{"id":8872,"date":"2017-12-17T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2017-12-25T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T20:30:06","slug":"8872-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/17\/8872-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Penis-shaped Space Rock Befuddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/12\/yuri-milner-oumuamua-interstellar-asteroid\/547985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Atlantic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology<\/h1>\n<p>Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock &#8216;Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them\u2014and they may get the results within days.<\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a title=\"Marina Koren\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/marina-koren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omni-click=\"inherit\">MARINA KOREN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/mt\/2017\/12\/imageedit_2_4593196455\/lead_960.jpg?1512996129\" alt=\"An artist\u2019s impression of the interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua\" width=\"480\" \/><span class=\"caption\"><em>An artist\u2019s impression of the interstellar asteroid &#8216;Oumuamua<\/em><\/span><span class=\"credit\"><em>ESO \/ M. Kornmesser<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The email about \u201ca most peculiar object\u201d in the solar system arrived in Yuri Milner\u2019s inbox last week.<\/p>\n<p>Milner, the Russian billionaire behind Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, had already heard about the peculiar object. \u2018Oumuamua barreled into view in October, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/11\/interstellar-space-rock\/546371\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-omni-click=\"r'article',r'link',r'0',r'547985'\">first interstellar object<\/a>\u00a0seen in our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers around the world chased after the mysterious space rock with their telescopes, collecting as much data as they could as it sped away. Their observations revealed a truly unusual object with puzzling properties. Scientists have long predicted an interstellar visitor would someday coast into our corner of the universe, but not something like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I study this object, the more unusual it appears, making me wonder whether it might be an artificially made probe which was sent by an alien civilization,\u201d Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard\u2019s astronomy department and one of Milner\u2019s advisers on Breakthrough Listen, wrote in the email to Milner.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/12\/yuri-milner-oumuamua-interstellar-asteroid\/547985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock &#8216;Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them\u2014and they may get the results within days. by\u00a0MARINA KOREN An artist\u2019s impression of the interstellar asteroid &#8216;OumuamuaESO \/ M. 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