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Using a magnet seems like not a top 5 idea someone would have.
Say you find the asteroid on bottom of ocean. What sort of hoisting apparatus do you propose we use to bring it ashore?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using a magnet seems like not a top 5 idea someone would have.
Say you find the asteroid on bottom of ocean. What sort of hoisting apparatus do you propose we use to bring it ashore?
Can the title be revised to something like "Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech that Crashed in the Pacific Ocean"? Current phrasing makes it seem like the professor crashed into the ocean.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using a magnet seems like not a top 5 idea someone would have.
Say you find the asteroid on bottom of ocean. What sort of hoisting apparatus do you propose we use to bring it ashore?
The title is a little silly. It’s from outside our solar system, but there’s zero evidence suggesting it’s technological or made by aliens. It’s just a meteor that was going really fast, and it was made of something that was sturdy enough not to break up too much.
Alien doesn’t mean “alien life form”. It means “not from here”.
Can the title be revised to something like "Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech that Crashed in the Pacific Ocean"? Current phrasing makes it seem like the professor crashed into the ocean.
well, to be an asshole: The usage of “that” as opposed to “who” is the key there in English taught before the 2000s. Now of course, the usage of the pronoun who is dead, and that is used everywhere because people are objects in English now.
Maybe it's like that TV series, Debris ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris_(TV_series)
However, if anyone out there likes this kind of science fiction, I must highly recommend the 2019 series "Project Blue Book" starring the superb Aidan Gillen (GoT fame) playing the character of J. Allen Hynek.
Unfortunately, this amazing series was canceled after only two seasons, likely due to poor timing, since it was showing during the chaos and uncertainty at the height of the pandemic. But every episode is well written and the acting, for the most part, is really good. Check it out.
One of the things I like most about the Project Blue Book series, is how they try to recreate the 1950s-1960s aesthetic, somewhat following in the footsteps of what "Mad Men" sought to achieve in terms of recreating a bygone era.
To not bury the lead: His team studied data the government made available from military missile tracking systems, which conveniently also false-positives on asteroids. There was one in 2014 which slammed into the Pacific Ocean at a speed at least twice that of the speed stars around us move relative to the sun, which makes it likely to be extra-solar. Based on that speed & how much burned upon entry, they concluded i…
Isn't it sort of funny that they think the asteroid might be some new material, or at least something tougher than iron, yet they are planning to use a magnet to pull up pieces? What happens if it's non-ferrous...
"There's a chance its not iron but something new!"
"What chance is that?"
"Its inverse to the chance we told our funders, who gave us millions to collect it with a magnet, that it was iron."
"So its pretty guaranteed its iron"
"Yup".
"Aren't your funders concerned you are saying it could be something different than iron?"
"You see the name of the university and a few corporations on the ship? Would you be talking to us if we were just getting a run of the mill iron metorite?"
Reconstructing what the article appears to be saying: 1. a catalog of government sensor data on meteorite strikes was discovered 2. based on the data, those strikes that could have originate outside of the solar system were gathered 3. one hit in particular appears to be harder than iron based on its speed and loss Then: > Despite the government releasing limited data due to national security concerns - he had discov…
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190407224S/abstra... The payload: " Based on the CNEOS catalog of bolide events, we identify the ∼0.45m meteor detected at 2014-01-08 17:05:34 UTC as originating from an unbound hyperbolic orbit with 99.999\% confidence. The U.S. Department of Defense has since verified that "the velocity estimate reported to NASA is sufficiently accurate to indicate an interstellar trajecto…