3 i Atlas

[Quantum12]

When I changed jobs after 16 years, I didn't have a lot of time for our old forum. When I finally did, it was gone. I did a lot of searching and finally came across here. Glad to be back, I've missed everyone.

Everyone missed you!

[Quantum12]

I did not know that we even had a planetary defense system on Earth. 

“Earth's planetary defenses will be taking aim at the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in just hours.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...mages.html

[David64]

I did not know that we even had a planetary defense system on Earth. 

“Earth's planetary defenses will be taking aim at the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in just hours.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...mages.html

It makes it sound like we have rail guns and lasers to destroy incoming objects, but it's just detection and tracking of anything that could pose a threat.

https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense/

[BeyondKnowledge]

I did not know that we even had a planetary defense system on Earth. 

“Earth's planetary defenses will be taking aim at the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in just hours.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...mages.html

The Daily Mail is a tabloid. All the news they care to make up.

[Kurokage]

The Daily Mail is a tabloid. All the news they care to make up.

Yes it's a tabloid, but the article written isn't 'Aliens Blasted Out The Sky'

It's a good starting point for anybody looking for info on 3i Atlas,

Starting on November 27, a global team of scientists with the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) will kick off a two–month campaign to track the comet as it nears our planet.
'While it poses no threat, comet 3I/ATLAS presents a great opportunity for the IAWN community to perform an observing exercise due to its prolonged observability from Earth and high interest to the scientific community,' the UN explains on its website. 
'This 3I/ATLAS campaign is the 8th IAWN observing exercise since 2017 – IAWN holds these exercises roughly once a year.'
While 3I/ATLAS was only discovered in July 2025, the UN explained that this 'comet campaign' has long been planned. 
'IAWN had been planning to do a Fall 2025 comet campaign since 2024 to exercise capabilities for measuring the position of comets, which pose additional astrometric challenges as they appear as fuzzy extended objects compared to point–like asteroids in a telescope's field of view,' it added. 

[Quantum12]

The Daily Mail is a tabloid. All the news they care to make up.

I had to look up “tabloid”

“A tabloid is 
either a smaller newspaper format than a broadsheet, or a type of journalism that is often sensationalistic and focuses on celebrity gossip, crime, and other dramatic topics. Tabloid-format newspapers are easier to handle and are often filled with many photographs and short, attention-grabbing stories. Tabloid journalism can appear in other media, such as television and online, and is a style that can be applied to a newspaper of any size”

[Quantum12]

It makes it sound like we have rail guns and lasers to destroy incoming objects, but it's just detection and tracking of anything that could pose a threat.

https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense/

 Ronald Reagan was right about “Star Wars.”

[Quantum12]

Still oddness from 3I/Atlas

https://usaherald.com/growing-anomalies-...le-rating/

[Roma]

Still oddness from 3I/Atlas

https://usaherald.com/growing-anomalies-...le-rating/

Is it still on track for a December 19 fly by?

[tellmethesecrets]

I had to look up “tabloid”

“A tabloid is 
either a smaller newspaper format than a broadsheet, or a type of journalism that is often sensationalistic and focuses on celebrity gossip, crime, and other dramatic topics. Tabloid-format newspapers are easier to handle and are often filled with many photographs and short, attention-grabbing stories. Tabloid journalism can appear in other media, such as television and online, and is a style that can be applied to a newspaper of any size”

Tabloids mostly make shit up/twist things for attention grabbing headlines, relying on the fact that readers won't do their own research and take the tabloid as gospel.

(I'm going to go off topic here but I don't expect any responses so it won't derail!)

I learnt never to trust a tabloid after the "Johnny Depp Wifebeater" headlines.  I shamelessly believed them all given his drink/drug history (how very narrow minded of me, I know.  I'm ashamed) and then during lockdown I had enough spare time to read all of the transcripts from the UK trial and I was horrified I was suckered in by the tabloids, and alarmed at the amount of other people that would also be naive to the headlines.

Side Note:  Other major headlines off the top of my head that I've since researched and changed my mind on:

Cliff Richard home raid - I think they were just discrediting this guy as he knew too much from his close friend Jill Dando
Madeline McCann - I don't believe the parents did it
Michael Jackson (obvious one there)
Oscar Pistorious (spelling?) - I believe that was just an unfortunate accident 

It's glaringly obvious - once you've woken up - to see how headlines, statements are twisted to the tabloids gain.  Think "TMZ" or "Perez Hilton"