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  • ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TOD

    From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Fri Oct 31 14:30:58 2025
    Subject: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun
    TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15238359/Interstellar-visitor-3I-ATLAS-sun-TODAY.html

    ?The mysterious interstellar visitor passing through our solar system
    has reached the sun, and what happens next will reveal if it's an
    ordinary comet or a spacecraft.?

    ?As the massive object dubbed 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to our
    sun on Wednesday, many scientists believe it will begin to break up like
    a normal comet does under extreme heat.?

    "However, if 3I/ATLAS remains intact and maneuvers away from the sun, it
    would be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, just like manmade
    spacecraft use rocket engines to veer away from objects in the solar
    system."

    ?Wednesday's critical milestone is called the˙perihelion, with the
    object moving approximately 126million miles away from the sun, which
    also marks the halfway point of 3I/ATLAS' journey through our solar system.?

    "Harvard physicist Avi Loeb called today's move towards the sun 'the
    acid test of 3I/ATLAS'."

    ?Currently, the object is unusually heavy, weighing approximately
    33billion tons, has an oddly flat shape like a pancake, and has a
    surface covered in nickel.?

    Alien spacecraft. Big sucker at 33 billion tons. Probably uses nukes
    for propulsion.

    Lynn


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  • From Scott Lurndal@3:633/10 to All on Fri Oct 31 20:33:32 2025
    Subject: Re: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
    ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun
    TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

    'NASA has been studying the icy visitor 3I/ATLAS with
    space telescopes including Hubble, Webb, and SPHEREx.
    When the comet passes Mars on Oct. 3, multiple spacecraft
    there might catch a glimpse. The comet is on course to pass
    behind the Sun in late October, and venture past Jupiter in
    March 2026, on its way out of our solar system.'

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  • From Cryptoengineer@3:633/10 to All on Fri Oct 31 20:48:19 2025
    Subject: Re: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    On 10/31/2025 3:30 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun
    TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15238359/Interstellar- visitor-3I-ATLAS-sun-TODAY.html

    ?The mysterious interstellar visitor passing through our solar system
    has reached the sun, and what happens next will reveal if it's an
    ordinary comet or a spacecraft.?

    ?As the massive object dubbed 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to our
    sun on Wednesday, many scientists believe it will begin to break up like
    a normal comet does under extreme heat.?

    "However, if 3I/ATLAS remains intact and maneuvers away from the sun, it would be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, just like manmade spacecraft use rocket engines to veer away from objects in the solar system."

    ?Wednesday's critical milestone is called the˙perihelion, with the
    object moving approximately 126million miles away from the sun, which
    also marks the halfway point of 3I/ATLAS' journey through our solar
    system.?

    "Harvard physicist Avi Loeb called today's move towards the sun 'the
    acid test of 3I/ATLAS'."

    ?Currently, the object is unusually heavy, weighing approximately
    33billion tons, has an oddly flat shape like a pancake, and has a
    surface covered in nickel.?

    Alien spacecraft.˙ Big sucker at 33 billion tons.˙ Probably uses nukes
    for propulsion.

    This is a good example of why the Daily Mail gets dissed as a source.
    This is written for maximum drama, rather than truth.

    'extreme heat' 'acid test' - lets get real. Earth is a lot closer
    to the sun than this comet gets at perihelion. It's 126 million
    miles from the sun. Earth is at 93 million. The Parker Solar
    Probe gets withing 4.3 million.

    Comet Atlas did *not* perform an Oberth maneuver at perihelion,
    which Loeb and other UFOlogists expected it to do.

    pt


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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Fri Oct 31 23:32:25 2025
    Subject: Re: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    On 10/31/2025 7:48 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
    On 10/31/2025 3:30 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun
    TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15238359/Interstellar-
    visitor-3I-ATLAS-sun-TODAY.html

    ?The mysterious interstellar visitor passing through our solar system
    has reached the sun, and what happens next will reveal if it's an
    ordinary comet or a spacecraft.?

    ?As the massive object dubbed 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to
    our sun on Wednesday, many scientists believe it will begin to break
    up like a normal comet does under extreme heat.?

    "However, if 3I/ATLAS remains intact and maneuvers away from the sun,
    it would be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, just like manmade
    spacecraft use rocket engines to veer away from objects in the solar
    system."

    ?Wednesday's critical milestone is called the˙perihelion, with the
    object moving approximately 126million miles away from the sun, which
    also marks the halfway point of 3I/ATLAS' journey through our solar
    system.?

    "Harvard physicist Avi Loeb called today's move towards the sun 'the
    acid test of 3I/ATLAS'."

    ?Currently, the object is unusually heavy, weighing approximately
    33billion tons, has an oddly flat shape like a pancake, and has a
    surface covered in nickel.?

    Alien spacecraft.˙ Big sucker at 33 billion tons.˙ Probably uses nukes
    for propulsion.

    This is a good example of why the Daily Mail gets dissed as a source.
    This is written for maximum drama, rather than truth.

    'extreme heat' 'acid test' - lets get real. Earth is a lot closer
    to the sun than this comet gets at perihelion. It's 126 million
    miles from the sun. Earth is at 93 million. The Parker Solar
    Probe gets withing 4.3 million.

    Comet Atlas did *not* perform an Oberth maneuver at perihelion,
    which Loeb and other UFOlogists expected it to do.

    pt

    Dude, you are taking the fun out of my trolling !

    Lynn


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  • From Thomas Koenig@3:633/10 to All on Sat Nov 1 07:58:59 2025
    Subject: Re: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> schrieb:
    ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun
    TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15238359/Interstellar-visitor-3I-ATLAS-sun-TODAY.html

    ?The mysterious interstellar visitor passing through our solar system
    has reached the sun, and what happens next will reveal if it's an
    ordinary comet or a spacecraft.?

    "has reached the Sun" at 1.3 AU. Sure.

    ?As the massive object dubbed 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to our
    sun on Wednesday, many scientists believe it will begin to break up like
    a normal comet does under extreme heat.?

    Extreme heat at 1.3 AU. Sure.

    [...]

    Alien spacecraft. Big sucker at 33 billion tons. Probably uses nukes
    for propulsion.

    Much more clever: It uses gravity. There's enough of it to go
    around, and the technology to use it is very easy - planets and
    other bodis in our solar system have used it for billions of years.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@3:633/10 to All on Sat Nov 1 10:25:16 2025
    Subject: Re: ?Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS makes mysterious move toward the sun TODAY in a cosmic turning point?

    Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

    Much more clever: It uses gravity. There's enough of it to go
    around, and the technology to use it is very easy - planets and
    other bodis in our solar system have used it for billions of years.

    Gravity is much too dangerous for everyday use. All the time people get injured falling off of ladders and buildings. It should be banned.
    Nobody needs pendulum clocks anymore anyway.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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