What Was Oumuamua?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Natural Sciences, Physics, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What was that strange rock that passed through our solar system in 2017?

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0:00.0	Hey Daniel, do you ever think about what it would be like if we were visited by aliens?
0:10.7	Oh my god, I think about that all the time.
0:13.2	Do you really?
0:14.2	What do you think would happen?
0:15.2	Well, in my imagination, it always starts the same way.
0:17.6	There's some sleepy guy in front of a terminal somewhere which starts to blink and then
0:22.0	annoy him and wake him up and he looks at him and he regrubs his face and he goes,
0:25.5	hmm, that's weird.
0:27.5	Isn't that what happens in every single science fiction movie ever?
0:32.1	Yeah, exactly.
0:34.1	And the cool thing is that it's actually happened a few times in real life.
0:37.7	Yeah, that's right.
0:38.3	Didn't it happen just last year?
0:39.9	Yeah, it happened last year and also happened in the 70s when we got a weird signal from
0:43.9	space called the Wow signal.
0:45.9	So sometimes we do see weird things coming out of this from space.
0:50.2	But it happened as recently as last year.
0:53.0	Yeah, that's right.
0:53.8	Last year.
0:54.6	Was it aliens?
0:55.5	We still don't know.
0:57.0	We do know that it was weird.
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