Let's Find Out - Is 'Oumuamua a Starship? | ASMR [space, science, astronomy]

Episode Date: January 25, 2019

'Oumuamua made an orthogonal flyby between the inner planets of our solar system in 2017. It's entry angle and speed point to it's interstellar origin, but it's exit trajectory and acceleration don't appear natural to one Harvard astronomer who thinks this may just be an alien scout ship. Let's weigh the evidence and find out how plausible this really is. Thanks for watching. I've started a podcast to download to listen offline: http://letsfindoutasmr.libsyn.com/ (select videos) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/l... (iTunes) #ASMR #space #aliens My current reading list (for those interested): Richard P. Feynman "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" https://amzn.to/2Ftse3n Carl Jung "The Red Book" https://amzn.to/2TYBkbN Nietzsche "Beyond Good and Evil" https://amzn.to/2DcVyc4 Warren Ashby "Comprehensive History of Western Ethics: What Do We Believe?" https://amzn.to/2T1Let6 Jordan Peterson "Maps of Meaning" https://amzn.to/2FuirKj Carl Jung "Aion" https://amzn.to/2SZ52Ny James J. Walsh "Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries" https://amzn.to/2SWxJe9 Walter Kaufman "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist" https://amzn.to/2MdrTlR Michael O'Mara "The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks" https://amzn.to/2MhjBJW Bryan Magee "The Story of Philosophy: A Concise Introduction to the World's Greatest Thinkers and Their Ideas" https://amzn.to/2SY9Kej ------------------------------------------------------------------ ►socials: •Email................... [e-mail] •Instagram........... @lets_find_out_asmr •Twitter................. @Glycoversi ------------------------------------------------------------------ ►If you'd like to help support the channel: •A small kick-back from your purchases: https://amzn.to/2LnNXd6 •Amazon wishlist: http://a.co/9vUJ8eF •Venmo ......... @RichMcdaniel89 •PayPal ......... https://www.paypal.me/LetsFindOutASMR •Patreon ........ https://www.patreon.com/LetsFindOutASMR •Bitcoin: (A scannable QR code) ........ http://i.imgur.com/wKIsPIB.png (wallet address) ........ 1XPhPoyeqc3Xf1uktCPXCzfdEdi9PA7Xh If you'd like to mail me something (or send Penny a treat): Let's Find Out ASMR (Rich) P.O. Box 1582 Palm City, FL 34991 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ►my ASMR playlists: Space: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuXY66IZixixYf8aE-FOozO1 History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuV3POreugMZyg9XTgxUZgGx Science: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuU3-fEgM4V1T5P8U6l2_p2D Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVojBLpecXuU5kJPgNLyObyNQwyjmxOgy

Guys, we just got visited by aliens. I'm serious, I'm for real, for real on this. About a month ago I did a video about Omuamua and we talked about the possibility of it being an alien craft. We were more so focused on the fact that it swooped in from interstellar space. Now this made me want to go, bust out my 10-year-old copy of physics, The Impossible, by Michi Okaku, and look at the chapter on space travel, spaceship design. And he is an excerpt on solar sails, and I'm not talking about cheap energy. I was reading this article the other day. Let me just...

Solar sales. Yes, this book is essentially him. Michio, Dr. Michi Okaku, famous physicist, discussing what we have the potential to develop. And he discusses a lot of very debatable, I guess, future in technologies. And in a lot of cases, some cases, he debunks them, but in other cases, he proves. that it's just a matter of time before we get the technology to develop things. We suspect future civilization a even slightly, ever so slightly more advanced alien race. This is the book in which I first heard about the Kardashev scale.

Scale by a famous Russian astrophysicist. Helps us I easily identify the level of... energy that a civilization can is capable of harnessing I guess starting with a planetary scale which we're almost that progressively exponentially really to civilizations that are able to develop technology that allows them to harness entire suns solar systems and then beyond that groups of stars, I guess, and then galactic, and ultimately, I guess, a universe. Civilization 5, type 5. I don't know, I forget, but one proposal that may solve.

So he talks about ion and plasma, vasimer, which means variable-specific impulse, magnetoplasma rockets, being one potential... technology to help us get to stop. But he says neither the ion nor or the plasma engine, however, has enough power to actually get us to the star. So actually, sorry, he was talking about inner planetary trips.

But to go way beyond that distance, go to the stars which were thinking Omuamua was, top guys and gals think that Omuoomua They're really certain that it came from interstellar space. So ship to be capable of traveling those distances if this is indeed a starship. So solar sails one proposal that may solve these problems. That would be a lot of fuel, a long time to get there, being able to carry enough fuel on the trip. The solar sail, it exploits the fact that the sun exerts a very steady,

pressure that is sufficient to propel a huge sail through space. So a lot of you guys don't know this, but Einstein actually originally got famous before formulating his theories about specific, special, and then general relativity later. He published a, I think it's the paper that got him the Nobel Prize, ultimately. It wasn't even relativity. It was on the... of the photoelectric effect, which is at these, it was about the nature of light, which makes them very, very much akin to Newton in his interests in physics. The photoelectric effect is essentially the energy that light imparts to objects when it hits it.

and it's crazy that photons let's see are they massless particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation light is visible light what we call light is just a very very small radio waves gamma rays

infrared lights and so a photon is a carrier is a force carrier for the electromagnetic It's at zero rest mass. It always moves at the speed of light in a vacuum. The best way to... physicists on TV talking about waves or particles.

They're actually talking about the photon. And when they try to measure a photon, just like we can measure an atom. Electron is kind of a diffuse cloud. It's not necessarily a small scale. Don't have intuitively tangible properties. They seem to exhibit properties of both waves and definite positions and velocities of particles. So the modern concept of the photon developed gradually by Albert Einstein,

all observations did not. Discussing photon, discussing light as having the properties of a wave, that's represented mathematically, or visually, I guess, by peak. is empirically observed by having pulses. The weaker it is, the shorter the pulses, the quicker it, or the shorter the distance between peaks and the wave and find certain areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. You know, such as visible light being between 500 to 900 in the object. They actually exhibit, they impart a force on it

because they're actually units of energy. And it's crazy to think about that. So that's when you step outside into the sun. You're actually being perfaded by all these photons propelled across 90 million miles of space over eight minutes. And that's why you get a sunburn because the light actually is imparting a force on your body. This photon model of light explains the ability of matter and electromagnetic. magnetic radiation to be in a thermal equilibrium means there's no net flow of heat or thermal energy between the two when they're connected by a path permeable to. The photon model accounts for anomalous observations, including properties of black body radiation.

We're talking about solar sails and what OmoMA might be propelled through interstellar space. by so nonetheless I just wanted to point out that you convey that light

does in fact it might seem like you know just because you're out standing in the sun there's no way

you're going to be physically moved by the sunlight were floating in space given a long enough time and you

stay rotationally stable I guess angularly you had no angular velocity

so that one side of your body was facing the sun at all times, you would actually be propelled back from the sun. Do you only specifically due to the sun's, the force exerted on you by the sun's light. The idea of the solar sail is actually an old one, dating back to the great astronomer Johannes Kepler in his 1611 treatise. five years after the gunpowder plot. It's crazy. Although the physics behind a solar sail is simple enough, progress has been spotty in actually creating a solar sail that can be sent into space. This book was written like 2007, I think, or six.

In 2004, Japanese rocket successfully deployed two small prototype solar... sails into space 2005 the planetary society in Cosmos Studios I think of Carl Sagan fame and the Russian Academy of Science has launched a Cosmos 1

space sail from a submarine in the Barrens Sea no but the rocket held in it didn't reach orbit see what else it's that to have a truly solar sail you would have to have it a hundred

of miles wide, constructed entirely in outer space, thousands of powerful laser beams on the moon, each capable of firing continuously for years or even decades. In one estimate, this would be laser technology in conjunction to get the initial impulse of the solar sail. You would use lasers because they're so direct and so, um, netherly. arrow, you would fire them to give the initial momentum and velocity to the spaceship. From then, once they got out of the lasers range, even though that would be ideally very, very far, they could then use the sun's light to propel them, to propel, to perpetuate their momentum onto the next solar system necessary to fire lasers that have light sail as fast as half the speed of light

it would take such a solar sail only eight years or so to reach nearby stars the advantage of such a propulsion system would be off the shelf of technology no new laws of physics would have to be discovered to create such a sale but the main problems are economical and technical so we can use it using we can create it using current technology, but the actual production, the scale of such an engineering production would be so vast that it would take a lot of cooperation currently into focus and obviously a reason to make to construct such a large. So the possibility. Let's read this article now. This being curious in the same vein as Carl Sagan. of especially wild speculation, but I do love entertaining the ideas. It's fun. It's productive to me. It's stimulating to the imagination. And this headline was that the head of Harvard's astronomy department

says that what others are afraid to say about Omuuma could be one of the greatest discoveries in human history. I'm inclined to believe someone. when they're speculating, more so when they're speculating about areas in their particular field of expertise and discoveries of 2018. What if it's, it's actually just a remnant that just happened to be set passing trajectory in our solar system. So this guy says, his name's Abraham Loeb. I guess he goes by Avi. Avi Loeb says, I don't care what people say. It doesn't matter to me. I say what I think if the broad public takes an interest in what I say, concern but an indirect result.

So he's a man of science. Science isn't like politics, it's not based. So he's 56, just to qualify his credentials. Study physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the Israel Defense Forces Telapiet. Recruits who demonstrated outstanding academic ability, Freeman Dyson, famous physicist, and the late astrophysicist John Bacall admitted Loeb to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton of famous residents of Einstein and Oppenheimer.

In 2012, time named Loeb, one of the 25 most influential people in the field of space. he has won prizes written books published 700 articles in the world's leading scientific journals October Loeb World student Shmul Bialbiali also Israeli published an article in the

scientific in the scientific outlet the astrophysical journal letters which seriously raised the possibility that in this is the good part this is the crux that in intelligent

species of aliens had sent. This spaceship was called. It's the first observed interstellar object. Don't know it's a comet meteor, intelligently designed spacecraft. Originated outside of our solar system. So the first interstellar guess, guessed in the direction of Vega, the brightest star in the Lira constellation, which is 26 light years from us and actually the star from which the protagonist, played by Jody Foster in the movie Contact in Carl Siggins' book, Cosmos,

reached, heard the extraterrestrial signal. Umu-moo was actually discovered by a Canadian astronomer Robert Wyrick using the Panstar's telescope at the Halle-Halikala Observatory in Hawaii discovered October 19th, 2017, suspiciously close to Earth, about 85 times further away. It's orbiting the sun like this. I guess the flattening nature.

Lowe just justifying his publicizing of his opinion that it might be actual intelligently designed. He says, as children, of course, if you're wrong, and speculation is not, he doesn't want to, you know, many academics are worried about their reputation being damaged for speculating too much, veering too far away from the facts. His defense is, you know, as children, we ask ourselves about the world and we allow ourselves to make. A scientist, you're supposed to enjoy the privilege of being allowed to perpetuate your childhood in that sense. So I don't worry about the ego. I worry about uncovering the truth, which is so cool, especially after you get tenure, which means that hard to be fired. You have a pretty much permanent position at a university,

which means permanent income, permanent access to resources. subjected to observation but not long enough. You know, there wasn't enough data collected on it. You didn't see a trail of gas or dust that they would expect. But the object rotated on its axis for eight hours. Light reflection is constant. It means that its length is at least ten times greater than its thickness. One's that it's the shape of a cigar,

and the other is that it's the shape of a pancake. The name observers who examine Oumuumu's light variation reached the conclusion that if it receives a lot of gravitational pushes during the voyage, which is reasonable because it spent a lot of time in interstellar space, its shape is pancake flat. Another issue, well, about it being from Vega is the fact that at its speed it would have taken half a million years to get to hear from there. And in that time, the position of Vega wouldn't have been there. when it originated in that spot.

You average the velocities of all the stars in the region. You get a system that's called the local standard of rest. Humuomu was at rest relative to that system. It didn't come to us. It waited in place like a buoy in the surface of the ocean until the ship of our solar system ran into it. The galaxy, you can imagine. The galaxy.

Crazy that this thing was, wasn't really keeping up, you know, it's almost like being in a lazy river, keeping up, it was somehow staying relatively stationary while the other stars were orbiting continually around the galaxy last June from the Hubble Space Telescope. It showed accelerated during its visit to our solar system, and this was an acceleration. As we all know, gravity is acceleration, gravity of Earth, Sun, But this acceleration on the spacecraft wasn't explicable due to just our sun's gravity, gravitational force on it. It's due as they near the sun and get heated up. No gas scene being emitted.

If it wasn't a common outgassing, what for? It's previously here where Loeb enters the picture. The hypothesis I could think of, he says, is a push or radiation pressure. For that to work, the object would have to be very thin, less than a millimeter thick. In other words, a type of pancake. A space telescope, in addition, found no heat emission from the object, which means that it is less than 10, it's at least 10 times, more reflective than a typical comet. What we have then is a thin, flat, shiny object.

So then he says, I arrived at the idea of a solar sail. Solar sail is a, like we said, a spaceship that uses photons for acceleration, and it stays stationary relative to the sun with just one side facing the sun at all times. That one side propels it in a overall specific vector direction. So Evie definitely knows a thing or two about solar sails. in 2016, the physicist and venture capitalist Yuri Milner, together with Stephen Hawking, and Mark Zuckerberg and others,

established breakthrough star shot. In this, you know, to accelerate solar sails to one-fifth the speed of light. This is so cool. Accelerate a spacecraft to one-fifth the speed of light, in order to explore the neighboring solar system of the Centauri,

which is four light years away from us. Loewa's appointed the project's scientific director. The first question we asked is whether a sail like Omoa could survive billions of years in the Milky Way and we discovered that it could being hit by interstellar dust or gas to calculate the acceleration of a solar sail and a way of knowing whether it's active,

inactive engine or technology or if it's passably floating in space, subject to the gravitational forces, the whole population of similar objects that were launched randomly. The fact that we discovered it means that its creators launched a quadrillion of probes like it to every star in the Milky Way. Of course, the randomness is significantly reduced

if we assume Oumuua was a reconnaissance mission. Now this is, like I said, really close to us. Definitely close enough to observe. It passed so close to our inner solar system. Really specific, specific to be a coincidence. You know, I'm a probability. A probabilistic way, you know. They couldn't have necessarily known, well, they couldn't have known unless they made,

if it was aliens, they made another pass more recently. because we weren't projecting signals at all into outer space any artificial man-made signals years ago, you know. It's an alien life form, it's a fishing expedition, a message, and I'll put this next part, comes down to. This is so fascinating, which, you know, is what the Voyager spacecraft is from us as well. And that's why he ties it back into what he's doing with Mark Zuckerberg and crew, with with this project called Breakthrough Star Shot. Our goal is to accelerate solar sales to one-fifth the speed of light so they can reach Alpha Centaur in 20 years, which is about four light years away from us.

And he says, I'm 56, the other guy's 57 he's working with. That's being we'll be able to see the pictures in our, so I guess it'll be 20 years to get there and then four years to return. to return the pictures by light speed. I guess they would have to... energy in a specific laser to be able to send the data back to us. That's so fascinating, though, man. Branch out in the space and...

I think we need that impulse of exploration to fulfill our desire to understand the universe more, you know? We need to be exploring ourselves, but it will, like anything, you know, if you're left alone too long, you have a skewed perspective of who you are as a person because we're social animals at heart and data sources from multiple as many sources as possible. I've had truth, sources that align and rather than diverge. and the more sources that you can gather to verify a point of observation or speculation, the more likely it is to be real and true. And so I think it be such a profound experience that in relation to another species of sentient beings,

as far as future technological speculation, we're going to be building more telescope. to be able to, in the future, in the recent, in the near future, you're going to be building the L-S-S-T telescope. It will be far more sensitive than the Pan Stars telescope that identified Omu-Mu. See many more objects, hopefully, that have originated from interstellar space and defined and be able to more accurately define as being intelligently designed.

The articles speculating about how aliens would perceive us, how we would perceive aliens. Radio signals broadcast during World War II would not make us look extremely intelligent. I'll put this article, it's by arets.com, h-a-a-a-R-E-T-Z dot com, and I'll also link Rondebe with Rama in the comment section because he, He's now talking about if we develop more sophisticated detection sensors on our satellites to be able to detect future anomalies from interstellar space especially, then perhaps we'll even be able to gather a spacecraft to go rendezvous with it in its orbit or its trajectory in time.

to really probe it. In the book, Randevee with Ramos, Arthur C. Clarke was just brilliant in his... It's set up like an exploration, you know, really just more of an object. It was like a mile, it was miles long, um, miles wide. And so it had its, the ability to have its own ecosystem inside it, especially when it was revivified with light from a close approximation to a close flyby to any star stars or other light sources i guess Arthur c clark designed it to be a pretty ingenious way to go around the galaxy and obviously be passive enough to observe forming on planets if the life on the planets isn't advanced enough to be able to construct a

spaceship to go out and rendezvous with it. But if they are, it was so sophisticated, this cylinder that it was able to accommodate, and even annihilation kind of did quickly a dash that had went to explore it, I guess in an attempt to essentially learn as much as they could from the humans in the book. These creatures that weren't quite living, but weren't quite mechanical, very sophisticated, advanced, benevolent, benign, inquisitive technology, android species, things. And the whole book is a handful of humans exploring the inside of the ship. And then the ship goes on, and I think it gives some of the humans enough time to leave and go back to Earth if they want to.

But then some, I think, maybe get unwittingly trapped in it. But it ends up being so, I don't know, so intriguing, so interesting that they're okay in some senses. Staying within it and actually having progeny and developing, procreating, raising entire families as they go around the galaxy. and then being put in stasis in between trips, in between stars. Of course, all the by which the interior of this, of this interstellar world, elucidated in beautiful prose and articulation and scientific understanding, way that's very technical yet artistic.

So the book's a great rube, or freed, honestly, I would highly recommend reading it to any of you guys, especially now that we got truth being even stranger than fiction, possibly. So let's see where this article. To Enrico Fermi's paradox, where is everybody? His replies that they're all dead. Definitely most of them are. Our approach should be an archaeological one. In the same way that we dig around the ground, I guess I put my, I traded it in.

Those two preemptive in doing that, but thinks we should approach it in that way. And it might be a relic of a very, very distant, faraway civilization somewhere else in our galaxy. So it isn't easier and therefore more scientific to assume that we're alone until it's proved otherwise. And this guy says, no, that's just being errone. arrogant, assuming that we're alone. My premise is, he says, is cosmic modesty. Today, thanks to the Kepler Space Telescope, we know that there are more planets like Earth than there are grains of sand on all the shores of the seas. Now Jesus has imagined there's a king who manages to seize control of a piece of another country in battle

in a horrific battle, then thinks of himself as a great, omnipotent ruler. Then imagine he seizes control of the entire world. It would be like an ant that has wrapped its feelers around one grain of sand. Seashore, it's meaningless. It's, I assume we're not the only ants on the shore. It says, uh, your locutor here is saying, that's just speculation, though. You don't know that, uh, that there's other ants, so to speak for certain. And he says, well, the search for terrestrial extracrestrial life is not speculation.

It's a lot less speculative than the assumption that there's dark matter. Invisible matter that constitutes 85% of the material universe. And that's actually something I want to do a video on as well. He goes on to justify why there might be life on Earth. And therefore, why? Umuamua. There are a lot of civilizations more developed than ours that were liquidated or that liquidated themselves.

That's not a good sign for us. He says it will be an excellent sign. It will give us second thoughts about what we're doing here and now so that we won't share the same fate. Port ourselves much more decently and less militantly with one another. To cooperate, to prevent climate change and settle in space

that should lead to a good place. The basic question is whether people are good. I believe they are, as soon as it becomes clear, that there really have been many civilizations that have become extinct. I believe that that will be sufficient for people to learn the lesson. Discover remnants of advanced technologies. They will prove to us that we are only at the start of the road.

And then if we don't continue down that road, we will miss a great deal of what there is to see and experience. Imagine if cavemen had been shot about this special rock. Now imagine Omuamua is the iPhone. And we are the cavemen, bearing himself to other scientists. Who might take the really conservative? No, it's just a rock approach. You might ask him, where do you come off, claiming it's not a rock? clearly he doesn't think

is simply a dead um a dead object floating from interstellar space that just coincidentally happen to closely pass terrestrial neighborhood very very cool

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