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

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....

SueEH

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

😲 Every day's a schooldays on GN!

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

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.

Spoilsport! Am I allowed to say that?

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!!

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. 🦌

🎅🏻 my money’s on this guy 🎁🎁🎁

Maremia

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

😁

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

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

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!

Maybe some that are do...

I can certainly think of one person (ex bad neighbour) that might well be telling himself that - as he knows I know (didnt take that much figuring out) that he's a bankrupt. Followed by him giving me one heck of a filthy look in passing when he saw who I was talking to - which he may well have interpreted correctly as "She's just been told that my wife - official owner of their last house - had them both avoiding paying the estate agent their dues when they had sold "her" house for them" I expect the look on my face was a rather amused - and disapproving one - as I was probably very clearly thinking "Just how much else is he going to get up to? and I've just made a mental note added to the list about him".

CariadAgain
How do you know that people you mix with don’t consider you a lower person
It’s quite possible but you’ll never know, will you 🤷‍♀️

Where, CariadAgain, do you place youtself in the ‘Lower People’ hierarchy?

Allira

GrannyGravy13

CariadAgain lower level people ????

not quite people ????

That'll be most of us with Neanderthal DNA, probably.
The aliens will be the superior ones.

Will that be me out then - with the oldest blood group in the world? - ie blood group O (which is the most common one I gather and I think about 50% of us have got that one). Flippin' annoying whenever I look at the blood group diet info. and think "gotta be a load of old **" as it's telling me blood group O should eat a lot of meat - and there's no way that I'm going to start eating meat again (after about 40 years not doing so). I come before my body - obviously.

We do live in a world where untruth can spread like wildfire and we need to pay attention to reliable sources or we end up believing things which are not reality. I understand that if anyone reads a lot of people all sayin something is true it begins to feel more and more likely. But some things are not true and I have yet to see any convincing evidence that there are aliens living amongst us, or that this comet is a space ship.

Oreo

Oops x post Sarnia😁

Great minds, Oreo

Allira

Why?

We know it's a comet, as I pointed out it will be 170 million miles away when it passes so why be rational?

If we can't have some fun, it's a sad day on GN.

But some of us obviously don't. They seem to believe this stuff. No wonder there is so much anxiety around these days.

According to Professor Brian Cox:

Just to be clear - given recent drivel on line - Comet 3I/Atlas is a comet, made of carbon dioxide and water ices and bits of other stuff. It is entirely natural in origin, its orbit is as expected and it will whizz around the sun and then disappear off into the galaxy again

Well that’s a bit different from your interpretation Withnobson - bears more careful reading perhaps or it risks turning into Chinese whispers.

WithNobsOnIt

Been following this 3i/Atlas comet thing for a few weeks now and listening to Prof Brian Cox on YouTube.

He reckons if it is a comet it defies all the laws of energy and quantum physicswe know about.

I love it and really hope it is a close encounter of the third kind. As long as they have not come to completely destroy the planet.

We are doing a pretty job of that ourselves without any other help.

As for NASA. They do know what is going on but they seem to very quiet. Suspiciously so?

As for Aliens being amongst most definitely including all politicians.

👽👾🌠

xxx

According to Professor Brian Cox:

"Just to be clear - given recent drivel on line - Comet 3I/Atlas is a comet, made of carbon dioxide and water ices and bits of other stuff. It is entirely natural in origin, its orbit is as expected and it will whizz around the sun and then disappear off into the galaxy again."

To Sago - without doubt - Trump can't be human surely?

Allira

Maybe that's where he came from, and not South Africa!!

Bodach

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.

Yup, exactly this.

I love it and really hope it is a close encounter of the third kind. As long as they have not come to completely destroy the planet.

If they have the intelligence and technology for inter-stellar travel then they will just subjugate us and treat us as we've treated animals for centuries.