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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?

RosieandherMaw Fri 28-Nov-25 20:06:23

argymargy

Oh Cariad you really shouldn't believe everything you read.

Hear, hear.
What a load of —tosh— Chinese Whispers we have had on this thread.
I’d like to think everybody was writing tongue in cheek but I have a dreadful suspicion not all were!

Greenfinch Fri 28-Nov-25 20:39:26

Agree with Rosie. I really didn’t think there would be any replies on this thread let alone 4 pages ! Unbelievable!

Maremia Sat 29-Nov-25 09:20:05

Seriously, at this time of year, you don't all know who is zooming towards us on his intergalactic, ice cold sleigh?

Allira Sat 29-Nov-25 10:43:34

Maremia

Seriously, at this time of year, you don't all know who is zooming towards us on his intergalactic, ice cold sleigh?

😁

GrannyGravy13 Sat 29-Nov-25 11:22:50

🎅🏻 my money’s on this guy 🎁🎁🎁

Allira Sat 29-Nov-25 13:06:04

First to see him claims 🎁

Ps the Man Himself, not just the sleigh passing over in the sky, which the DGD and I have actually witnessed before. 🦌

EkwaNimitee Sat 29-Nov-25 15:18:39

Do a search on Wikipedia for 31/ATLAS and you’ll find a long, interesting scientific article about….all the data you could possibly need to determine that…..it’s nothing to do with aliens or a certain fat gentleman clad in red!!

Maremia Sat 29-Nov-25 16:52:40

Spoilsport! Am I allowed to say that?

CariadAgain Sat 29-Nov-25 17:20:06

By now - you name it and I'm cynical about it - and that includes Wikipedia - as there has been quite a few instances of it being "got at" I gather over the years. So who knows?

Add - if anyone has lived 2020 onwards with open eyes and ears = we know just how many ways things aren't told "as they are" - with the package of lies we've been fed for those last 5 years at a rate of knots.

Time will tell.......and we should have a better idea of what to think by the end of December.

SueEH Sat 29-Nov-25 22:39:51

Personally I believe in dark forest theory and think we should keep very very quiet!

Allira Sat 29-Nov-25 22:44:58

SueEH

Personally I believe in dark forest theory and think we should keep very very quiet!

😲 Every day's a schooldays on GN!

CariadAgain Sat 29-Nov-25 22:49:01

Sue - That had me doing a quick check to see if Dark Forest Theory is what I think it would be - and it is.

To me I've often thought it's a rather daft idea that we sent out those probes deliberately looking for other civilisations out there. Feels like "duh slap head smilie" time to do that. If we can see that on our own planet we've got some very nasty people and rather a lot of them - so much so that we can be toodling along peacefully minding our own business and yet one of these characters feels like being deliberately nasty or worse to us and attacks us = then surely all the more so we don't head out into space signalling "Hi folks - we're here. So come and say hello". We might land up with meeting up with Others and having a nice chatty time thank you and improving our very primitive basic technology that we have - but, on the other hand, we could meet "an Earth nasty x 10" and get a very negative response.

Yep....dark forest indeed...

Though who could blame any aliens hiding from us for doing so - as I often try and figure out what proportion of Earthlings are nasty and it is noticeable that we do have that issue....