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A visitor from deep space is racing through our solar system, and it is behaving so strangely that it’s challenging everything we know about comets. This object, the third known interstellar visitor, is named 3I/ATLAS.
As it passed its closest point to the Sun (perihelion) on October 29, 2025, new data revealed shocking behaviour. It suddenly became five times brighter and, most perplexingly, it is showing non-gravitational acceleration. It’s being pushed.
Famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has warned that ‘something strange’ is happening. At a distance of 206 million kilometres from the Sun, something other than gravity is propelling 3I/ATLAS. Scientists found two kinds of motion: one directly away from the Sun and another, sideways, with no vertical movement. More
It’s a comet with a strange tail and that has a lot of experts scratching their heads.
NASA isn’t being very helpful. Here
The probe is searching for signs of intelligent life.
Apparently, it seems to have passed us by.
…gee, I wonder why?
Propulsive out-gassing.
It has gas.
Or, as Lieutenant Uhura pointed out, “Well, the thing’s got to have a tail pipe!”
Either that, or the standard answer from the Standard Model of Particle Physics:
“Little green men.”
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Left a blue Sign
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Or Fresher Flanders Fonder
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“Rendezvous with Rama”
Why can’t Neil Tyson figure it out? He’s the smartest guy around.
Neil Tyson is only ten (anagram)
Someone noticed that it has already rolled up the windows and locked the doors in preparation to cruise by Earth in the middle of December…
The LGM crew are speeding up so when they fly past the Earth they’ll be harder for the squeegee gangs to mob them, also harder to cometjack.
Who doesn’t like some strange tail? 🧜♀️
Sure it could be an alien something or other. Or it could simply be something scientists nowadays don’t seem to want to admit exists – something new they know absolutely nothing about.
“…sideways, with no vertical movement.”
This was not written by anyone that should be allowed to write about this subject.
After we’ve been probing the solar system and beyond for a few decades now, the universe decided to probe us.
It’s Karma.
“It suddenly became five times brighter and, most perplexingly, it is showing non-gravitational acceleration. It’s being pushed. …Something other than gravity is propelling it. Scientists found two kinds of motion: one directly away from the Sun and another, sideways, with no vertical movement.”
HMMMMM….Sideways….just like a drunk wino with an empty bottle of cheap Merlot.
“Avi Loeb”. Yea, NO. It’s a Predator dropping in to see the new Predator movie. Who is now a good person er ah predator with a really hot torn in half woman strapped to his back. I think I’ll Pasadena on that.
I discovered 3I/ATLAS.