Death Star SUCKS PLASMA FROM SUN in NASA riddle vid Keen-eyed skywatchers have spotted a mysterious object emerging from the Sun that, according to the tinfoil-hatted YouTube majority, can only be a UFO, a small black hole, a world-destroying weapon or maybe a new planet. Images show a shadowy spherical object apparently tethered to home world's star by a dark string. After …
As any fule kno (or at least any fule who played Elite) skimming suns is a simple way of refuelling without the inconvenience of having to dock at a space station where you are considered to be a probably criminal! Only disadvantage was if you are too greedy they you fry!
There's no object there, YOU CAN SEE THE BLOODY BACKGROUND STARS THROUGH WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
Idiotic UFO cranks hallucinating again. There's some kind of tornado-like vortex in the plasma clouds at the edge of the sun, and above it there's a bowl-like eversion in the clouds, just a gap where they've probably been pulled out of shape by the vortex. Anyone who thinks they can see a UFO clearly can't tell the difference between there being a solid object somewhere and there not being a solid object there.
And this would be out of the question, exactly how?
Look, if I were to go space truckin', I'd take a vehicle that can take a lot of plasma, for those long stretches of icy void between the stars. Which again means you need a fair bit of insulation around the tank, and a bit of shielding for the times you fill up by skimming one of those stars you visit. Add it all up, and you'll find that a big planet (Jupiter-sized, possibly, but with a solid crust to live in, like the earth) could well fit the bill.
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Really? They are not "keen-eyed" they are, in fact, delusional. This is the solar equivalent of someone seeing a cloud that looks like a bus and so ElReg dutifully publishes an article saying "Flying bus spotted". Optical illusion caused by our miniscule brain's inability to perceive the world in any way other than what it can cobble together. Nothing is as it seems, but this is even less than nothing.
“The Culture craft was hiding in the surface layers of the system sun,” Xoralundra said bitterly, more to himself than to Horza.
'In the sun?' Horza was incredulous. He looked back at the cell door, as though somehow it was Balveda’s fault. “Those bastards are getting smarter all the time."
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You silly earth dwellers, who are living in the cosmic equivalent of cavemen....
I suppose we should award you some brownie points to have advanced to the stage where you can view the outline of our mothership. But you make two significant mistakes in your analysis.
Firstly, our mothership isn't at the same distance between you and the Sun, it's about halfway between, and just so happens on this visit to be on this side of the Sun - often we park up on the far side, where you'd never see us.
Secondly, we aren't sucking energy or anything else from your Sun. We are in fact emptying our starfleet garbage system. After all, you earth dwellers figured out long ago that an incinerator plant is a good way of disposing of unwanted waste, and like all good space dwellers we try to keep the environment clean for everyone. If we were bad neighbours we'd be dumping our loo system on earth as we passed by, but you'd probably not respect us for doing something like that - our operatives make use of the cosmic equivalents of vindaloo curry topped up with large volumes of Tiger lager, but unlike some earth dwellers we don't puke it up on the high street.
We'd love to come and say hello but sadly now isn't the right time. Your stupid indoctrination systems where the gods you invented seem to preach that destroying the lives of non-believers in your own religions means you haven't reached the plateau of respecting your own kind yet. You will, but it won't be for a while.
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