Paper: Is the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?

[Approaching Infinity]

I was interested to see if any electric universe people have shared thoughts on Atlas. James McCanney has posted a couple updates over the last month. No update yet commenting on the latest findings, but here they are:

He says it is moving too fast to acquire a tail, but is showing evidence of a sunward spike. He points out some alignments to watch out for, including next March.

He doesn't see any reason to think it's artificially constructed at this point, but he finds its most curious feature to be the perfect Mars>Mercury>Sun alignment that will happen on October 2. In the first talk, he says it's almost as if it were intentional. This could cause some electrical phenomena and IF its alien, they could use the close approach at Mars to slow down.

 

[Aeneas]

James McCanney has posted a couple updates over the last month. No update yet commenting on the latest findings, but here they are:

Yes, I watched those videos and they are well worth listening to. He mentions the time around the 2nd of October as Atlas will be close to Mars and then he mentions the days around the 3rd of Marts, 2026 as it then is close to Jupiter. He mentions the possibility of some interesting discharging events and also that Mars and/or Jupiter might show cometary phenomena. It could get interesting to watch.

I was lucky enough to see the great comet of 2007 aka comet McNaught, which was visible on the southern hemisphere. That was a great show to watch. It had a tail estimated to be 75 million kilometers long and it was needless to say very visible with the naked eye.

 

[Joe]

Answer to the title of the thread: "No"

 

[Joe]

This could cause some electrical phenomena and IF its alien, they could use the close approach at Mars to slow down.

Makes ya wonder what kind of "aliens" they'd be that need to use the close approach to Mars to slow down their mega spaceship. No brakes? No very high tech.

 

[Joe]

He didn't really say anything new about it, as far as I could tell. His focus seems to be on highlighting the dangers of cosmic impacts, which are still widely underestimated.

Good man Randall. Keeping it real.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Makes ya wonder what kind of "aliens" they'd be that need to use the close approach to Mars to slow down their mega spaceship. No brakes? No very high tech.

He's presuming an electromagnetic propulsion of what we would call the 3D variety, as he described in one of his first books - high-tech but not that high tech.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

He didn't really say anything new about it, as far as I could tell. His focus seems to be on highlighting the dangers of cosmic impacts, which are still widely underestimated.

Watched bits and pieces. They pretty much just go through Loeb's paper and comment. Too bad Randall is still stuck in the snowball comet theory. But still some interesting stuff in there. He respects Loeb's position, even if he leans towards comet - albeit a unique one with anomalous features.

 

[axj]

One of Arthur C. Clarke's most famous books ("Rendevouz with Rama") is about a 50km large interstellar object that came at very high speed into the solar system in the 22nd century. It turned out being an automated alien O'Neill cylinder with artificial rotational gravity inside and was visited by a spaceship crew.

What is interesting is that the object was first given the provisional designation 31/439 before being given the name Rama. The German version of the book was actually called "Rendevouz with 31/439" for a while.

The coincidence being that currently many read 3I Atlas as 31 Atlas.

As to the clue in the latest session:

Q: (L) Okay. Is this Windmill Knight still asking about Object 3I/Atlas?

(Joe) No, that's me.

(L) Oh, that's you. Didn't we already ask about it?

(Joe) No. This object 3I/Atlas, what is it?

A: Wait and see! Hale-Bopp anyone?

Q: (Joe) Cool! It's gonna come and put on a show.

Hale-Bopp was a very bright comet (which 3I Atlas is not expected to be), so I wonder if the reference is more along the lines of there having been massive speculation at the time that Hale-Bopp was followed by an alien spaceship and what not. The Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide to "go up to that spaceship".

Maybe similar craziness is what can be expected.