We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird.

[@d14551]

"I don't trust myself because I want it to be true." I think that's a hugely important idea!

[@ponyote]

Possibly the most important idea in science.

[@kristiknight7586]

"Knowing that there are certain things I can't trust myself with because I want them to be true." Wow. 🤯 Setting the bar for adulting.

[@OliviaSNava]

I have the same feeling about the afterlife. I think it's most likely that after death is eternal nothingness, but have such a hard time wrapping my brain around eternal nothingness. My brain constantly tries to make up "reasonable" alternatives. Of course, there's the "heaven, hell, reincarnation, etc.", but those are definitely extremely unlikely, but then there's the unobvious and idk *more likely* but that's not even necessarily true? Lemme explain. Your brain is made of matter, and energy. If there is no soul, nothing more than the physical meat parts of your brain, then it is a finite object and that is all it is, and consciousness is an emergent property from the physical meat parts interacting together. At any given moment, your brain has a state, and if you pause me right now at this state, and then move me halfway across the universe and resume me the time that I was paused I would not have experienced. Now, when you die and your consciousness ends, your brain has one specific state. After your death, there is a non-zero chance that your brain in its exact state at the end of your consciousness reforms in some random asteroid or in a gas giant for just an instant before immediately dissolving. If you repeat this process trillions of times, which is bound to happen if the universe has infinite time, then that will present itself to your consciousness as time passing, and is a form of an afterlife. The question of what exactly you will experience during that moment is unclear to me. My guess is it will be impossibly quick random flashes of existence that don't have any particular meaningful connection to one another. It's also possible that if that were to happen, that you would only exist if and only if there exists some consistent connection between one instance of your brain being formed to the next instance. What that presents itself as is also random, but that's more to say it's a singular random existence rather than a series of flashes of existence. The issue is that all of this text, and any theories I have of the afterlife is me wanting there to be something rather than nothing. Which is to say, I can't trust myself on it because I *want* it to be true.

[@yumeriagirl1231]

And it is exactly why the process of peer review, is Paramount in science.

[@lexaray5]

@@OliviaSNava thank you for sharing your thoughts! This is a delightfully creative idea for an afterlife.

[@elliottmcollins]

Thoughts from Very Distant Places. I'm into it.

[@vlogbrothers]

I mean, not that distant! Surprisingly close, honestly...though also much farther than any of the previous places we have had thoughts from.

[@virrr2178]

+

[@elliottmcollins]

@@vlogbrothers Thoughts from Increasingly Distant Places.

[@TheGirlWhoExists]

+

[@milicakrunic4898]

+

[@arillusine]

This comment is three years into the future from when this video was made and I’m realizing that the telescope he’s talking about is the one we’ve all been so excited about recently. Hoping for some closure on this arc eventually!

[@JJ-rm7jw]

I think you may be referring to the James Webb Space Telescope, and I'm pretty sure Hank was referring to the Giant Magellan Telescope (which is a land-based telescope still under construction in Chile), as it will be much better at discovering new objects than JWST is... JWST is really good at observing things that we already know are there, but not so great at finding new things. The GMT will be much better at finding new things. 🙂

[@the_great_thinker6430]

bill: hey, jeff, we found a life supporting planet. jeff: how do we say hi? bill: LETS THROW A ROCK AT IT.

[@SpottedLabCoat]

Maybe it was a rock with a note tied to it.

[@pantalonesdemuerto7960]

*asteroid slams into earth* We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty…

[@earthling_parth]

LMAO 🤣😂

[@NateandNoahTryLife]

One side of my brain: wow what a well thought out scientific examination The other side: SPACE TURDDDDD

[@MiddleAgedNerd]

See, I did not want to be the only one who said something like this. Never mind that fact that space turd is the very first thing that came to my mind.

[@Absurdist1968]

@@MiddleAgedNerd Come sit by me...

[@Hippopotalust]

+

[@NateandNoahTryLife]

Middle Aged Nerd you are not alone in the turd, nerd!

[@avimohan6594]

+++

[@virrr2178]

this definitely didn't feel 10 minutes long

[@vlogbrothers]

That's my goal!

[@toboshi]

+

[@jonathanowo7584]

Tru dat

[@Rachel-cb2zi]

I didn't even notice the length until it was mentioned.

[@iangrapes6659]

It was a 4 minute video in are hearts

[@DarthSmirnoff]

Oumuamua, I've come to bargain.

[@heatherwanderer777]

My exact thought! lol

[@goober7810]

😂😂😂😂 I cannot put to words how funny this is

[@GeekwithaGrill]

+

[@namitanene3531]

😂😂😂

[@Nerdnotwashere]

+

[@magicdoggo4883]

It's alien's equivalent answer to Elon Musk sending his car randomly into space.

[@dankbeast9013]

Imagine once it shows up to another solar system with life; what they'd be thinking. Especially with the astronaut suit in the seat still🤣

[@Astro80s]

@@dankbeast9013 they be worshiping the car

[@richtigmann1]

I thought is was in dun... I mean Mars orbit

[@zachflynn65]

He kinda of knows where it is

[@mensafordummies6370]

@@Astro80s Nope, they be laughing at how primitive it is compared to their forms of transportation.

[@jessicaonymous4352]

Most horrifying phrase to a scientist: "off by like... Orders of magnitude"

[@TaylorSmith-fz7qn]

Hahaha, so true!

[@KerbalRocketry]

depends, there are cases you expect to be off by a few magnitude simply because its highly unpredictable and can only really predict the average, and othertimes you get something like this...

[@SoulControlla99]

Or, "You were using imperial measurements? Oops."

[@TaylorSmith-fz7qn]

@@SoulControlla99 Someone lost a whole rocket that way. You'll have to forgive me for not remembering specifics here, but yeah, that was a big oops! Can't figure out why my home country hasn't adopted metric yet. Political, I know, but that's a really big excuse in my opinion. Gotta love the Carter admin. for at least giving it a shot.

[@techmage89]

Or the most exciting. New discoveries are a likely result of observing something that defies our current understanding so drastically.

[@RangerRuby]

I love it when the Vlogbrothers go over the time limit for educational purposes because it means something good will be explained in the video!

[@Reddragon222]

+

[@GeekwithaGrill]

+

[@katiepatrick6506]

+

[@mmtruooao8377]

+

[@meowlvr]

+

[@brentc6095]

9:02 "That The Universe is Weird". Hmmm, what an interesting sentiment, if only there was a catchy song I could listen to that expounded on that idea more...

[@bambi3845]

Like, that goes into stuff like infinite unbounded sets and hadronising gluon jets? Pfft, no way could anybody make a song out of that.

[@kayisfish]

@@bambi3845 laaaame

[@UmberGryphon]

I'm kinda freaking out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJTanIJ8iNd_fKs

[@ApequH]

And that's what i love most about this (and other science). It's weird

[@Lic021]

@@UmberGryphon what the heck is this all about?

[@nikkigriffin6441]

"I wanna have an event like that. Where we all remember where we were when we heard the news, not the bad news, just the big news." That hit me differently this time around. Up until recently, I didn't have any such stories. I'm too young to have "where I was when I heard 9/11" story. But I live in Nova Scotia, and now I have a "Where I was when I heard about The Shooting". The news of the Shooting completely eclipsed the C-19 news for at least a week. Over the course of the next week, the number of victims just kept rising. This was a tragedy on a scale heretofore unheard of in this country. If the news is big enough to have an accompanying "where I was when I heard the news story", that is the sort of thing that shakes up culture. I'm not eager for an event like that right now. Sorry, this was long, I guess I just needed to thought dump into the void of the internet.

[@Chris-ib5ht]

I see what you mean. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when Stoneman Douglas Highschool was shot up in Florida. I was in the submarine simulation at the World War II museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. I remember exactly which classmates I was with in there and I remember my friend pressing the emergency stop button because she thought it was part of the simulation. I remember that part of the trip because as we were walking out, I turned on my phone, opened instagram and saw a post about the shooting.

[@allynpierson3128]

Three years later, and… yeah. I was at work taking a rushed lunch that became not so rushed when I saw that my (us) governor was on the news locking down the state. What I’m trying to say is, your comment hits hard right now. I’m not ready for another day like that right now.

[@zulioner7880]

"Captain they saw our ship at warp speed" "Goddamn it Jim!"

[@acceptthetruthitwillsetyou2598]

I read it different and it was still funny

[@Aaronian99]

Is 25 km a second warp speed?

[@fiona9891]

@@Aaronian99 Maybe they're just really bad at spaceships.

[@zoellazayce6796]

It's simple, Aliens are sending us a giant weed joint as a friendly greeting

[@sexmachine4571]

Zayce Stark im down to hit a blunt with some aliens in outer space.

[@OneEyedSnakes]

It’s probably shit if they handing out free samples

[@dexth3815]

lmao

[@i_am_an_idiot_but]

I’m DYING LMAOOO

[@Skinrender420]

*marijuana cigarette

[@Naiadryade]

Great video! I love the information. I love the speculation. I love the self-analysis on how you shouldn't speculate (especially publicly) but enjoy doing so anyway.

[@Naiadryade]

Also, I love the interstellar greeting card theory.

[@brittanywetherill472]

Um... anyone else come to this a year and a half late and ask:"why wasn't this all over the news??? How did I miss this? Have there been more?!"

[@sylvy16]

Exactly. This is so cool and no one even talked about it. This shows that news and journalism is not doing its job.

[@prpl_jane]

Yep except I'm just hearing about this 4 years later 😭

[@MrGidyup]

The algorithm just gave it to me today. 4 years later

[@Yixdy]

​@@prpl_jane same dude

[@i8764theKevassitant]

It was decently big news in the science community, mostly because of the speculation but yeah the main news outlets don't care about science. Just buzz stories.

[@darmous9676]

So we have narrowed it down to A) Something we have observed before (a comet) B) Something intelligently made (solar sail) or C) Something we haven't observed before (anything)

[@interycreeper1152]

*anything but what we know

[@aliaskt]

Aliens.

[@torudro8022]

Why didn't we go chase it down

[@kdxkyle]

@@torudro8022 we definitely dont have the technology to do that. Especially on short notice.

[@enderprodigy3167]

@@kdxkyle the entire notion of NASA not having enough notice of something coming into our solar system makes movies like Armageddon more fantasy than science fiction. The folly of man has always been that we think we know more than we do. For instance a turd shaped rock with gaseous debris that accelerates when it's heated sounds very grounded in physics and even cartoons. It shouldn't come as a shock to the science community at all and yet somehow it did. The relevance we should be understanding from this encounter is how truly overmatched we are by interstellar visitors even at velocities slower than we predicted they would enter. The question we should be asking is why aren't we spending more money on preparing counterintuitive measures so that preparation isn't necessary upon a potentially catastrophic event. Isn't that why the U.N. exists? Why don't we have a worldwide program that's soul focus is altering the trajectories of objects or slow them down for study as well as to increase our resources that are finite. If we could get objects that come nearer to us to fracture pieces towards our orbit it might help us advance in many fields. Especially knowing that we still have yet to discover all the elements theorized in the periodic table.

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

All I heard was "Aliens confirmed and intergalactic wars confirmed." Thank you!

[@papertowels3333]

David S. Then your dumb lol

[@AlvaroALSD]

@@papertowels3333 damm bro no sense of humour LOOL

[@rookield8077]

@@papertowels3333 r/wooosh

[@jimmyringz2550]

Space Force😂😂

[@lucascb8446]

@@rookield8077 exactly my thought

[@Vezitos]

It's a Carl.

[@jonathanowo7584]

+ and a + and another + and all of these as well ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[@eris4734]

Hey, I was gonna comment that!

[@saber1epee0]

Vezitos +++

[@charliespinoza1966]

+

[@gitoshrisen7687]

+++++

[@superbubbleaquapower]

"Where were you when you heard about Omuamua?" "Well, Ted, it was two months after it was spotted and I was catching up on vlogbrothers videos to pass the time while cutting my nails." "Vlogbrothers? Who are the vlogbrothers?" "You know, John and Hank Green?" "Who the eff is Hank?"

[@Macdaddy5539]

Poor Hank. Sorry John, think Hank has been making the more compelling videos as of late.

[@FosukeLordOfError]

Who is John?

[@jexx1001]

I'm the opposite lol! DONT EAT GRASS! judging by hanks recent tiktoks... We broke him

[@EpicDayTimeActivity]

It tried using the Earth's WiFi and got a tik tok ad and noped the fucc out of here.

[@Lakupeep]

This comment needs more appreciation

[@myhappygecko2895]

yas@@Lakupeep

[@yourneighbour5738]

Far away somewhere, as oumuamua returns with blurred images of earth at night Alien scientists : " *Interstellar life? What are you, stupid? Those light must be just some kind of natural occurrence!* "

[@greed864]

that while sad would be absolutely hilarious.

[@spookybaker]

“No, it’s just on fire again”

[@middosk5067]

@@spookybaker Hahaha

[@castoru3398]

Actually that's possible. D e e p

[@deephorizon1365]

@@spookybaker bye bye California

[@swifferwetjet1_288]

Probably just a Toyota Corolla

[@Shockguey]

Nah it was a PT Cruiser. Now THAT was a piece of shit.

[@user-erased]

nah it was a Tesla

[@codeblue3910]

Don't be hatin'. ^-

[@karolinen525]

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

[@thirtythreeflavors]

No. No! NO!

[@MajorMandyKitten]

I like the idea of an extraterrestrial species throwing a huge chunk of rock just to go "Hey."

[@GabeMillerMusic]

The editing and mood in this are on point 👌

[@blameitonthedie4321]

+

[@AlwaysAPotterhead]

I agree. Felt documentary like. Kinda like Cosmos maybe?

[@samuelhirn1415]

sounds exactly like one of these fake bs videos

[@ETHRELITE]

what song is playing in the background?

[@anom3778]

@@AlwaysAPotterhead videos like this have already been made about this..

[@austinwild6723]

"Notices Rock is the shape of a piece of poop" Venom: "...Like a Turd, in the Wind."

[@gearshift7174]

No wind in space soo rip

[@JH-zo7rb]

@@gearshift7174 Solar winds man.

[@gearshift7174]

Ok seems legit

[@MrPixxil]

"Like a Turd, in the momentum of Photons."

[@Shawn-in-da-Canyon]

Turds in the wind. All we are is turds in the wind.

[@KruddMan]

I get this weird buzz of optimism when I see how poorly we can perceive objects in space even with the highest end telescopes. It means there's so much more potential to achieve. So much more understanding if only we could see a little clearer.

[@Yeetin_Boomer_Actual]

It goes to show the magnitude and scope of size, and why distance stops being measured in distance but in time.

[@ilovebooks49]

Yes exactly, so do I!

[@jameskyle3466]

@@Yeetin_Boomer_Actual It doesn't though. Light years and parsecs are still measurements of distance.

[@KeanKennedy]

your icon's starey eyes seem to confirm this statement.

[@adamaj74]

Even if we could see better, all we'd confirm is it's the same ol' shit everywhere in the universe anyway; same atoms, molecules, physics, etc.

[@mikehunt5926]

Edgy 9 year olds: sPaCe tUrD Edgy 14 year olds: spACe bLunT

[@fiqo4479]

Im 14 and i saw it as a turd XD im realy imature

[@wj36dj]

Mike Hunt which one are you?

[@seasoned8273]

U mama

[@ryleebrannon7546]

Edgy 14 year olds: space juul

[@Xackory]

The only edgy person here is the person that spams on videos

[@nesquik9579]

It took one good look at earth, and dipped.

[@tulinem99]

Must have snuck a peak at the US

[@georgeofhamilton]

@@tulinem99 mUSt haVe SEeN *T R U M P*

[@limegreenhunk2452]

I would've done the same tbh

[@ananydoneria]

Probably saw the YT Rewind 2018 set xD

[@p_eabean]

"Nope."

[@ChrisKogos]

A giant turd or a giant napkin

[@GeneralSwirly]

or a giant piece of toilet paper for another turd

[@xanderschwartz9864]

Yes

[@saraharroyo3333]

You deserve more likes

[@givememoney8985]

how do i like a comment 2 times

[@kermmitt]

Or a joint

[@ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

I know a guy on that ship.

[@fugluru1714]

Zogg from Betelgeuse same

[@somedudett5880]

Upload.

[@limingde91]

Me too!

[@Megapixel8063]

I thought the Central Galactic Bureaucracy had forbid you from using KZbin. I seriously did a double take when I saw your comment.

[@mobeenkhan824]

Zogg from Betelgeuse When are you going to upload again? Your video's are very anticipated. Were you arrested by the galactic beaurocracy because of your video about mathematics?

[@y0ungstr]

Dude it's Silver Surfer's Surfboard

[@JakeBroe]

Oh no, Galacticus must be on his way then!

[@ianbyrne465]

@@JakeBroe nah, it’s good, he decided to go somewhere else

[@cloud2676]

It’s Tony Stark coming back from titan

[@Swaveyntn]

Its Galactus' joint

[@threeoclockmorning1316]

L

[@warp8119]

Lmao

[@mysk650]

He protecc He attacc But most importantly He run out of snacc

[@sociallyineptspider-man2366]

Too soon

[@MonicaFulmer44]

I'm not saying external source... I am just not NOT saying external source..... BTW Hank your Miranda is showing in this video ;-)

[@vlogbrothers]

Well, the difference being, this is DEFINITELY external :-)

[@brandonhamele2334]

Obviously it's a real big alien who had his lunch wrapped in aluminum foil, crumbled it up into a turd shape in his big gross alien hands, and tossed it.

[@rendal7724]

Brandon Hamele LOL

[@lucysmith6123]

"big gross alien hands" lmao

[@beannicca]

Don't call him gross 😤😤

[@rendal7724]

ZackZack2002 wow I can’t believe Huey Freeman commented here

[@ladydainwinters8564]

I came here Hank, after years and listening to everyone argue different points, to get a more balanced picture. I too had wondered about debri (though I did not think war but trash). I think you did a great job being credible. You didn't answer the question, but reminded me scepticism is good, but hope and excitement drives exploration. Thank you. You're still my credible source.

[@katiekawaii]

"Wait, come back! We have questions!"

[@JTSnook]

Love this

[@Trancedd]

"Haven't you's been listening??? Just take three tokes and buckle up"

[@brokenwave6125]

Interesting how someone can say A. It was going too slow for intersteller travel and B. It chaged its velocity... So theoretically it slowed down before reaching our star system...then on exit started to speed up again. Not a crazy notion.

[@devonmoore16]

It changed in path, not speed

[@brokenwave6125]

@@devonmoore16 Its path changed because its speed changed...

[@eloisanzara237]

You could be on to something.

[@cfv7461]

when i start my flow i STAY IN MOTION

[@goetzvonb123]

@@devonmoore16 yeah sorry Dude but thats exactly how space works.....u change the velocity of an object and it will change its trajectory

[@ChadeGB]

Oi! Aliens! Stop throwing rocks at us!

[@Letgoit2]

Thats only because we typed to many“!!!!!!!!!!!!11111“ which makes u want to throw rocks at a person

[@stammyy2091]

Letgoit2 lol what

[@Letgoit2]

@@stammyy2091 its a internet rule, look them up, but this one basically descripes the amount of “idiot“ a person has in his/hers comment regardless of the matter. Exampel the use of “!“ is a normal sentence. The use of “!!!“ is abit heavy but can be justified and reasonable depending on the reason. The use of “!!!!!!!!“ now were getting silly. The use of “!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111“ pls shoot rockets/throw stones at me!.

[@Delian795]

@@Letgoit2 lol what

[@stammyy2091]

Letgoit2 Im guessing this is an r/wooosh trap

[@narrator69]

It's never aliens,,, until it is.

[@thatonerandomguyontheinter4971]

IS THAT TONY STARK???

[@mxtty5633]

It’s *”TOnY sTAnK”*

[@codename-nai7426]

Oh no hes running out of oxygen

[@phwaifunolaifu9364]

#SaveTonyStark

[@ManimalMoose]

Oh no....oh no

[@ionutlorianpopescu2211]

Haha

[@theunion6024]

The pulse drive went offline. The crew panicked and janeway got them working just before they hit the sun. In fact I’m sure I’ve seen that episode.

[@an1skh4n]

Adam Tib they detected coffee in our solar system

[@Atlessa]

Shit, I remember that episode. Didn't the Voyager get 'seen' by some Earthbound sensors there as well? And the shape of the Voyager (and assuming she is tumbling) fits with the change in apparent brightness, too. ... who knows, who knows.

[@LiquidChamploo]

Just flushed an interstellar visitor 20 minutes ago.

[@thomaschittenden5457]

Hahaha nice

[@alexmarshall7906]

I'm releasing a interstellar visitor right at this moment

[@captainknuckles9599]

The interstellar turd!!!!!! Lol

[@wspkai]

Poop jokes never get old lmao

[@watchbavaria]

Alex Marshall R E L E A S E

[@marthdaeglin]

This is the first video I have seen from your channel. I was super fascinated by Oumuamua and couldn't resist clicking the video as soon as KZbin recommended it to me. Then I saw the yellow books stacked sideways in the middle of your shelf and amazingly enough completely lost focus on the first interstellar object we've ever observed in our solar system. Having the Kodocha books on your shelf is enough to earn my subscription! Also, it took me a while to realize that I recognize you from a Hobbit drinking song video from a while back. Awesome job in that, too!

[@zagradisek8736]

he protect, he attack but most importantly he is left out there without a snack

[@alexchaven9364]

Protecc* Attacc* Snacc* Bacc*

[@theCodyReeder]

I still think its a spent rocket booster.

[@TheRavenCoder]

Rocket boosters are only used to escape gravity wells (like Earth). As such, any spent rocket booster would most likely fall into that gravity well, not escape it's solar system and enter another.

[@theCodyReeder]

@@TheRavenCoder Likely no, but we've flung a few out into interplanetary space and Jupiter is good at flinging out things in weird orbits.

[@wobblysauce]

@@theCodyReeder I was thinking along the lines like Halley's comet... somewhat in an orbitish and just happened to see it this go around.

[@RageNukes]

A human rocket booster or an alien rocket booster? Because it shouldn't be ours, we try to keep track of objects we leave in space.

[@zabba7461]

What would cause the change of velocity then?

[@DeepGamingAI]

No big deal probably just a Tesla

[@CoachRoseus]

hehehe i get it ya boy musk

[@phosphatepod]

hehehe i get it ya boy musk

[@TheGamingParadise22]

hehehe i get it ya boy musk

[@codename-nai7426]

Hehehe i get it ya boy musk

[@august4476]

hehehe i get it ya boy musk

[@Intellectual_Wojak]

aliens where smoking a giant joint and passed it on to humans to make friends

[@3p1cand3rs0n]

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

[@lonestarr1490]

So if we find out some day for sure you can't claim that you said so.

[@mjt1517]

@@lonestarr1490 you missed the second part: "but it was aliens"

[@lonestarr1490]

@@mjt1517 So you mean it is already sure? But still you can't claim that you said so, because - as you said - you didn't.

[@mjt1517]

Lone Starr I didn’t say anything. Not in the original comment, anyway. I’m not the original commenter. You apparently don’t know what she’s quoting. Never mind. 🙂

[@lonestarr1490]

@@mjt1517 Oh, my fault. Haven't had my coffee today so I somehow mistook Trump for a beautiful girl ..

[@hellsonion514]

Yeah, why would an intelligent alien race send some random object to tumble through space, blindly, in the hope of contacting another intelligent species? *cough* voyager *cough*

[@jae1092]

Didn't we do that at one time with a golden record?? Lol nvm that's what voyager was🤦😂 I'm not very good at reading, glad I re read it

[@nallid7357]

@Collin Moore I mean, if we're going to base the intelligence of humans by your comment, then yes, there isn't any intelligence on Earth.

[@gentleEvening]

That was me. Constipated for 12 years, my bad bro

[@EngineeringMystery]

Meme:Stop it... get some help.. Hotel:Trivago

[@ricekrispie7114]

Its good but go to the toilet next time ok?

[@mariusciontu151]

Bro you've got one hell of a buttcrack.

[@sneerfulcone9989]

@@mariusciontu151 go do your job

[@baconman1236]

Omg i.... I ...... I can't i can't 😆😆😆

[@Recabilly]

I'm completely with you. I want something big to happen where I tell my grandkids how significant it was. I want to be a part of humanity that discovers something that changes us forever.

[@mmmcat3895]

Well, nuclear fusion seems to have been achieved :3 so that’s something extremely significant

[@dio8636]

Covid appears in the chat

[@henrykamwenje4138]

"It's Aliens!!" Omuwamua: Show me what you got

[@karolyiklaudia1968]

Disqualified

[@ayushimody8382]

The vlogbrothers comment sections is one of my favorite places, it is so thoughtful, kind, funny, and awesome, I love this community so much

[@lonestarr1490]

Oh, shut up! Just kidding ;) Have a nice day filled by significant thoughts and meaningful doings.

[@universall8731]

Out of 4.5 Billion years, that's not out first interstellar visitor, Surely.

[@adonchavez3542]

Universall space is big man, actually big is a gigantic understatement, space is unimaginably huge, and we are moving, very, very fast its quite possible it was the first one

[@sleeknub]

Couldn’t agree more. I’m willing to bet that a few of the atoms in my body are from interstellar visitors.

[@bleppss2769]

It’s the first observable one so there’s the 4.499999 billion years we haven’t been able to observe anything

[@kane00000]

ok Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Thanks for your professional input.

[@Brosyphus]

@@adonchavez3542 Oh it's definitely possible. However the likelihood of it is so close to 0 that it is scientifically accurate to just say it is not the first one, period.

[@nathanwright5496]

Seems like a dense "vein", possibly a rigid core of a meteor or asteroid that had been shattered in some impact with another object, the "blunt" ends could also be explained by a very long time tumbling which of course mean the ends of this thing would impact smaller bebris in its travel more often than the center causing far more chipping and erosion.

[@Egregius]

I was thinking along the same lines. If a larger metallic body collided with another large body, the impact might have heated it up to melting point to fuse the metal together without necessarily making it a fluid mass reforming as a ball. And send it hurtling out of a star system.

[@harshbing8123]

If only it werw that simple to explain it...

[@nickpatella1525]

Maybe they were trying to hit us and they missed.

[@user-yb9fb3mf1w]

Hit or miss, I guess they sometimes miss, huh?

[@Callsign_Prophet]

@@user-yb9fb3mf1w got a boyfriend?

[@cyanidesurprise6432]

And then they passed out, had popsicle, fired again, then missed.

[@coledavis5212]

Nick Patella GoT a BoYfRiEnD? i BeT hE dOeSn’T kIsS yA *mwah*

[@znightowlz6585]

ExplodingHam 😂😂😂MWAH

[@bradley19822]

It's a chunk of Alderan.

[@kennynito235]

dhkargvl lol it finally made its way over here

[@KyloWen04]

Too soon...

[@thirtythreeflavors]

This actually made me briefly sad.

[@enchanted7076]

you won the internet today LMAO

[@Funstun-yk7oo]

@@KyloWen04 its been over 40 years

[@Cliffdog01]

I do like the broken probe idea. I mean we do have loads of space probes of our own that could wind up somewhere and giving other solar systems some weird and unexplained data the obvious ones are the Voyagers which in a few Million years could encounter something but also Pioneer missions. We even have our own Solar sail to investigate Alpha Centauri and presumably, those objects would not be able to stop and so would carry on at whatever speed they are left with.

[@Urbanconservative]

You guys should read a book called Rendezvous with Rama This book perfectly describes this type of “cigar shaped craft” and reminded me a lot of Star Trek :-) it was a good book but makes me sad we didn’t check this thing out.

[@bonesmusic2751]

It was an alien ship ready to attack us but because they got this close they were able to see thanos and got scared he might still be here because the movie got left on a cliffhanger.

[@fadevert]

It was a sprite cranberry.

[@eugh8025]

ISpongeGodI the answer is clear

[@bilalc4738]

Lmfao

[@bilalc4738]

@Nothing in Particular its the big shit that i took sorry my Bad

[@d9286]

Uh-huh

[@alanyou442]

REEEEEEE

[@crystalidx]

They saw how crazy earth is and departed.

[@liquidmech1727]

They saw furries

[@rjdiggs738]

crystalidx They saw trump and how low Americas IQ really was.😎

[@hackman669]

They forgot to take me with them!!!!!!

[@fallenphoenix148]

they saw your lame comment @@rjdiggs738

[@meekverde4750]

@@rjdiggs738 you're no fun.

[@karsonkammerzell6955]

Oh hey! You're the guy that helped me pass my anatomy class (went from a D to a B)! How you be, my dude? Thanks for all those anatomy videos!

[@kushandy7796]

its that car that got shot into space, it just melted and looks like a big doodoo now

[@dezmonmartin7158]

KushAndy lmaaaaooooo

[@PIan3t]

that was fake starman was fake

[@gavynmantilla4722]

It was a tesla and it was real. Just orbited earth though and im pretty sure it still is

[@cacnus]

@@gavynmantilla4722 it is no longer orbiting earth, it landed on earth a while ago

[@____________2708]

@@PIan3t theyre joking

[@roninpawn]

The object in question was, in fact, an escape ship. Long ago in a galaxy far away, a technologically advanced, once-space-fairing culture stood on the brink of extinction. Their planet was doomed, due to a sudden and unexpected solar event that would ultimately cause a mass extinction. As the planet's society descended into chaos, a group of scientists proposed and sold an escape plan to the world's wealthiest individuals. Despite their planet having long since become space-locked by a field of debris formed when a mass of satellite infrastructure had collided, these scientists proposed a plan by which a single craft could be designed and launched through the debris cloud enveloping the world. It would rely, in part, on a bit of luck clearing the field, while also creating the most opportune situation possible by detonating seven warheads in an expanding conic shape, within the debris field, to create a brief window. For brevity, we'll simply say that the mission was ultimately a success. (Though several technical and sociological issues plagued the project, launch, and even early transit.) The children of the richest, along with several young (and fertile) astronauts were delivered safe(ish)ly through the debris cloud and began their journey to a nearby solar system and a single planet hypothetically capable of sustaining life. After 17 generations, the great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandchildren of the original survivors, drew near enough to their destination to take new measurements. Sadly, the planet's composition was not what had been speculated by scientists on their - now completely enveloped in solar corona - home world. The planet's atmosphere would not sustain life. Adjusting course as they entered the solar system's gravity well allowed them to exit the system at higher velocity, and with a new destination set. 6032 generations later, retaining no history of how they came to live on a spaceship, their forefathers having turned the ship again and again toward the next-best-hope within their instrument's reach, the ship's small crew was facing a crisis. Key systems were aging out in ways that simply could not be repaired. Within 80 years, their ship's systems would no longer be able to provide them the necessaries of life. Beyond it's life-supporting capabilities the ship had long since run out of fuel... and engines. Components having been begrudgingly salvaged by each generation in order to keep life-support functioning. In 80 years, they would all surely die. As they looked morosely out the ship's windows waiting for death... There! On the horizon! (of space) A blue dot. A tiny blue dot drew ever closer. A planet of oxygen and hydrogen and the other necessaries of life -- the crew's instruments told them. And as they drew closer... Light! Patterns of light emitting from the planet's surface. Could... could this be a planet, not only habitable, but inhabited? By another race of sentient, technologically evolved beings?! Capable of space flight!?! The signals they were able to receive confirmed all of this. However, try as they might, none of the signals they attempted to return to the planet were received. For whatever reason, they were unable to communicate. For 20 years they tried, but no response was ever received. Realizing that their only chance of survival was to communicate with the world's inhabitants, they risked everything to dangerously vent a portion of the vessel's atmosphere, putting the ship into a slow tumble, the changing reflection of which, they hoped would gain the planet's attentions in the night sky. 3 of the ship's crew died executing this maneuver. But it was a success. The ship was put into a slow tumble. Now all that was left was to be seen, and for the inhabitants of the planet to come pick them up. As the ship floated past the planet, then past two more, and finally reached the zenith of it's solar trajectory, the last of the crew - having given up hope and choosing to die on their own terms - vented the ship's remaining atmosphere into space, killing themselves. Incidentally, the sudden decompression propelled the ship 10% to the left, or something. #LizardIlluminati

[@michaelkochalka3251]

Thank you for the short story, its was a good reading. Sadly we can only wonder of what it was...

[@jellyacc]

wow look at you going all out lol

[@yaumelepire6310]

This makes me even more stressed by this than I already was. Great story nonetheless; credit where credit’s due.

[@Sarcasticron]

Seriously, man, you should expand this summary into a for-real, professionally formatted short story and submit it to Analog or some similar SF magazine. They would love it. Alternatively, give me permission and I'll write it up. We can be co-authors. It would give me a good project to work on December; I need some sort of push to get me back into writing fiction, and all the off-gassing I've been doing lately doesn't seem to have helped.

[@heronb.4965]

please write a book like this, telling their story as they travelled through time and space

[@gony5456]

Oumuamua has brother his name is Uvuvwevwevwe onyetenyevwe Ugwem ubwem osas

[@lizzylies2073]

I actually got this joke.

[@gony5456]

@@lizzylies2073 And you are beautiful because of that

[@MartinQ-bl6co]

Spell it to me 😂

[@robb1996]

The serendipity is I learned about this meme only 5 hours ago

[@josiahk9591]

Love this comment

[@bananachild1936]

Oumuamua sounds like an Alolan Pokemon name

[@ethannavarre-cantrell6748]

Because it is... There named after the same place, where the telescope that first spotted this object is located

[@thoyo]

Intergalactic giants flinging poo. Problem solved..

[@playerhater424]

Boom! There it is

[@insan8ty]

Thanos is flinging his poop.

[@Apmongoman]

@@playerhater424 I think it's from the ginormous space slug in star wars, that happened a long time ago remember? Only logical it would reach us now.

[@jaredcoleman1788]

Mystery solved, now we have a bigger problem lol

[@Hayzie3]

WHO FLUNG DUNG??

[@kugreymon]

I wonder, why do we think that travelling at any speed being too slow for interstellar travel. What if alien, though i dont adamantly believe that, perceive time differently. 25km/s for a race that live for tens of thousands if not millions of years, may consider said speed to be sufficient

[@geralferald]

The smartest observation of anything I've heard this month. Congratulations.

[@greensteve9307]

Good point!

[@vathek5958]

Nonetheless, it is very possible for send stuff through space far quicker than this at not overly more effort (for a civilisation able to do this). So why send something so slow? Also, just in general, Ockham’s razor

[@Shaeress]

It's more because if we could do interstellar travel we could already go faster. Voyager 1 (1977) is going 17km/s and sunward probes have gone even faster, so we're already pretty close to those 25km/s. But with the technology available, once we've got a launch going we'll have 12 000 years to accelerate a fairly small, already existing solar sail provides a solar pressure of 5N and over 12000 years that's enough to accelerate 6000kg to a speed of 315360 km/s under Newtonian physics. That's 1.05 c, so we'd be far beyond Newtonian physics and there's very little solar pressure between solar systems, but if someone's going star hopping they probably have better and/or more efficient propulsion than contemporary solar sails. So yeah, on an interstellar scale 12 000 years doesn't have to be an insurmountable amount of time, but even with current Earth tech we could go much, much faster than 25km/s if we went interstellar on purpose and successfully.

[@kugreymon]

I agree with a lot of points made, but keeping the idea open, we are still assuming that alien technology develop at a faster rate than us, which might not be true The reason I doubt this is because technology is not linear, alien life form with different pre-existing environmental condition, the way the decide to contact us might be different, speed might not be of there greatest concern, the their ship, im just etertaining the possibility of alien space ship here, might not be an explorer vessel, but rather a living colony. A colony that have life form of significantly smaller size than human, developed tools or means of interstellar travel that is far different from how we did it due to their environment. Again, alien tech, they are different from us, not nescessarily developing faster even if say they got a 1mil year headstart, they develop things that might be side-grades to us but upgrades to them

[@Niemandzockt]

You can make a religion out of that.

[@nick-zg4hj]

It is a deadly laser

[@CreepX]

Nah... this actually happened...

[@nittyclips]

CreepX cringe

[@rabasi8330]

Like the Marker from Dead Space?

[@davidlane1248]

@@nick-zg4hj there's a blanket now!

[@FamaSicura]

You got my like when you said "...and is a person who looks like this". I chuckled. You look like the kindof guy I want to listen to. Great video.

[@myburn6733]

If i was an alien. i would disguise my ship as a space turd tbh

[@randomnumbers84269]

Our ships are turd like shapes as well, so...

[@feet3857]

Brother, i would too.

[@honestnuisance]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him

[@Karou812]

@@randomnumbers84269 Now imagine the aliens on that space turd actually have poop that naturally looks like space shuttles

[@110-c5x]

AGREE

[@Master_Therion]

Comet, Asteroid, or Spaceship? I'm indecisive, why not all three... a Cometeroid Ship!

[@vlogbrothers]

It's not impossible!

[@MisterAppleEsq]

+@@vlogbrothers But are you only saying that because you'd like it if it were this way?

[@greensteve9307]

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's superman!

[@DeckerBlueray]

Metroid?

[@davyhurst8968]

An ork rokk?

[@dragonrider30001]

So either it’s a space turd or a solar sail

[@TheDaker66]

I literally thought about a "space turd" too HAHHAAHAH

[@JakeBroe]

I love love love that you said this might be the remnants of a space battle. I know it's not... but it's fun to think it might be!

[@rurukitty405]

Leia called. She wants her piece of Alderaan back. Can NASA track the piece down for her?

[@adronator]

Ruru Jähi Can’t she fly through space and grab it herself ;)?

[@sebastiansantos1471]

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhaaha omg lol super leia

[@wuznab5109]

Suddenly everyone in the comment section is an astronomer.

[@cgiacona]

sir I'll have you know I have over 100 hours of experience in ksp

[@oO_Godspeed_Oo]

Suddenly someone who isn’t even trying to find an answer for himself but giving an comment that’s even worse than wrong explanations

[@Ssiluetaz]

Nah, they are turd-onomers. ...

[@justincarnes1553]

Hank how many channels are you on like goddamn

[@peteypete9357]

He's trying extra hard to make rent this month

[@lostchromatician1694]

Lol ikr

[@lankyjuggler]

So no one's talking about the giant space poop hypothesis? Idk seems like that's what the artist drawing it had in mind.

[@Zelkiiro]

It's the Lance of Longinus. Rebuild of End of Evangelion confirmed.

[@zdalla3983]

hecc off weeb

[@krocsandsocs4286]

fricc you normie

[@tromkalixon6933]

Nope, it's EVA 01 petrified.

[@xaldynnemo47]

Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...

[@ermacbigmac]

Space blunt

[@wuznab5109]

It’s from another star system. IT MUST BE ALIENS

[@dadtronic]

Well no shit.

[@firippumartinezu1782]

Perfect deductive reasoning! I concur.

[@jayylad38]

i got 5 minutes in before i realized the video was longer than normal

[@TheRedeye6]

I mean, I get why observing and extremely weird thing we weren't even looking for would suggest it is relatively common, but there is also the possibility that an even more uncommon thing did occur; we happened, by chance, to notice an extremely uncommon thing. The universe is very large and very old. 1 in a billion are long odds for us, but not long odds for the universe. So while it is, perhaps, more likely that it is more common than we previously thought, that does not mean it necessarily is. We could have struck a cosmological lottery here. Stranger things have happened.

[@ArticBlueFox96]

So if I were to simply your metaphor, it would be: Essentially, we have lottery winners all the time, but the chance that anyone person would win the lottery is small. This event happens all the time, but the chance that anyone (meaning living and sentient civilizations) would see it is small. Is that right?

[@jangyman]

6:16 ...a giant, tumbling Mr Hankey is an appropriate greeting to humanity.

[@Azzarinne]

Carl missed.

[@rayk01]

Oumuamua might be the notice to us that they are building the hyperspace bypass

[@seanwood5550]

Its clearly a dropping from a giant space whale.

[@theworldoverheavan560]

Lol

[@pennyisdreadful]

Yeah ummm, according to warhammer 40k space whales are not a good sign.

[@NansSpaghetti115]

No joke it would be so cool to see a real space whale imagine of they were real

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@@NansSpaghetti115 lol

[@seanwood5550]

I guess there's two schools of thought on if space whales are cool or not.

[@fuge74]

my standing suspicion is that it is just a weird asteroid caused by a violent and unusual explosion. basically the properties of dirt made a very odd shape and an incomplete chemical reaction made an unintentional solar sail. like one side being pure iron and the other iron oxide. I think something hurling through dark space and the greater cosmic void would already have some degree of internal cohesiveness so as to not simply break apart.

[@jadepaigedawn]

If it was that I think that the momentum would be a lot higher, explosions that occur in space are usually based around stars because of the lack of oxygen, also if it was a weird explosion the thing that caused the explosion would have had a gravity so it shouldn't be that shape?

[@backonlazer791]

I speculate something similar. Chemical elements often form layers. We can observer that here on Earth. It was probably a piece of something bigger and got chipped off when it collided with something. That could explain its unusual shape, spinning motion and the solar sail effect.

[@GhostSamaritan]

@@jadepaigedawn Maybe the speed changed over time?

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Great video, Hank... AND thanks for all the research!!! For the record, no... You don't lose credibility for taking a moment and tossing a few interesting and speculative ideas out there. It's fun to wonder, even more fun when you get past the "WTF" stage and make a few observations from which you can perfectly well let your imagination wander. ...just remember it's a bit too little to be left out on its own for too long. ;o)

[@GoalFinisher]

You made some good points about always wanting big news. Everyday is boring and explosive news like that hasn't happened in a while.

[@stellatedhexahedron6985]

The etymology history of the meaning of "alien" is "other" => "of another" => "from somewhere else". So, while the answer to "Is it aliens?" is, the answer to "Is it AN alien?" is absolutely yes. "Probably just a really weird rock" isn't exactly the most exciting imaginable first contact story, but it definitely is one.

[@Andy-zg8wq]

Sorry brothers, that’s actually my *WHIP*

[@DUDEITSNOODLES1]

11madmfmfmfmf"

[@AN-ou6qu]

MeenMan 777 oh yeah yeah?

[@jacobvlogerandgamer578]

Alina Nechiporenko oh yeah yeah yeah

[@aldoringo439]

Lol

[@AcrylicM]

That's just alien Elon Musk sending Alien Tesla with a solar sail to space, nothing special. Carry on

[@biggoose1313]

aKirill Alien Musk ?

[@TheBlackfall234]

Meanwhile Elon Musks Car is arriving at their planet and they think the same shit.

[@croxdirt3151]

holy crap I can't wait till I graduate college and become an astrology physises and observe this kind of stuff and the possibility that a space battle could have happened somewhere out there and the debris is drifting into our galaxy!!!!!

[@Averwing]

Lets just hope are planet doesn't get blown up in that space battle by a death star lol

[@jaysworld4827]

@@Averwing wakeup earth is flat space is fake ... you will notice soon enough

[@GRE051]

THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING TO U

[@bolouxshetnfouk2741]

@@jaysworld4827 Intelligence -100

[@davidmeans1]

It's the monolith from 2001

[@paigescaffidi9587]

Or perhaps 2012..?🤔

[@eventsteven7921]

Paige Scaffidi no 2001 space odyssey you pleb

[@MnemonicHeadTrip]

yes

[@matthewconte875]

@@eventsteven7921 2012 is the sequel to 2001. It's a series.

[@doctorballs8309]

eventsteven 2012 is the sequel

[@brat3213]

It’s a giant poop from a giant interstellar creature. We are lucky.

[@groodey5714]

2:58 Obi Wan Kenobi: that’s no moon!

[@TheHappyWanderer]

It's a space shit

[@tron7_]

@Grand Theft Auto channel *_d e a d s t a r_*

[@viperregained69420]

Death Star

[@maybeimight8207]

They found Tony Stark. Quick. Send a spaceship.