[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42053634"]Oumuamua [/URL]appears (a) to be an interstellar visitor and (b) elongated by a factor of at least 10:1

I think it's akin to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama"]Rama[/URL]. :cmd:

[QUOTE=xilman;472209][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42053634"]Oumuamua [/URL]appears (a) to be an interstellar visitor and (b) elongated by a factor of at least 10:1

I think it's akin to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama"]Rama[/URL]. :cmd:[/QUOTE]

Do they have other data, besides the light curve, to suggest the long elongation? Radar perhaps? If not, I wonder if very large (admittedly very unusually large) differences in albedo on different sides could account for the dramatic changes in brightness.

Something akin to Rama is indeed the preferred answer.

Norm

[QUOTE=xilman;472209][URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42053634"]Oumuamua [/URL]appears (a) to be an interstellar visitor and (b) elongated by a factor of at least 10:1

I think it's akin to [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama"]Rama[/URL]. :cmd:[/QUOTE]
:goodposting:Exactly! ...or Klingons, or Kzin,... :sirrobin:
[QUOTE]Using observations from the Very Large Telescope in Chile, Karen Meech, from the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii, and colleagues determined that the object was about 400m long, rapidly rotating and subject to dramatic changes in brightness.[/QUOTE]
A spindle does seem to be quite unusual for a natural shape. With a possible length-width ratio of 10:1, and an estimated 400m length, an average thickness of 40m is suggested. While that seems a bit cramped for human sub-light interstellar voyages, maybe these are smaller aliens. :alien2:

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl6t8SgZ5Gg[/url]

Bread-squishing fetish video.

The only thing making it nsfw is the swearing and the ironic sexual references in the commentary.

For those not familiar with penguinz0, he serves what I like to call the manchild demographic. Pewdiepie also serves this demographic, reasonably intelligent young to middle-aged men that like their humor to be kind of silly, but also "mature."

Survived an other at work.
Todays job was to clean for small pipes that contained Phosphorustrichloride (PCL3) and Methandichlorphosphon (MPC), booth have heavy reactions with water. (We had observed an MPC fire 1 week ago, the flames were ~2 Meters high and lasted for 15 sec.)

Today the reaction was different, instead of, way safer burning, it created a massive hydrogenchloride cloud. The whole building was evacuated and we had to wear a gasmask. I didn´t expected such an fast and heavy reaction, the whole building was filled with HCL-steam in just a few seconds.
The amount of fluid PCl3 was about 0,3L. One of those train trailers hold about 65000 liters, just think about the size of a possible HCl cloud.

[QUOTE=MisterBitcoin;472818]Survived an other at work...The whole building was evacuated and we had to wear a gasmask...[/QUOTE]
That sounds very serious - glad you came through it OK!

[QUOTE=MisterBitcoin;472818]The amount of fluid PCl3 was about 0,3L. One of those train trailers hold about 65000 liters, just think about the size of a possible HCl cloud.[/QUOTE]
Hollyschmolly! Where can we buy that stuff?

Joking apart, glad to hear that everything is ok! Thanks for sharing that experience.

My hmmmmm, take it how you want to, is that I've suspected Trump might be the anti-Christ, and now he's trying to put the US embassy to Israel in Jerusalem.

I tentatively predict he'll sign a 7-year peace at some point, possibly this Christmas or late January, depending on how a Biblical prophetic year is determined, and then 2024 Christmas is the Rapture.

Not saying I want the Tribulation that would happen in the intervening 7 years if I'm correct, but if anyone here is into Bible prophecy, you know things are getting kinda weird, what with the Syrian war and all the natural disasters going on, plus North Korea toying with the nuclear option.

Things are going from bad to worse, and very quickly.

The world is the most stable and peaceful it has been in its history, even despite what Trump has managed to "accomplish" so far.

The background natural disaster rate is no higher than it has even been in the last n-thousand years, for some n greater than (e.g.) 10.

It did not take long for the expected blowback from Trump's Zionist-demographic-pleasing inanity w.r.to Jerusalem to begin:

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[QUOTE=Dubslow;473414]The world is the most stable and peaceful it has been in its history, even despite what Trump has managed to "accomplish" so far.

The background natural disaster rate is no higher than it has even been in the last n-thousand years, for some n greater than (e.g.) 10.[/QUOTE]

I assume you're trolling, what with North Korea upping its nuclear program and the fact that Russia's been making its own moves.