Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Nasa's explanation sounds reasonable to me. Especially since it appears to be directly 'behind' the planet.

Not to mention wouldn't an object of that size(ie about half the size of mercury) be sucked into the sun that close? I mean I'm definitely not a physics person but I'd say that would be a bad place to hang out

 

[Zhukov]

Carrier has arrived.

Someone call Shepard.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Oh, nevermind. It was just some gravy on the telescope. *Teehe* What a bummer.

 

[Tiger Sora]

THERE IS A LARGE PLANET SIZED OBJECT CLOSE TO MERCURY. IT IS BLUE-GREEN AND APPEARS TO SUPPORT RUDIMENTARY CARBON-BASED LIFE.

The Russians built a whole planet? This is worse than I thought.

And than they abducted you, altered your memories, and your living on that planet. RUN DUDE RUN!!!!

 

[2fish]

THERE IS A LARGE PLANET SIZED OBJECT CLOSE TO MERCURY. IT IS BLUE-GREEN AND APPEARS TO SUPPORT RUDIMENTARY CARBON-BASED LIFE.

The Russians built a whole planet? This is worse than I thought.

And than they abducted you, altered your memories, and your living on that planet. RUN DUDE RUN!!!!

But this Russian planet has skyrim...what if the American plane doesn't have skyrim? Am I typing in Russian and I don't know it? What do Russians taste like?

 

[Vanbael]

*sighs* Ok, I'm going to say this...why Mercury? Why? Its a fucking fireball on one side and an icicle on the other. Come to think of it, if they are that stupid, then that explains where my dumbass coworker comes from. I'll have to figure out their signal to flag them down so they can take him back.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I sure like some mystery of impending doom with my coffee in the morning, but whatever telescope was used is highly inaccurate so it wouldn't surprise me if it's simply a sensory shadow.

 

[Shaughn Caso]

I highly doubt it would be an alien ship, or ship of any kind. besides, if it was alien, that it would be almost certainly so far different from what we would think it is that we as a race could not comprehend it even if we did get a clear image.

 

[javelinstark]

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*

i see your point but it just seems like some explanations are so singular and convenient that i get a few suspicions. and oden is a proper way to spell it. its either othin oden or odin or if you want to get specific ygg, it depends on the dialect and the region

 

[Beryl77]

So, do I believe some random guy on youtube talking about aliens or some actual scientist who knows what he's talking about?
I think the answer is obvious.

 

[RedDeadFred]

its a mass relay

If it really was and Bioware had based their video games off of some fact of how the universe really is because they are secretly Asari (or some other Citadel race) that are trying to gradually introduce us to the rest of the galaxy, I would probably cry tears of joy for a month straight.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Huh... that is weird, but let's try to think of other possible reasons besides "it is aliens."

 

[Eventidal]

Does anyone here realize how big a Mercury is?

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/13db9ddd.jpg

Smaller than Earth, yes. But that "spaceship" you see in the video? That thing is the width of a whole Mercury. As in, it's a plznet-sized ship. As in, it's so massive, it would blacken the sky over whatever entire country it chose, just by de-cloaking in orbit over it. Either these are beings so huge, they could be seen walking on the surface of Mercury if we just bothered to point our telescopes there, or they built a spaceship capable of housing BILLIONS of inhabitants. Just... try and wrap your head around that. Insanity.

This is some crazy guy spouting whatever he thinks, because he saw a shape on there. I'm more inclined to believe the people who have been doing this stuff all their lives. I can only imagine the amount of facepalm they're experiencing right now, seeing people's reactions over this. Assuming they really were talking out their asses and covering this up so as not to panic people, there's probably a 95% chance this isn't sentient life or even an actual object. The bounds of physics and science go far beyond what we know, so perhaps there's an answer to this odd phenomenon somewhere out there. But I'm more inclined to believe it's MAGIC than ALIENS.

 

[Volothos]

The zentradi are invading! Someone create veritech fighters!

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury



Leading scientific minds hypothesize it may be yo' momma

 

[Ghengis John]

"It's cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it's cloaked,"

Ah yes. Because he would know what a ship looks like.

i have to say, im kinda leaning more to the "its a ship" side

So instead of going with the rational explanation you are going with whatever you imagine? I have to say, go with the people who work with the damned camera everyday. You are otherwise like a peasant attributing some natural phenomena to witches and evil spirits. If you walked into your doctor's office and declared "I have a broken leg, I demand you shake a rattle at it immediately." he would ask you to wait for a moment before returning with security. Most of us would feel foolish for even imagining we knew more than an expert in person, but here on the internet people do it so readily. It's quite perplexing.

 

[Anarchemitis]

MESSENGER will be able to figure it out.

 

[PurePareidolia]

As much as I trust the word of renowned astrophysicist SiniXster I'm going to have to say no, I'm not buying it.

 

[Hijax]

That's no moon...

 

[dunedog]

What I posted on that video:

1. Go to the SECCHI website
2. Select HI1, SECCHI-A, any resolution, and 9 days
3. Watch the animation
Look at all that stuff around (what I assume is) Mercury.