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So - what do we all think it is? 3I/ATLAS

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CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 08:38:40

So a global team of scientists are going to be closely tracking it for two months - as from today.

.....and they're still telling us it's just a comet - even though our planetary defences are about to go up.

All sorts of signs that it isn't a comet - eg changing track at intervals being the main one I guess.

Latest official photo a complete blur - but various amateurs have taken much better ones (ie that show it isn't just a comet). So how are we supposed to trust Earth scientists - when even amateurs are taking better photos than they are and it does seem odd just how bad NASA's photos are?

All sorts of theories coming out - on top of the pretty obvious official "It's a comet". Yeah right.....

My own personal take = it's an interplanetary probe. It's been ducking and diving near our adjacent planets (changing course to do so) and come next month it's our turn.

Makes sense to me - as obviously there are going to be loads of other species out there and lots of them will be more advanced than we are (technology-wise and/or as "people"). We ain't the only cookies on the plate.

To me - as a race as a whole we are very very primitive indeed. There's no doubt of that - considering the number of wars/amount of personal violence/amount of crime going on on Earth just how primitive we are as a race as a whole and it makes total sense to see how primitive our technology still is and, more to the point, how primitive we are generally as a species. Who wouldn't keep an eye on a primitive, aggressive race that was now technologically advanced enough it could manage to launch some spacecraft etc off Earth?

If I were any other species out there in space = I'd be keeping a darn close eye on us too in those circumstances and, seeing all those wars going on, would regard us as a threat. I do hope all nearby resident aliens realise there are some of us that are more advanced/nicer than all these warmongers etc we have on this planet.

Thoughts?

Sago Thu 27-Nov-25 08:54:44

My husband got chatting to a guy that worked for NASA on a flight. (We checked him out he was genuine)

He asked him if there were other signs of life out there.
He said most definitely and that many were living amongst us.

CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 09:11:15

I'm not going to say "no" to that thought either Sago - ie there might be ones living amongst us. So the jury is still out in my mind on that front. I certainly agree UFO's are visiting our planet at intervals. It may be that some occupants have figured out how to disguise themselves to look like us and there would be a logic in keeping an eye on such a primitive/warlike species as we are at close quarters (ie a spy amongst us to assess the chances of what might get lobbed off our planet in their direction).

Fascinated to know if you have any details on "many were living amongst us" - ie how many/how to spot them/etc.

Sago Thu 27-Nov-25 10:03:21

Unfortunately no information although we have a family game “ the person most likely to be an alien”.
Politicians and London Mayors are up there!

RosieandherMaw Thu 27-Nov-25 10:06:51

Sago

My husband got chatting to a guy that worked for NASA on a flight. (We checked him out he was genuine)

He asked him if there were other signs of life out there.
He said most definitely and that many were living amongst us.

I’ve often thought “They live among us” too 🤣🤣

keepingquiet Thu 27-Nov-25 10:18:09

Glad it's not only me who thinks the aliens have been here for years and I'm not talking about foreigners.

What are our 'planetary defenses'?

I had a plastic ray-gun years ago.

CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 10:33:15

Sago

Unfortunately no information although we have a family game “ the person most likely to be an alien”.
Politicians and London Mayors are up there!

It's the eyes - I tell ya it's the eyes.

Not sure I'm joking sometimes - as I do study peoples eyes and "update" looks at them at intervals - after I had the very unnerving experience of seeing what I thought was a friend at the time (he's been binned since - because I discovered he was a thief and planning on having a large "steal" from me!!!!!) first thing of a morning - and his eyes had changed.

One of his eyes still looked normal - but the other one had turned absolutely completely black (totally not a normal eye by any stretch of the imagination). Cue for he denied it - when I asked why that had happened and was rubbishing what I had seen very clearly. Half an hour later and that eye was back to normal. That put the wind right up me as to why that had happened and he was denying it had.

It put the wind up me even more when I read a couple of articles subsequently that there are people who have normal eyes and then they change occasionally (both eyes at once in their case) and then they give the crime record of these people - ie they act normal sometimes but are evil and have just committed some awful crime (is psychopath the word I'm searching for here???).

I tell ya that unnerved me - though I didnt bin him until I realised he was after the info on my computer hard drive - and he was history two minutes later....

With you on some politicians and look into their eyes in photos etc too and sometimes really don't like what I see there and I have looked into the eyes of that London mayor and thought "Hmmmm....".

Elegran Thu 27-Nov-25 10:59:31

Maybe some of the trillionaires who are pulling trump's strings have found a sinister use for the "trip to the moon in a spaceship" celebrity deals and have chartered one, to suss out how to get even more international/interglobal power and wealth.

RosieandherMaw Thu 27-Nov-25 11:00:27

I have looked into the eyes of that London mayor and thought "Hmmmm...."
They indeed walk among us! hmmhmmhmm

GrannyGravy13 Thu 27-Nov-25 11:02:41

Blimey 🤦‍♀️

Allira Thu 27-Nov-25 11:06:03

I'm sure aliens visited the earth at one point but I'm not sure why any alien species would find us a threat because we're really still rather primitive and barely into space travel yet. We've not even managed to send anyone to our nearest planet although I understand Musk would like to go and Mars is welcome to him.

nanna8 Thu 27-Nov-25 11:10:40

If their eyes look odd I assume they are on drugs, either prescription ones or illegal ones.

Sparklefizz Thu 27-Nov-25 11:17:02

Sago

My husband got chatting to a guy that worked for NASA on a flight. (We checked him out he was genuine)

He asked him if there were other signs of life out there.
He said most definitely and that many were living amongst us.

I think I married one!! grin

Allira Thu 27-Nov-25 11:18:56

Since it was first spotted in July, the object – dubbed 3I/ATLAS – has captivated scientists and internet users alike, even prompting Kim Kardashian to ask NASA for answers.
😂
And unfortunately for alien hunters, the US space agency says that 3I/ATLAS is a comet.
DM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

Babs03 Thu 27-Nov-25 11:32:24

I would never be arrogant enough to believe that life can’t exist on other planets in other galaxies, those life forms might not be the same as here on Earth, could just be very rudimentary but certainly great minds have studied this, especially string theory or the multiverse theory and they would certainly not rule it out.
But I do believe this is a comet which is still of concern if it comes too close to us.

Daddima Thu 27-Nov-25 11:42:40

Sago

Unfortunately no information although we have a family game “ the person most likely to be an alien”.
Politicians and London Mayors are up there!

Barron Trump for me! I think he has a very odd look about him.

CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 11:48:05

nanna8

If their eyes look odd I assume they are on drugs, either prescription ones or illegal ones.

I know the blank-eyed look of a druggie. Was a bit startled the first time I saw that - but came to realise what it meant.

One of my salutary experiences in Denmark at 20 years old - I asked the Danish woman I was walking off to have lunch with "What's going on?" re the young couple walking (or, to be more accurate, stumbling along towards us) and with eyes like that and got a blunt "Drugs!" response back. That taught me all I needed to know about whether I was going to try them or no - I didnt.

CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 11:50:55

Allira

^Since it was first spotted in July, the object – dubbed 3I/ATLAS – has captivated scientists and internet users alike, even prompting Kim Kardashian to ask NASA for answers.^
😂
And unfortunately for alien hunters, the US space agency says that 3I/ATLAS is a comet.
DM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS

They would do - wouldnt they? LOL

I've lost count of how many - shall we call it "terminological exactitudes" is the phrase I think I want (or "lies" as we know them).

But - I was certainly studying the respective photos this morning thinking "There does need to be some reason for NASA's latest photos being as blurry as heck" and "Everyone else's are a lot more precise/clear".....as that is odd....

CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 11:51:48

"terminological INexactitudes"...

petra Thu 27-Nov-25 12:15:14

RosieandherMaw

Sago

My husband got chatting to a guy that worked for NASA on a flight. (We checked him out he was genuine)

He asked him if there were other signs of life out there.
He said most definitely and that many were living amongst us.

I’ve often thought “They live among us” too 🤣🤣

Your not wrong there 😂

Visgir1 Thu 27-Nov-25 12:16:15

I agree we are surely not arrogant enough to think Earth is the only Planet with inhabitants? If Aliens are here I reckon they are Cats, where even you go in the World they are always there watching you 🤣🐱

Scribbles Thu 27-Nov-25 12:25:07

I'd never heard of 31/ATLAS until now but this thread has made diverting reading for my coffee break. 😃

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CariadAgain Thu 27-Nov-25 13:05:45

Scribbles

I'd never heard of 31/ATLAS until now but this thread has made diverting reading for my coffee break. 😃

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Article about the latest "official" state of play in today's available articles in the "Daily Mail".

But yep the videos have been up there - both official and unofficial - for months on YouTube. NASA following the progress and other scientists and interested onlookers doing so.

Probably an example of a lot of the most important news takes quite some doing/if ever to get onto the mainstream media. We wouldnt know for instance that a huge capital city is in the process of being evacuated currently - Iran's capital city of 10 million people if we only saw the mainstream media. Reason - shortage of water (and with that goes other facilities too). Why it happened? - lots of dam building in the wrong places from what I can make out. But - yep....they are admitting to trying to find some clouds to "seed" the last I heard - to try and get some water. I've only spotted it on foreign news channels - but it's a major major event!!!!

Would love to offer them some of the surplus water we have here in Wales - rain...yet more rain....so often here.

keepingquiet Thu 27-Nov-25 13:08:12

Visgir1

I agree we are surely not arrogant enough to think Earth is the only Planet with inhabitants? If Aliens are here I reckon they are Cats, where even you go in the World they are always there watching you 🤣🐱

I'm not sure it is arrogance that we think we're alone in the Universe- so far it is the reality.

On Sky at Night recently an astonomer said interstellar travel takes so long that any alien from another planet coming to Earth will find it uninhabited as it was for millenia before we appeared in space time, a very short time ago.

So we may not be alone but we're certainly not going to be found probably until the sun has gone super nova and we're gone, or we haven't even been!

Retread Thu 27-Nov-25 13:24:16

I very, very seldom lose my temper, but when I do, it's a tsunami and my family all say my eyes turn black ... 👀🐼👽