Harvard astronomers suggest cigar shaped object is alien spacecraft.

[triron]

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/health/oumuamua-alien-probe-harvard-intl/index.html?utm_term=image&utm_content=2018-11-06T11%3A26%3A04&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN

[BootinUp]

1. Come on. Nt

[TeamPooka]

2. Rama's coming. nt

[Dave Starsky]

24. That's the first thing I thought of when I heard about this.

I loved those books.

[manor321]

3. No

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-oumuamua-an-interstellar-spaceship-im-still-going-with-no

[Judi Lynn]

4. It must be real if astronomers from Harvard said it, clearly.

They have no reason to lie.

[lpbk2713]

5. Reported back to mother ship ...

"There's no intelligent life on this planet."

[Bradshaw3]

6. The authors put that line in at the end as a lark

Course the media ran with it.

[blogslut]

7. Uncle Neil explains:

[Polybius]

8. While that would be great, I doubt it

It’s just floating around going nowhere.

[Loki Liesmith]

9. Ugh science writers...They put forward a scenario

In which a spacecraft could explain it. So yeah it could be aliens. But even the authors would say that’s an unlikely scenario.

[seltzerwater]

10. Thanos

I hate that guy.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

11. Harvard scientists have been smoking too many cigar-shaped blunts!!

[sorcrow]

12. Didn't Freud say....

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?

Regards,
Crow

[Separation]

13. The smartass in me

Is unsuccessfully bubbling down a Bill Clinton joke.

[RandiFan1290]

17. Oh, a Clinton joke?

Must be some really fresh material. Let's hear your 'joke'

[Separation]

18. Do you really want to hear it?

Ok, but only because you asked nicely and not in any sort of passive aggressive way.

So the previous poster said of Freud, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

And I thought to myself, "Tell that to Bill Clinton."


Thank you, thank you. I'll be here till I'm banned. Please dont forget to tip your waiters and waitresses, preferably in cash.

After edit: The point is that Sigmund Freud supposedly saw sexual references in everything. If you are not familiar with the ideas of Freud, or with the associations people have with Freud, the quote doesn't mean much.

[RandiFan1290]

19. Wow, such fresh material, comrade

[Separation]

20. Lmao

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[ellie]

14. It looks like a rock

but then I didn't attend Harvard.

[UniteFightBack]

15. Star Trek...The Doomsday Machine......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nt

[Old Vet]

22. Didnt Spock figure this out years ago..........

[Achilleaze]

16. .

[DFW]

21. And I suggest...........

....that Harvard Astronomers should pay a little more attention to what kind of leaves are in the cigars THEY are smoking.

Their suggestions might be a little more down to earth next time..........

[SidDithers]

23. No, they didn't...nt

Sid