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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?
CariadAgain
Or, more to the point, change course - again and this time to head nearer to us. We have no idea what their technology is like - other than probably/almost certainly a lot more advanced than ours is.
Whatever makes you so sure?
Comets are a natural phenomenon - not a civilisation!
CariadAgain
Scribbles
I'd never heard of 31/ATLAS until now but this thread has made diverting reading for my coffee break. 😃
👽👽👽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.
I’ve heard several reports of the water problem in Iran on Radio 4 for some weeks.
That’s a British radio station 🤷♀️
I tend to regard these sorts of conspiracy theories propounded by people on YouTube and the like as having more to do with getting themselves money-related 'clicks' or 'likes' or whatever than simply portraying the less alarming facts. Of course 'a global team of scientists' are going to be tracking this comet: it's what they do.
I think if there is anyone/anything watching us, they must think what a horrible species we are - not content with killing each other, we are destroying our home, which is not just our home but the home to every other species.
What, comets?
Frozen gases, rock and dust have advanced technologies?
Or, more to the point, change course - again and this time to head nearer to us. We have no idea what their technology is like - other than probably/almost certainly a lot more advanced than ours is.
CariadAgain
Homestead62
No idea what it is.
Homework for the day then....it's due at its nearest point to Earth in mid-December.
Which will be approximately 270 million kilometers or 170 million miles at its nearest point to Earth.
Of course, the aliens could parachute down.
👽👽👽
Homestead62
No idea what it is.
Homework for the day then....it's due at its nearest point to Earth in mid-December.
Retread
I very, very seldom lose my temper, but when I do, it's a tsunami and my family all say my eyes turn black ... 👀🐼👽
Errrrm...thanks all the same - but I'll pass on a meet-up.....LOL.
I guess everyone can be glad that neither of my tempers are like that then. I have my fathers Viking temper (as I call it) and can see ahead/see likely dangerpoints/have probably already dealt with them and "cut them off at the chase" and don't expect any change of viewpoint for years - bar big genuine apologies...and yep...he was armed forces too. So if someone has deserved something = well I wouldnt be them...
and I've got my mothers Celtic one - flash and flare and dinnerplates or something have been known to get thrown against nearest wall rather firmly. I saw my mother throwing and my father ducking and people have heard me throwing (glass bottles or bottles in my case) and it's "dive for the floor" outa the way....
Vast majority of people still don't believe I've got even one of those tempers - but those who've seen one of them....would tell them rather differently....
There's more danger here on Earth.
No idea what it is.
I very, very seldom lose my temper, but when I do, it's a tsunami and my family all say my eyes turn black ... 👀🐼👽
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!
Scribbles
I'd never heard of 31/ATLAS until now but this thread has made diverting reading for my coffee break. 😃
👽👽👽
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.
I'd never heard of 31/ATLAS until now but this thread has made diverting reading for my coffee break. 😃
👽👽👽
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 🤣🐱
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 😂
"terminological INexactitudes"...
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....
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.
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.
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.
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
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!! 
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