To help you make sense of the image: the thing was approaching from below the ring, blasted through the ring and left a plume of material pointing toward the upper right hand corner of the picture, the plume is casting a shadow toward the lower lefthand corner. No one knows what it is. Other than a great big space rock, probably.
I learned about it by listening to Phil Platt, of Bad Astronomy, on Coast to Coast last night (I got the pix from his site as well). For those of you not in the know, Coast to Coast is the gloriously strange radio show devoted to alien abductions, the Hollow Earth theory, the Taos Hum, Bigfoot, etc. It's about 80% silly, 20% interesting.
This is from the 20% interesting bit.
It comes on the heels of the comet slamming into Jupiter last month. Do I sense a pattern here? Did some passing object perturb the orbits of all those frozen space rocks at the edge of the Solar System? Are we about to be bombarded with shrapnel from the Oort Cloud?
Stay tuned.
4 comments:
If we do get bombarded I'm blaming you. No reason why.
What is this Taos Hum? I've been near Taos. I remember no hum. Quick, to the Wikimobile!
Uh Oh.
I think the Universe is giving us the finger.
Eric, did you learn about the Taos Hum? There used to be a site up where people shared their experiences with the hum. Fascinating. It was clear they believed in it, whether it was actually happening or not. Ruined their lives.
Rudi, the universe is calling us and asking if we have Prince Albert in a can (then it's saying "better let him out" and hanging up).
Yeah, I looked it up. Very cool, very strange. A sound that gets louder in a soundproof room. X-ray sounds? I'm certainly inclined to believe that some odd geography/ology would make a hum, even one only certain folks could hear. But one that defies conventional behavior? Not so much.
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