In related news…holy everlovin’ fck! From CNN:
The object, nicknamed ‘Oumuamua, meaning “a messenger that reaches out from the distant past” in Hawaiian, was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Since its discovery, scientists have been at odds to explain its unusual features and precise origins, with researchers first calling it a comet and then an asteroid before finally deeming it the first of its kind: a new class of “interstellar objects.” A new paper by researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics raises the possibility that the elongated dark-red object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and traveling at speeds of 196,000 mph, might have an “artificial origin.”
“‘Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization,” they wrote in the paper, which has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The president* is so worried about a few hundred shoeless refugees who are still hundreds of miles from the Texas border, and, meanwhile, some three-headed toddler with eight-foot antennae from Andromeda is sending its toy drone into our solar system so he could laugh at us over lunch in the cafeteria at Kelinda-Rojan Memorial Junior High? I’m not sure we’re keeping our eyes on the ball here.
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