3 i Atlas

[Roma]

Anyone figured out what speed its traveling and how soon it should reach Earth if it's heading our way?

Last I saw they were saying sometime in November.  That gives us about a month or so...

[chr0naut]

Refugees don't go to other countries and waive their homeland flag.

Invaders Do.

Of course they do. People retain their heritage. I am sure that they love their friends and family and the world they grew up with, even if it has gone wrong for them recently.

Americans go to other countries and wave their flag. All the time!

Are they invaders?

Your slogan only makes sense to nationalist bigots who want to believe that the poor and oppressed from small countries are trying to invade one of the most militant, powerful and wealthy countries in the world.

The real danger to the citizens of the USA is from within - from its leaders with agendas that favour no one but themselves.

[David64]

.....ok ?

[David64]

Of course they do. People retain their heritage. I am sure that they love their friends and family and the world they grew up with, even if it has gone wrong for them recently.

Americans go to other countries and wave their flag. All the time!

Are they invaders?

Your slogan only makes sense to nationalist bigots who want to believe that the poor and oppressed from small countries are trying to invade one of the most militant, powerful and wealthy countries in the world.

The real danger to the citizens of the USA is from within - from its leaders with agendas that favour no one but themselves.

Tell ya what, since that comment and my answer are WAY off topic, why don't you start a thread and we'll go from there.

Game on ?

[BeyondKnowledge]

If it is a ship and there are aliens controlling it, they are waiting for it to be on the far side of the Sun to do a braking thrust. This is assuming they know we are here and don't want to show off their engines or need the Sun to protect Earth from the radiation form the engine burn.

We will have to wait to see how it comes around the Sun for answers.

[David64]

Wouldn't that be great ?
We actually get to see aliens in our lifetime. I've been a huge fan of scifi my whole life and dreamed of the day we finally get to meet intelligent life from another civilization.

[BeyondKnowledge]

Another odd thing is the arrival direction of 3I/ATLAS is aligned to within 9 degrees with the “Wow Signal” from August 15, 1977. 

To this day the “Wow Signal” has never been figured out.

Ok, 9 degrees off from the "wow"  source makes it 15 light years if at 100 ly distance, 155 ly at 1000 ly distance. Eather is a very long way apart from eachother.

But as everyone knows, nothing in space travels in a straight line. It is always curving according to the gravity of any bodies it is near. This makes any speculation for it possibly coming from the "wow"  source irrelevant. Also, it would be necessary to know where the "wow"  source was when it was launched to indicate any significance. 

If this object is the "wow" source itself, then it is doing a very good ventriloquist act making it seem around 9 degrees off.

[BeyondKnowledge]

Wouldn't that be great ?
We actually get to see aliens in our lifetime. I've been a huge fan of scifi my whole life and dreamed of the day we finally get to meet intelligent life from another civilization.

Even if they find humans yummy or want their planet back from the human infestation?

[David64]

Wouldn't it throw off trajectories if they performed a "slingshot maneuver " ?

Come in at angle to a star for instance and leave at an entirely different one ?

[David64]

Even if they find humans yummy or want their planet back from the human infestation?