Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for February 02, 2019

What happened to the elephant?

I can think of worse places to be probed.

Wrong kind of probe, Hambone.

It’s just looking for whales.

Better to cover your ass.

Finder’s Keepers …….

Keep that away from your gravity well.

It could be a scene similar to that one in 2001: A Space Odyssey, replacing the bone with a cotton swab.

These guys and their imagination are so funny! (at least I think it is imagination)

Plus it’s ‘Oumuamua, innit? Apparently the «’» at the beginning is essential to the spelling.

Blah blah blah I love the squirrel

Obviously from Uranus ;)

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

Our civilization would probably collapse if we met one. Like how the paleolithic Indians of the Americans fared against the more advanced Spaniards, British & French.

Some information I had come across back in 2017.

‘Oumuamua tore into our system at nearly a perpendicular angle, traveling at up to 87.7 km/s as it whipped around the Sun; its estimated velocity as it came into our system was over 26 km/s—for comparison, typical comets in our system travel at a mere 3 km/s. ’Oumuamua’s velocity is sufficient to escape the Sun’s pull and return to interstellar space travel after its slingshot around our star. Its speed, steep approach angle, and the very wide arc it was describing mean that it could only have come from outside the solar system.

Although too small for any human device to capture a detailed view of it, ‘Oumuamua’ was confirmed to be of a light reddish color, as is not uncommon in some of our system’s native asteroids. But readings indicate that it is rotating rapidly and is unusually elongated, with dimensions in the ratio of at least 5.3:1, which equals the most elongated objects seen before in our system; its dimensions are estimated at 180×30×30m.

As the first known interstellar object seen in our system, a whole new space object classification had to be created: “I” for “interstellar.” ’Oumuamua’s designation is thus 1I. It is also the first of a new class of asteroids: hyperbolic asteroids.

Scientists speculate the object originated in the Q-Tip system.

I’d be worried about covering another portion of my body.