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Originally Posted by Crowe
It doesn't make much sense for the solar sail comparison. They said this object was tumbling through space, and why would a solar sail be tumbling in such manner? If an object that large was getting towed by a solar sail, the sail would have been detected.
It's an odd object, I'll give them that, 10x as long as it is wide. It does makes sense for a ship to be tumbling, that creates centrifugal force that can simulate gravity.
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The solar sail hypothesis didn't make much sense to me, either. If we have telescopes and instruments that can determine a piece of manmade space junk such as a rocket stage from an asteroid, something as large as a solar sail could have been detected even at the distance Oumuamua was from Earth. As much as some people such as Harvard jew Avi Loeb would like to believe it's an ancient, defunct alien probe, chances are high of it being a natural object, just one we've never encountered before. Perhaps we will get a better look at the next interstellar object that wanders into our solar system, which astronomers now think there could be many.