Is Oumuamua an Alien Spaceship? Sure! Except, No

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 4:33 p.m.

When you wish upon a star (or an asteroid or a comet) you are wishing on plasma, ice, dust, rock, on an object that exists, for real, so far away and moving so fast that no living human will likely ever have direct contact with it. (Well, generally.) But you\u2019re also wishing on a metaphor.