‘Possibly hostile’ alien threat detected in unknown interstellar object

[xconvoyx]

28 mile diameter?! 3I Atlas MUCH bigger and stranger than we thought, according to NASA study!


3I Atlas keeps throwing us new curves. A new NASA study, driven by a cutting edge space telescope, has revealed that 3I Atlas is not only stranger than we thought, but utterly colossal as well!

[Oldcarpy2]

28 mile diameter?! 3I Atlas MUCH bigger and stranger than we thought, according to NASA study![Video: https://youtu.be/Uv7XBm5XbtY?si=txVoe1Iwf_DTEQ8k]

3I Atlas keeps throwing us new curves. A new NASA study, driven by a cutting edge space telescope, has revealed that 3I Atlas is not only stranger than we thought, but utterly colossal as well!

Death Star!

[Darkorange]

unfortunately, the civilization who sent it, no longer either cares or exists.

Reading latest news that suggest, path the object is originating from near the center of our galaxy. Meaning it was travelling for 800 million years.

Either it is a time capsule with civilization's message or a comet.

[NoCorruptionAllowed]

Interesting take by John Walson using Hubble data to base an analysis on this object.

[guyfriday]

I just want to put this out there:



I mean it's not out of the range of possibilities that a Dyson sphere inhabiting alien race could have figured out that dumping their garbage in outer space is a great way to rid themselves of it.

[AlienSun]

I just deleted a short thread mentioning an interesting angle that was provoked by revelations we can get from the recent release of The Telegraph Tapes which virtually proved that our souls never die.  We simply move on to a higher plane.

In 1882 a New York dentist wrote on an early typewriter a "bible" book called the Oahspe.  He claimed to only be the conduit, not the originator.  One aspect of the book that I never forgot was that the gods of our Universe traveled in massive ships to planets where the inhabitants were failing in their assigned tasks.  The job of the ships were to collect the billions of new souls that were going to be freed from their physical bodies as those worlds shut down.  I know, I know, that concept defies most human cognition.  But then....

[xconvoyx]

Avi seeing aliens under the bed again. The old boy really doesn't know when to call it quits.

Could someone explain to me why, when a respected scientist finally takes the idea of life in outer space seriously (as I believe they all should), they become credulously obsessed by it? Loeb sees an alien spaceship in every passing space rock. Chandra Wickremasinghe, the panspermia guy, finds alien 'viruses' (that only he can see) in every meteorite he examines. What is it with these guys?

Avi never directly or outright called this alien/spaceship.
He just suggested we should never rule out the possibility of this object being “technological”, given that this object exhibits findings that challenges current scientific dogma on comets and asteroids.

Avi may be bordering on sensationalism with his numerous media appearances but this being alien was mainly blown out of proportion by click bait videos and news reports.

Meanwhile, NASA is still crickets on tasking the Mars Orbiter and Juno to intercept and look at this object. Also, the data from the August 2025 JWST observation will not be released to the public until three months after the observation date.

[guyfriday]

I just deleted a short thread mentioning an interesting angle that was provoked by revelations we can get from the recent release of The Telegraph Tapes which virtually proved that our souls never die.  We simply move on to a higher plane.

In 1882 a New York dentist wrote on an early typewriter a "bible" book called the Oahspe.  He claimed to only be the conduit, not the originator.  One aspect of the book that I never forgot was that the gods of our Universe traveled in massive ships to planets where the inhabitants were failing in their assigned tasks.  The job of the ships were to collect the billions of new souls that were going to be freed from their physical bodies as those worlds shut down.  I know, I know, that concept defies most human cognition.  But then....

well if we're failing then I place the blame on them for not leaving better instructions or dictates. Even in the big three religions there isn't any kind of instructions left for us to do anything.

[Mantiss2021]

No real worries until/unless it begins to de-accelerate.

Then we'll know, for certain, that our "ticket has just been punched",

For better or worse.

[xconvoyx]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been analyzing insights from Webb’s data, and a preprint is available online.

Preprint of our article submitted to ApJ Letters on 2025-08-25, describing the first results from our JWST NIRSpec campaign for 3I/ATLAS, at an inbound heliocentric distance of 3.32 au.