Looks like the interstellar probe from Star Trek IV. Maybe our reckoning with mother nature and the whales is already on its way.
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The figures are "artist's impressions", which is a polite way of saying "artist's fantasies". We know that 'Oumuamua must be very prolate (elongated) and its rotation period, but little more about its shape and rotation (we do know that it is tumbling). It would be better not to show these drawings that many readers will erroneously interpret as actual photographic images.
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At 50 miles per second it still beats our fastest moving object made by man, NASA’s Juno Probe. We’ll never go interstellar until we learn how to travel at least half the speed of light.
How to move up to 90,000 miles per second?
I doubt that space travel can occur for us for thousands of years to come. I've begun to think that it will be necessary for humans to rid themselves of their fragile bodies and become something like cyborgs. Maybe it is possible. We have a very long way to go and it is most likely not going to happen in time to save our species due to vacillation regarding climate change vs. profit for the 1%.
Never mind me. Humans are fully of surprises so maybe. I think it would take a world wide effort just to mount an expedition to Europa. At this time, I don't believe that we humans are capable of working together towards a common goal like space travel.
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Cooler if we could ramp it up to twice the speed of light - or 3 times!
In any case, ya better have some good brakes.
Or perhaps what we are seeing is a mid-course correction of a ship undergoing a long interstellar journey.
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Seriously. It's path looks like the plot for a gravitational assist from our sun, and it exhibited "non-gravitational acceleration". Sure is intriguing.
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Too slow for intelligent life. Or, maybe they gave huge lifespans
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