Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

[Kinguendo]

ITS GALACTUS! Its the only rational explanation!

We knew it was only a matter of time before the World Eater reached us... get the Fantastic Four on the fone... sorry, phone.

 

[brainslurper]

If Shepard doesn't bring help soon... There wont be an earth left to save...

 

[Ham_authority95]

If it was an Alien craft, they got pretty fucking fried.

It was probably space debris(like asteroids) being irradiated by the solar flare.

 

[brainslurper]

I actually clicked the video so I could view YouTube's comments section and a poster her a VERY valid point.
Why would you cloak your vessel next to an uninhabited planet?
Furthermore, I ask... Why the hell would you park next to the sun.\
p.s. I think this video is total bullshit. I'm just sayin'.

1. So that we don't see it, as we wouldn't have without the energy from the sun
2. Maybe they thought that the heat from the sun would keep them from being detected? Or maybe their ship can gather fuel from the sun?

I think it is a mildly menacing rock that was heated from the energy from the sun, but one can hope..

 

[Slaanesh]

We should nuke it, just to be safe.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I shall await a response from people who have dedicated their lives to the study of the cosmos, rather than the garbled ramblings of a conspiracy nut.

Although I do hope it's an alien ship, preferably a friendly one, that will share the secret of interstellar travel.

I'm feeling lazy, so I hope they bring us technology that makes it so nobody has to work to live life and get the things they want.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to marathon some TNG episodes.

so you like poorly made sci-fi then

Thems fightin' words, you better not be dissin' the Trek. Star Trek is in my top 5 best sci-fi shows in history.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Looks kinda like a satellite to me. Maybe its actually close to us and it just happened to be next to mercury in the cameras view.

 

[spartan231490]

It's not a ship. The Nasa explanation looks reasonable, and there is no reason for a ship to be orbiting mercury.

 

[Vigormortis]

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to marathon some TNG episodes.

so you like poorly made sci-fi then

You have issue with Star Trek? I'm curious then, what would you suggest?

Also, why the insult? Did I insult you? Did I throw into question your tastes on something?

Or wait, is it that you believe the detritus that came from this video and took offense to my scoffing at it?

 

[BCBUDRULEZ]

I had a guy I work with tell me that the government was conducting a media blackout on just how serious the radiation leak from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor really was. While he couldn't get into detail.. he said "just don't go outside when it rains." which was ridiculous, we both live roughly three hours away from an area with some of the highest recorded average rainfall in the world. "Good luck with that." was what I told him. For some reason this guy sounds just like the guy I work with. I think I might show him this video. I'll tell him "It's too late for tin foil your fool! Were already dying of cancer!"

 

[DarkPegasus333]

Is it just me, or does it look like it could be the front view of a Federation ship?

 

[Singularly Datarific]

We are detecting planets orbiting stars trillions of miles away just by watching them wobble. Pretty sure someone would've noticed it.
Other than that- CRIPES! IT'S THE KLINGONS!

 

[Hamish Durie]

Shit...We've been discovered.

"Phelgarble Alpha to mothership....Abort! Abort!"

That's a violation of the treaty Zachary. You know DAMN well this star system is in the Demilitarized zone! I hope you're Prepared to be censored by the Federation council.

ill make a distraction while we make our escape

 

[Furioso]

OMG it's the Babylonian Brotherhood !!!!!! quick someone call David Icke!!!! we must stop those damn blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the Alpha Draconis star system who are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at controlling humanity.

"You can't believe everything you see on the internet" -George Washington

"80% of the quotes on the internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln

60% of the time, quotes on the internet are wrong all of the time - Winston Churchill

 

[similar.squirrel]

It's always gratifying to see people jumping to the most logical conclusion. Good ol' anal-probe enthusiasts, at the forefront of scientific enquiry.

 

[Furioso]

OMG it's the Babylonian Brotherhood !!!!!! quick someone call David Icke!!!! we must stop those damn blood-drinking, shape-shifting reptilian humanoids from the Alpha Draconis star system who are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at controlling humanity.

"You can't believe everything you see on the internet" -George Washington

"80% of the quotes on the internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln

60% of the time, quotes on the internet are wrong all of the time - Winston Churchill

"90% of Statistics are made up on the spot" - Darth Vader

*Insert clever segway into this video here*

 

[Volothos]

Oh shit. Its the Creator! Fuckfuckfuck, quickly! Someone awaken the Lunar Whale! Wheres Cecil?!

 

[Naeo]

People with degrees in this stuff say it's Mercury. My basic understanding of astronomy/E&M/etc don't see anything too abnormal with this. On the other hand, people with no relevant degrees decide "holy shit it's an alien space ship because there is nothing else this could possibly be".

Guess who I believe.

 

[mcnally86]

If extra-terrestrial intelligent life visited the solar system the first things we would notice would be:

A) Tourists
B) Alien equivalent of David Attenborough
C) Worse, Alien equivalent of Darwin stealing random people in a rather obvious fashion and setting up on some random island
D) Total and utter annihilation of the species to harvest the resources of earth/stop us from ever becoming any form of threat.
E) Off world slavery.
F) Colonization.

I do not buy the "Aliens will have our best interests at heart" I mean, did WE ever have the best interests of anyone at heart when we colonized them? No, We went in, shot people, give the survivors diseases and took everything of worth at best, enslaved millions of people to grow shit that we wanted to sell whilst doing all of the above at worst.

Nor do I buy the "Aliens who have the power to travel the cosmos would then proceed to abduct random impressionable farmers/crash into earth for no given reason". Finally, There is no benefit from a ship the size of a planet nor parking said ship near a star (Stars are hot. Very, very hot) so I am inclined to go for what the scientists say over some dude on youtube who, chances are, wears a tinfoil hat.

I mean, Why create a ship the size of a planet? Sure, it can apparently be cloaked but... Space has debris, debris is dangerous. Ship the size of a planet would attract a lot of debris. Ship the size of a planet is a big target so is useless if someone wanted to blow it up. Ship the size of a planet is not covert so useless for studying anything.

Ship the size of a planet would cost so goddam much to build as to be pointless. I mean, look at the Death Star!

Much like the Native American had no concept of the ownership of land until it was forcibly taught to them we have yet to learn the concept of owning out internal organs. Basically if you're attached to having to lungs don't take the bead they offer you no matter how shiny.

On a serious note this is a publicity stunt for the new Prey game. They made a planet sized space ship and parked it off mercury. If you get abducted before launch night you get exclusive DLC...and your spleen harvested.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Scientist who's job it is to analyze said footage says that it's an image of Mercury.
Random YouTuber disagrees and says it's an alien space ship.
People side with YouTuber.
What the fuck?