On: Could 'Oumuamua be an icy fractal aggregate ejecte...

[Trombone12]

Uh, what? Plait makes the important point that the light curve is hard to explain without tumbling, and if the "sail" is tumbling the entire acceleration calculation presented in the paper is shit. Kind of a big deal.

[eof → Trombone12]

Light curve is hard to explain without tumbling, and my suggestion is it could be explained by the solar sail changing it's reflectiveness purposefully.

[Trombone12 → eof]

At that level of detail you could just be chanting "god did it" over and over, it comes out to about the same explanatory power.