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Moostache

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3. "First EVER"? Seems pretty unlikely...

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Mon Dec 18, 2017, 04:25 PM

Dec 2017

I hate to cast dispersion, but there seems very little chance this is the first EVER extra stellar object in our galaxy...now, the first one that we have noted and had the capability to discuss planet wide in real time? Ok, I will bite on that....but first EVER? Nah...

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Oumuamua: First alien object to visit our solar system is wrapped in strange organic coat [View all] n2doc Dec 2017 OP

"incredibly abnormal"? LunaSea Dec 2017 #1

First ever to be identified as such. Doubt it's the first ever. cos dem Dec 2017 #2

"First EVER"? Seems pretty unlikely... Moostache Dec 2017 #3

Exactly. nt Irish_Dem Dec 2017 #6

Sounds like Tholin n2doc Dec 2017 #4

If I were an advanced race from far far away, I would disguise my ship just like this when I travel. Irish_Dem Dec 2017 #5

As someone else said, it's probably the Captain's Log. ret5hd Dec 2017 #7

1964 GeorgeGist Dec 2017 #8

wrapped in plastic. nt Javaman Dec 2017 #9

just saying... Sancho Dec 2017 #10