3I/Atlas

[Carl in Michigan]

It’s literally the one and only “comet” to ever turn blue

Yeah, that was a "guess" by AI, but it think the most logical one. Still, there are so many strange things going on with this one

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yeah, that was a "guess" by AI, but it think the most logical one. Still, there are so many strange things going on with this one

Well if the blue color were the first and only anomaly that’s one thing, it’s the 9th!

• 1. Its retrograde trajectory is aligned to within 5 degrees with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun, with a likelihood of 0.2%.
• 2. During July and August 2025, it displayed a sunward jet (anti-tail) that is not an optical illusion from geometric perspective, unlike familiar comets.
• 3. Its nucleus is about a million times more massive than 1I/`Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than 2I/Borisov, while moving faster than both, altogether with a likelihood of less than 0.1%.
• 4. Its arrival time was fine-tuned to bring it within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion, with a likelihood of 0.005%.
• 5. Its gas plume contains much more nickel than iron (as found in industrially-produced nickel alloys) and a nickel to cyanide ratio that is orders of magnitude larger than that of all known comets, including 2I/Borisov, with a likelihood below 1%.
• 6. Its gas plume contains only 4% water by mass, a primary constituent of familiar comets.
• 7. It shows extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets, including 2I/Borisov, with a likelihood below 1%.
• 8. It arrived from a direction coincident with the radio “Wow! Signal” to within 9 degrees, with a likelihood of 0.6%.
• 9. Near perihelion, it brightened faster than any known comet and was bluer than the Sun.
• 10. It exhibits non-gravitational acceleration which requires massive evaporation of at least 13%of its mass, but preliminary post-perihelion images do not show evidence for it so far.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Might be the 11th anomaly

It now has jets in 7 different directions

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Yeah, that was a "guess" by AI, but it think the most logical one. Still, there are so many strange things going on with this one

Strange? Not really. Just somewhat new to us, because we don't get to study interstellar objects very often.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

And then there’s this

Zero trajectory variation

Natural comets have slight variations as a result of outgassing, but not 3I

 

[CrusaderFrank]

For those who want to believe this is a manned spacecraft, at its current velocity (152,000 mph), it would take 18,000 years to reach the nearest star

And by “manned” you mean that humans are the only technological beings in the Universe

Image a thousand years from now (or much less) we find a way to meld human awareness with Quantum superposition. Just as one example

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Most recent photo

Aaaaaaaaand the solar pointing anti-tail returns

This is after its closest approach to the Sun

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Aaaaaaaaand the solar pointing anti-tail returns

3I/ATLAS’s Anti-Tail Isn’t Unique

So, Avi’s latest is a long complaint about how unreasonable the scientific community is in dismissing his claims that 3I/ATLAS might be a spacecraft. He has a long analogy in it about seeing a bizarre creature walking down the road and having everyone try to gaslight you by saying it’s just a...

sites.psu.edu

Avi Loeb seems to be working hard to destroy his entire academic legacy.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

3I/ATLAS’s Anti-Tail Isn’t Unique

So, Avi’s latest is a long complaint about how unreasonable the scientific community is in dismissing his claims that 3I/ATLAS might be a spacecraft. He has a long analogy in it about seeing a bizarre creature walking down the road and having everyone try to gaslight you by saying it’s just a...

sites.psu.edu

Avi Loeb seems to be working hard to destroy his entire academic legacy.

Without NASAs HiRise photos the odds of 3I being a “comet” are about 1 in a million

That NASA is withholding photos from 3 separate satellites: HiRies, Psyche and GOES makes it very suspicious

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Without NASAs HiRise photos the odds of 3I being a “comet” are about 1 in a million

You just made that up, didn't you?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

And by “manned” you mean that humans are the only technological beings in the Universe

No, that's not what I meant. I meant OCCUPIED by intelligent life. But yeah we ARE the only technological PHYSICAL beings in the universe.

 

[MarathonMike]

Even more interesting than OompaLoompa, the mystery turd!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Sean Duffy of NASA saying dog ate our homework is why NASA hasn’t released photos of 3I taken from Mars HiRise after 6 weeks

These photos are potentially 3 times more detailed than the Hubble photos

 

[CrusaderFrank]

3I/ATLAS’s Anti-Tail Isn’t Unique

So, Avi’s latest is a long complaint about how unreasonable the scientific community is in dismissing his claims that 3I/ATLAS might be a spacecraft. He has a long analogy in it about seeing a bizarre creature walking down the road and having everyone try to gaslight you by saying it’s just a...

sites.psu.edu

Avi Loeb seems to be working hard to destroy his entire academic legacy.

He’s asking questions, that’s how science works

Does NASA or anyone have a better explanation?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You just made that up, didn't you?

I’m probably off by a few orders of magnitude. For example, theres a .02% chance of 3I entering within a few degrees of the ecliptic. There’s a 1/20000 chance that it passes close to 3 different planets. Those 2 chances together are about 1 in 100 million

Then it has an appearing and disappearing and reappearing anti tail

Then it has nickel with almost no iron, et. al

So yeah 1 in a million that’s it natural is really generous

 

[CrusaderFrank]

No, that's not what I meant. I meant OCCUPIED by intelligent life. But yeah we ARE the only technological PHYSICAL beings in the universe.

There’s a school of thought that some of the “aliens” we’ve encountered are synthesized vehicles that somehow contain an awareness from beings far away, basically assisted remote viewers

 

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-19-2021/ah7Lod.mp4


https://64.media.tumblr.com/30ea735a7c72ef4f5cf39a24717b925b/tumblr_ow96mdr2Sz1qj6sk2o1_540.gifv

 

[CrusaderFrank]

NASA, the dog that didn’t bark

NASA still hasn’t released the 3I photos from Mars HiRISE. They’ve released other photos from HiRISE but not these

Also NSA CLASSIFIED photos taken by a solar observatory satellite of 3I as it passed behind the Sun on the basis of national security

A natural comet you say??

 

[MarathonMike]

NASA, the dog that didn’t bark

NASA still hasn’t released the 3I photos from Mars HiRISE. They’ve released other photos from HiRISE but not these

Also NSA CLASSIFIED photos taken by a solar observatory satellite of 3I as it passed behind the Sun on the basis of national security

A natural comet you say??

Has NSA ever done that before with celestial phenomena?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Has NSA ever done that before with celestial phenomena?

The Face on Mars comes to mind but for a supposedly “natural comet”, not that I recall