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originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: JimOberg
It's interesting until viewed from the side and then it seems obvious its just a rock or a aggregate of rocks.
originally posted by: JimOberg
This is not a spoof or a drill -- this is a genuinely weird-looking form on the asteroid that a US probe just arrived at. I find it extremely interesting.
Whatever it turns out to be, and a natural explanation may well present itself, I hope the openness of the NASA team encourages folks to accept that there isn't any over-arching pre-release alien evidence coverup in force. This would never have gotten out, in that case.
There's a video of Bennu's complete rotation in which this wierdnik appears prominently as something jutting out from the surface.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
a reply to: eriktheawful
Well there is no standard shape for a rock is there ?
Space threads are interesting rock threads not as much.
originally posted by: Blarneystoner
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: Pandaram
ITS A ROCK!! FFS!
Technically by metallurgical composition your car is a rock.
Doesn't mean it is one.
No.. technically a car would be a mineral.
originally posted by: Butterfinger
Asteroids are the worst places for a home, terrible location to raise your kids
originally posted by: JimOberg
Whatever it turns out to be, and a natural explanation may well present itself, I hope the openness of the NASA team encourages folks to accept that there isn't any over-arching pre-release alien evidence coverup in force. This would never have gotten out, in that case.
originally posted by: BigDave-AR
originally posted by: Blarneystoner
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: Pandaram
ITS A ROCK!! FFS!
Technically by metallurgical composition your car is a rock.
Doesn't mean it is one.
No.. technically a car would be a mineral.
And all rocks are minerals..... Just a more generic term.
Asteroids come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are solid bodies, while others are smaller piles of rubble bound together by gravity.
originally posted by: Blarneystoner
originally posted by: BigDave-AR
originally posted by: Blarneystoner
originally posted by: Lumenari
originally posted by: Pandaram
ITS A ROCK!! FFS!
Technically by metallurgical composition your car is a rock.
Doesn't mean it is one.
No.. technically a car would be a mineral.
And all rocks are minerals..... Just a more generic term.
Since we're nit picking... A rock is a naturally occurring composite of two or more minerals. A car would not be naturally occurring. However, a man made synthetic mineral is still a mineral....
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: SecretKnowledge
Asteroids come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are solid bodies, while others are smaller piles of rubble bound together by gravity.
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Gravity attracts smaller stuff to the surface.