Scientists are such meanies sometimes.

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Occam's razor.

It's just a rock, and the 'acceleration' was nothing but bad math.

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Occam's razor.

It's just a rock, and the 'acceleration' was nothing but bad meth.

Emphasis added.

FTFY

It's all bad.

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Update:

Harvard prof doesn't back down from claims that alien spacecraft may be zipping past Jupiter orbit

A distinguished Harvard University professor is not backing down from his claims that a piece of extraterrestrial spacecraft technology may be flying past the orbit of Jupiter at this moment.

Avi Loeb, one of the top astronomy professors in the world, boasting of decades of Ivy League professorships and hundreds of publicized works in respected astronomy publications, is remaining defiant that the space object – dubbed as “Oumuamua” – first noticed by Hawaiian astronomers in 2017 could be from another civilization.

“Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment,” Loeb and his colleague Shmuel Bialy wrote in Astrophysical Journal Letters in November, according to the Washington Post.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/harvard ... iter-orbit (links at page)

You can also look at:
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832

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"Being well educated is no guarantee against being dead wrong."

--Carl Sagan.