New Interstellar Object Could be Alien

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Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered object in space.

While most think it's a comet, one man says it may be proof of alien life — and he's a Harvard University astrophysicist Prof. Avi Loeb who says this newly discovered space object may be proof of alien life

Could it please be an alien that stops fascism...I'd welcome them. I'd welcome David Bowies Starman in the Sky if the star man will stop fascism.

Sweetleaf, Human beings are genetically 50,000 yrs old, we are closely related to one another. to an alien humans appear to choose to be selfish and dangerous to each other like a family who choose to turn on one another in domestic turmoil.

education does not help much. In school kids chose to pretend in class they didn't want to know about other cultures or geography but mysteriously ace their exams. Once school is finished they become selectively ignorant again. Highly intelligent smart Germans chose to became Nazis. Highly intelligent smart Americans chose to become MAGAs. Aliens are not going to be able do much to help.

an intelligent person does not vote to foul his own nest, which is what the maga movement has voted to do, arguably. perhaps the brightest among them could be deemed clever, but surely not intelligent, if the term is defined to mean "revealing or reflecting good judgment or sound thought."

Ooooohhh, aliens! It's always aliens! Little green men, purple people eaters, Space Invaders!! ! And of course, being aliens absolutely for sure definitely, they are all for sure definitely absolutely EEEEVIL!! ! The human race is DOOOMED!! ! It's a cookbook! No peace. Die!! ! Kneel before Zod!

^^^ All bets are in


In addition to being only the third interstellar object ever detected entering our solar system, from outside, the actual trajectory it's taking will pull it into the orbit of Jupiter, Mars and the sun which has a mathematical probability of 1 in 20,000.

two further questions that need to be asked is 1. Does it have a comet tail? and 2. Shape and composition?

In addition the speed (221,000 kilometers per hour) and size (11km) is highly unusual. It will reach the Sun/earth by end of October. estimates for the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs range from 10-15km indicating this object is a civilisation killer (which now isn't so funny).

Current predictions suggest if the "object" stays on course it will be on the opposite side of the sun away from the earth (which is incredibly fortunate).

Avi Loeb is 100% correct, NASA need to throw a probe to monitor the object (which they currently have no plans). Loeb is saying 50/50 whether its alien tech or natural. either way it clearly poses a risk to earth.

Ok it's not a comet...and it's 20km wide, looking more and more mysterious

Atlas 31 Definitely not a comet (no tail), it's glowing halo in front so may have it's own energy source
It's speed indicates it's accelerating
It's trajectory is taking it into orbit of Jupiter, Mars and the Sun


Really really odd, looking like it's under intelligent control

even if it's natural, it may well cause havoc we can't prevent

Oh dear, will pass too close to Mars for comfort in 12 days
https://universemagazine.com/en/interst ... XRUTsws1iI

You worry way, way, way too much.

That far out, there has been absolutely no reason to expect to see a tail since there is little solar wind to form a tail. That said, it is now close enough to start forming a tail and that is just what it is doing.



From https://www.sciencealert.com/images-show-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-is-now-growing-a-tail:

^^^ even if it's a comet, 2million km near Mars is too close for comfort

That doesn't mean that it was targeted to approach Mars. It would be impossible for any remote civilization around other stars to be able to launch an object of any size so precisely as to approach any particular planet around a distant solar system.

But the probability of a natural object trajectory skirting Jupiter, Mars and the Sun in such close tangents is apparently 0.02%. the truth is we know nothing about the nature of interstellar objects (this is only the 3rd we know off) and despite assurances this is your regular everyday run in the mill comet, it's size, composition, chemical fingerprint and trajectory is unusual.

Where did I claim that this is an every day run of the mill comet? I have no doubt that is is traversing our solar system rather than orbiting within our solar system.

It's trajectory is obviously different. It is traveling too fast to be in orbit around the sun. Nobody is disputing that.

As for composition, it does appear to be different than our local comets. But then, since it is not a local comet, it seems quite reasonable that the composition can be much different.

As for the probability of its path, there is nothing unusual about it.
As for size, comets come in a wide range of diameters from a few meters on up. Our largest local comet is estimated to have a diameter of at least 100 kilometers. 3I/Atlas is estimated to be most likely less than a kilometer in diameter. There is nothing unusual about 3I/Atlas's size.