Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua
I guess we should be thankful Donald Trump is creating the Space Force, because it looks like the aliens are coming!
No I’m not talking about the rapist, drug dealing, Satan worshiping brown people from south of the border. I’m taking actual aliens!
Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious space object was observed tumbling past the sun in late 2017. Given its high speed and its unusual trajectory, the reddish, stadium-sized whatever-it-is had clearly come from outside our solar system. But its flattened, elongated shape and the way it accelerated on its way through the solar system set it apart from conventional asteroids and comets.
Now a pair of Harvard researchers are raising the possibility that Oumuamua is an alien spacecraft. As they say in a paper to be published Nov. 12 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the object “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.”
I’m sure the sanctuary loving Democrats will just welcome our new alien overlords with open arms.