As we here in America spend today deciding which knuckleheads will be our new guides down the path of impending doom, another little tidbit of news has been floating around, namely that Oumuamua, the cigar-shaped asteroid that flew through our solar system few months ago, may in fact be an alien probe. The object has been baffling scientists. Mainly because it doesn’t conform to established information about asteroids or comets, looking and behaving quite oddly. But is it alien, or just something we haven’t seen before?
It does seem to be quite a leap of faith to think that this may be an extraterrestrial probe of some kind. The universe, as far as we know, is infinite. And it makes sense that we would have very little information regarding anything originating outside of out little speck of space. It looks funny, and acts differently than other objects we’ve detected. But in all likelihood, this is just a form of space debris we don’t yet understand. Maybe if it had writing on it. Or if it were transmitting some sort of message or signal. Or if it shown any evidence of being anything more than a cigar-shaped rock, I’d be more open-minded. But sadly, this is probably not alien made.
