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[Romulus]

It's a rock.

It's interesting to see that even bright minds like Avi Loeb and Michio kaku have succumbed to social media sensationalism. I guess there simply is no line of work truly exempt from lunatics.

Loeb started it. He wrote a paper at the very beginning of this.

 

[Dutchy]

Loeb started it. He wrote a paper at the very beginning of this.

The sensationalism you mean? I think you may be right.

Darryl Seligman was the first one to actually report on 3i Atlas iirc and he never thought it was an anamolous object. But I guess the guy doesn't have enough socials to be credible for today's standards.

 

[jason10mm]

Just days before 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Mars, the federal government ran out of funding, and NASA, like all agencies, shut down any work that was not deemed mission critical.

Loeb says it took pics, just no one is "working" who can authorize release.

 

[crazepharmacist]

Just listened to the Rogan podcast with the Harvard guy talking about this. Did we ever get the Mars observatory photo that was real close?

Which episode? I want to listen to that

 

[Romulus]

The sensationalism you mean? I think you may be right.

Darryl Seligman was the first one to actually report on 3i Atlas iirc and he never thought it was an anamolous object. But I guess the guy doesn't have enough socials to be credible for today's standards.

Yeah, but having said that in every case, Loeb says the chance is greater that its just a comet, just that we shouldn't be caught off guard by something technological and observe it with an open mind. I kind of agree with that, the difference is he thinks there is a 40% chance of it being intelligence, whereas I feel that chance is less than 10%.

 

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