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If there is ever a credible scientific claim of extraterrestial contact, it will look an awful lot like this, cautious but exceptionally curious. @sciam/1067916095829536768?s=19Permalink On twitter.com
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The interstellar object that recently visited the solar system is odd in shape, relative motion, and acceleration pattern.Permalink On twitter.com
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It moves like a beacon or buoy in the local interstellar neighborhood rather than an object spontaneously ejected from one of our neighboring stars.Permalink On twitter.com
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And, this article claims, it accelerated as if an artificial object not a comet.Permalink On twitter.com
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The argument is a great display of what can and can't be gleaned from visual measurements of an object too far away to be resolved clearly.Permalink On twitter.com
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Now, either some scientists will figure out how to make this a anomaly into a natural phenomenon or technologists will try to chase it down with a probe over the next few decades.Permalink On twitter.com
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Either way, genuinely beautiful mystery. I hope the technical language doesn't stop you from seeing it too.On twitter.com
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