

 

โ€œThis opportunity establishes a potential foundation for a new frontier of space archaeology, namely the study of relics from past civilizations in space,โ€ Loeb wrote. โ€œFinding evidence for space junk of artificial origin would provide an affirmative answer to the age-old question โ€˜Are we alone?โ€™. This would have a dramatic impact on our culture and add a new cosmic perspective to the significance of human activity.โ€

 

On the other hand, as Loeb told Universe Today, โ€˜Oumuamua could be an active piece of alien technology that came to explore our Solar System, the same way we hope to explore Alpha Centauri using Starshot and similar technologies: (pic)

 

โ€œThe alternative is to imagine that Oumuamua was on a reconnaissance mission. The reason I contemplate the reconnaissance possibility is that the assumption thatOumumua followed a random orbit requires the production of ~10^{15} such objects per star in our galaxy. This abundance is up to a hundred million times more than expected from the Solar System, based on a calculation that we did back in 2009. A surprisingly high overabundance, unless `Oumuamua is a targeted probe on a reconnaissance mission and not a member of a random population of objects.โ€

 

https://www.universetoday.com/140391/could-oumuamua-be-an-extra-terrestrial-solar-sail/