Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury

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RagTagBand

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Samurai Silhouette said:
BleedingPride said:
a planet's natural defense from solar winds
This would imply that planets procreate and evolve through natural selection.
Why on earth would you think that? A planets magnetosphere (look it up) is a naturally occurring phenomena, Our magnetosphere protects us from solar winds, ergo, A planets magnetosphere is it's natural defense from solar winds.
 

Hazy992

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zOMG it's Planet Nibiru!!! We're all dead!! Panic! Panic NAO!!! :p
 

direkiller

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sidecord said:
so, i must ask, what do yall thinnk
i have to say, im kinda leaning more to the "its a ship" side
Sigh the movie is made up of composite shots over a few days
its just mercury from the day before
 

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Saraphim said:
Have you seen... Melancholia?
That was going to be my response to be honest. Ah well, given that movie's timeline, I'd say we have a few more months, let's make the best of it ;).
 

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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.
Federation? Bah! The federation is weak! WEAK!

Patrick_and_the_ricks said:
Wouldn't that just be an Ice Comet?
No way, man, it HAS to be a cloaked spaceship because...Ummm...SCIENCE!

Jack the Potato said:
Oh shit.

It's Unicron. Or Galactus. Or the Death Star. We're fucked!

Quick, get me Shia Lebeouf, Jessica Alba, and Mark Hamill!

What? No, they can't save us! Are you crazy? I just want to meet them before we all die!
Please kick Shia in the nuts for me.
 

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RagTagBand said:
Samurai Silhouette said:
BleedingPride said:
a planet's natural defense from solar winds
This would imply that planets procreate and evolve through natural selection.
Why on earth would you think that? A planets magnetosphere (look it up) is a naturally occurring phenomena, Our magnetosphere protects us from solar winds, ergo, A planets magnetosphere is it's natural defense from solar winds.
Earth and Venus are the only inner planets to have a magnetosphere
Mercury and mars do not(mars did at one time but its core is too cold now to generate a strong magnetic field)

this is simply a product of shots over a few days strung into a picture show

the algorithm they use to remove background also shows after images of planets from the day before(CME take a few days).
 

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So the aliens are smart enough to travel through galaxies but they can't hide themselves well, huh.
Oh Youtube, stop trolling please.
 

Zack Alklazaris

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Well that explains the "dark planet shaped" spot, but what about that bright glow in front of that spot that seems to grow?
 

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Frost27 said:
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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 doesn't have any moons.

gbemery said:
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.
Great, now we're an intergalactic dumping ground for crap people in sci fi shows don't need anymore. That would explain why Saturns rings are now made up of broken Borg cubes and bits of broken Death Star.

Jean Hag said:
DA FU&K? Nuke it just for safety, identify yourselves or enjoy dodging a barrage of ICBMs coming your way.
DA FUCK!?! You wanna start a shooting war with a race with possibly superior fire power and lets face it, if they've mastered interstellar travel, they probably do. Fuck that! Everyone turn out the lights and pretend there's no one home.
 

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Don Savik said:
Eh, just send them some footage from Serious Sam BFE and tell them that its what happens when aliens fuck with earth. I'm sure they'll get the picture.
Best not to send any images of Duke Nukem Forever. They'll get the same message we all did. It took so long, it's practically impotent now. So good choice on the Serious Sam. =)
 

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I'd like it to be a ship, but c'mon... It's not likely is it...

Nasa's explanation seems most likely. I lol'd when the guy in the video said 'It's DEFINITELY a manufactured object.' I'm surprised his American heritage didn't force him to shout CONSPIRACY like a paranoid child with torrettes.
 

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1. It doesn't look so obviously like a ship as SiniXter seems to think.
2. Why is it cloaked and how is it that solar radiation makes it visible (wait, isn't solar radiation what allows us to see everything?)
3. Why is it orbiting Mercury, so close to the sun?
4. In order to say it's so obviously a ship means SiniXter would have had to see one for comparison. Where would he have seen one? Sci-fi.
5. The NASA explanation makes sense and accounts for the fact that the shape is odd and changes slightly as the radiation intensifies.

All in all, while I don't like it, I have to call the "I don't know, therefore aliens" summing up of people's responses. People try to compare it to ships they've seen in movies which is made up by humans, and because they don't understand the explanation, they dismiss it as the government covering it up with mumbo-jumbo.
 

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sidecord said:
this is the story (from yahoo)
"Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?
this is ******** until you reference it. sorry the internet is simply not realiable enough to just believe people. lol especially whilst the daily mail is online.
 

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Wakikifudge said:
masterbazza said:
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.


.....and then weep in dispair because of the immenant reaper invasion.