Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

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Thaliur

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the spud said:
Alien 1: Okay, explain to me why we chose the planet closest closest to this star to land our spaceship.

Alien 2: Cuz it will be cool!

*Both aliens immediately die of hotness*
Argh, don't mae me read things lie this early morning. I nearly woke up my girlfriend because when reading "Cuz it will be cool!" I"heard" it in the voice of the Martian hologram in Invader Zim...
(Sorry for the filmed-off look, it was the only video of it I could find right now)

But your scenario sounds plausible. After all, we might be taling about a species that keeps abducting people who no sane person would ever believe anything and performing the same experiments every time (Seriously, how interesting can a mammal's anus be that you have to check every last one?). Then again, it might just be their sense of humour...


Actually, I will side with the scientist's explanation. Not just because it was published by a scientist, but also because it sounds far more plausible than a planet-sized cloaed spaceship. Just imagine the power consumption of this thing (unless it's just using a huge "Other People's Problem" field, of course).
 
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1. To the people saying an alien ship would be fried by the sun: Are you fucking stupid? You're talking about an alien ship the size of a planet, and you think you know what hypothetically could or couldn't damage it? Seriously?

2. It's not an alien spaceship the size of a planet. You know why? Because NASA says it isn't, it's their job and look at stuff and figure out if it's an alien or not. It would be awesome if it was, but it's not.
 

Frost27

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Ham_authority95 said:
If it was an Alien craft, they got pretty fucking fried.

It was probably space debris(like asteroids) being irradiated by the solar flare.
That is pretty close to my first impression. Maybe one of Mercury's moons got in the way and the flash is the solar flare blowing a cloud of burning irradiated dust off of it.
 

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i have to admit it, it does look very spaceship like, a little too spaceshipy though. like someone faking it.
 

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Zachary Amaranth said:
Shit...We've been discovered.

"Phelgarble Alpha to mothership....Abort! Abort!"
This is the Mothership. There's no need for alarm, Captain Amaranth of the Phergarble Alpha, the Federation assures you that this is all part of the plan laid out by our glorious High Emperor. We cannot say much more over this insecure civillian channel, so have an agent renzevous with our agent at Drop Point 314, where you will be given your new orders.

All Hail the High Emperor!
DVS BSTrD said:
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.
There will be no need for a censor, Liutenant. As stated earlier, everything is happening as laid out by the High Emperor. The Human's reactions to this breach in security has been flawlessly conducted according to His plan, with the aftermath being crucial to the overwhelming of their defences.

All Hail the High Emperor!
 

DirgeNovak

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Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
Wouldn't that just be an Ice Comet?

I mean this is what he said in the the video: "What else doesn't show it self until it's hit by solar radiation?"

Well just about every solid object in the universe.
Pretty much that. It's probably a comet/asteroid/meteorite etc. Maybe even an undiscovered moon?
Either those, or it's Mercury itself. You know, like actual scientists said it was.
 

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javelinstark said:
by odens beard i live for this shit!
its bull that someones trying to say its mercury, someone always has a convieniently bs explination.
They're saying that it's the wake caused by it moving through the matter on its normal orbit. Much like when a ship moves through the water, the wake displaced by the moving bow eventually rushes back together in a sort of eddy, much like the matter here is. Not to trample all over your beliefs, but what I'd like to know is why the creator of a three-minute Youtube video somehow holds more sway to you than an institution that has been at pretty much the forefront of astronomical research for the past fifty years.

Also, Odin*
 

Thaliur

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Frost27 said:
Ham_authority95 said:
If it was an Alien craft, they got pretty fucking fried.

It was probably space debris(like asteroids) being irradiated by the solar flare.
That is pretty close to my first impression. Maybe one of Mercury's moons got in the way and the flash is the solar flare blowing a cloud of burning irradiated dust off of it.
Mercury has moons?
You might be on to something, though. The image enhancement explanation does sound convincing, and is probably true, but since it's a 2-dimensional image of 3-dimensional space, something showing up near mercury does not necessarily mean it appeared near mercury. Just in almost the same direction.

We really need proper 3D cameras...
 

Yak Johnson

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I'm thinking we take an expedition, enslave whatever lives there, and replace Columbus day with a holiday commemorating that.

In all seriousness, it's just Mercury.
 

Patrick Corners

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Its Quite obvious its the Cylons coming to finish the job they started, to bad we dont have a giant space battleship to fight them. Ok on a serious note its probably a visible wake of the planet caused by debris much like a boat. It was vaporize by the heat from the release of material by the sun
 

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Liquidacid23 said:
Furioso said:
Liquidacid23 said:
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.


aprildog18 said:
"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
"67% of internet quotes have something to do about your mother. You know, the one I fucked!" - Mahatma Gandhi

Also, that's no UFO. It's a space station.
 

gbemery

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Holy galactic anomalies Batman, it's the Joker...I mean obviously it's the Babylon 4 station and the Minbari simply cloaked it and placed it in orbit around Mercury after they were done using it as a base of operations in their war against the Shadows.

Deathleaper said:
We should nuke it, just to be safe.
I like the way you think sir, better to air on the side of caution.

Liquidacid23 said:
Furioso said:
Liquidacid23 said:
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.


aprildog18 said:
"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
"One potato, two potato, three potato, four..." - George W. Bush

sidecord said:
Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was "obviously" a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.
Because he obviously subscribes to the "Ancient Aliens" ideology of the scientific method.
 

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Looks like the Starship Enterprise to me. Oh, God. Please let it be so. I wanna see Spock!

Seriously though, interesting find.
 

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I'm failing to see why an object in space must necessarily be an alien spacecraft, let alone a cloaked alien spacecraft. I'm keen to see more analysis of this though, space anomalies are fun and often lead to exciting discoveries even if they don't involve little green men.
 

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I for one welcome our new Russian/Marvel comics/Cybertronian/Galactic Empire overlords.