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3I atlas is going behind the sun on October 29th !! it is being led by 9 shiny objects !! 3I Atlas is going to meet up with C 2025 R2 Swan . It is unknown what to expect when they come out from behind the sun.

Also, it has been proven by scientists that the famous "wow" signal that Seti received in 1977 came from exactly where 3I Atlas was at that time !!


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A good overview of what is known about the interstellar visitor, with mentions of Prof. Loeb's speculations:

https://starwalk.space/en/news/3i-atlas-interstellar-object

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@mlb62 said
3I atlas is going behind the sun on October 29th !! it is being led by 9 shiny objects !! 3I Atlas is going to meet up with C 2025 R2 Swan . It is unknown what to expect when they come out from behind the sun.

Also, it has been proven by scientists that the famous "wow" signal that Seti received in 1977 came from exactly where 3I Atlas was at that time !!
I assume you believe it is some kind of advanced vehicle sent to spy on us dangerous humans and we have to be kept in check by these aliens so we never figure out how to go interstellar and pollute ever more planets around nearby stars.

Think about the requirements of an interstellar probe.
The ability to steer, vectored thrust to change directions and accelerate or decel. This craft is showing none of that AND if it were a manned probe, "manned'' with aliens, but it would be VERY bad to lose so much viable mass, water, CO2, and the like blowing off the comet as we speak coming as close to the sun roughly the same as Mars to the sun so the surface is getting hot enough to cause a tail but this time, a tail pointing directly at the sun and making a tail pointing TOWARDS the sun because solar rays impinge on the front and the front end blows water and other molecules straight towards the sun.
That would be bad news for any organic life form inside who would presumably want to conserve water if they were made anywhere near us, we are some 70% water.
It is going 60 Km/sec, Solar escape velocity is 45 Km/sec so Atlas is going bye bye, never to get close to the solar system again.

If there was some kind of transmitter onboard, there would not be much signal left after plowing through hundreds of miles of ejecta.

And BTW, they calculated how much stuff is blown off the surface, clocks in somewhere around ONE HUNDRED TONS of material PER SECOND.
Not a good thing if it was artificial. Even if it was total AI it would still need water for cooling so BIG FLAG against an artificial probe.