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Yep the nickel is a weird one, one of the many reasons you have to at least consider artificial origin.

Nearly everything about it has been odd. Everybody who has been saying "Its a comet, its a comet, its a comet!" without explaining all the oddities since the start has been getting owned. Yeah maybe its still a natural object, but its not like any comet we've seen before.

We can mostly only see it with the instruments that designed to look at the sun now, those are the observations they used for that paper. Still a while before all the earth based optical telescopes can see it again. The Blue shift was unexpected - and the brightening that was noted in the same...

The government shutdown gives NASA plausible reason not to release the Mars orbiter images as long as it goes on.

Loeb pointed this out in one of the Hubble images as well, and claims he's the only one that has even tried to explain how this anti-tail could occur. Just another anomaly of this "comet." His brief about this feature and summary of all the anomalies. Some interesting comments there, such as...

There's no way get out of the games business entirely in the near future. $15B+ revenue a year in games and game pass, high margin businesses. Hardware is debatable, but they will keep selling games, and the old games you bought will continue to be available on their digital stores long into...

Why is it "rightfully" deemed illegitimate, when it was in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known biblical texts ? Also referenced in parts of the bible.

For sure some kind of operation is a small possibility - Corbell and some others have insisted a psyop of "alien invasion" is coming within the next couple years, although I don't trust anything that guy says either. If it was some sort of operation its even more reason to look more closely...

Avi Loeb calculated where 3I/Atlas was when the Wow! signal would have been sent in 1977 - not exactly from the same spot, but very close to the same spot in the sky the Wow signal came from, less than 10 degrees apart. That's assuming no significant non-gravitational forces acting on it for...

Angry Astronaut guy on Avi Loeb's latest paper regarding 3I/Atlas. The TLDW is there is almost zero non-gravitational acceleration happening - its course is conforming remarking well to what you'd expect from gravity alone. The issue with that is - with the amount of gases we've seen released...

Summary of all the anomalies. I mean the trajectory by itself was beyond coincidental to begin with, nearly 2 months ago. But you would have expected as more data for it to come into focus under a normal lens. The opposite has happened so far - many of the new data points are only showing...

Another day, another 3I / Atlas anomaly. This time, detection of nickel without any iron, previously unheard of in comets. Link to the paper, and copilot summary of it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18382 Summary of Findings 1. Detection of Nickel Without Iron The team observed 22 distinct...

Latest paper on 3I / Atlas from a team using SphereX observations Aug 8-12 have it with uniform CO2 coma, no water gas in the coma which they are puzzled about at that range, and no tail in any direction. Most massive estimate of its nucleus yet - 46 km diameter ! Note - we have never seen a...

The Hubble images of 3I / Atlas - released a bit ago - showed a coma and "tail" but the tail isn't pointing away from the sun but towards it. That's not normal for comets, but could be explainable as I understand if its shedding heavier particles. Typical particles and gas emitted by comets...

Too bad they didn't put it in Apple and forget.. looks like it was around $0.13 - $0.20 vs. today's price considering all splits. Over 1000x gains. Its funny how Gump shows early investment in Apple by Lieutenant Dan as being some sort of life changing event... but the reality is all they...

Some of Jesse Michels vids are interviews where he just eats up everything he is told and doesn't really try to debunk what he's told too much. This one I feel like he tried to be a bit more balanced, consider the debunkers angles etc. Pretty well done and interesting vid on the Nazca mummies...

Haven't heard that, would be cool. Unrelated to JWST, what I heard is that by that date (Aug 6th) we should start to either see some outgassing and / or a tail pointing away from the sun due to the solar pressure. Thus far they have not observed a tail pointing away from the sun at all yet, I...

Nobody has ever said its on course to intercept earth - if it stays on its current trajectory, it will pass pretty close to Mars, and a little further from both Venus and Jupiter. Its not supposed to get close to earth. Avi Loeb said if it were technological, it could be made to perform a...

And lastly, regardless of what it is, we should want to study it because its possibly the oldest object we've ever observed passing through the solar system, older than the solar system itself. When this first popped up, everybody was saying there was no way we could intercept it before it...

Nope - analysis of the Vera C. Rubin data estimates the nucleus to be 7 miles in diameter. Roughly same size as Rama btw... https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/3i-atlas-is-7-miles-wide-the-largest-interstellar-object-ever-seen-new-photos-from-vera-c-rubin-observatory-reveal

I posted about the improbable trajectory in the astronomy thread even before Avi Loeb brought it up. Its extremely unlikely that an interstellar object comes within less than 0.4 AU of 3 different planets on one shot path through the solar system, something like 1 in 20,000. And pretty much in...

Not complicated - its the covid money + work from home. One way or another, those trillions make their way into the US housing market. Suburban and rural prices have likely appreciated the most due to work from home flexibility. Then end.

Avi Loeb and a couple others just put out a draft paper on the possibility of 3I/Atlas being something "technological" - expanding on the thing I pointed out above that it gets improbably close to multiple planets, in addition to other improbable characteristics. Multiple times from the start...

Thought the relatively close approaches of 3I/Atlas by Mars and Jupiter both was interesting and asked Grok what the odds are of that... C3P0 gave better odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field. Grok's estimate for this two-planet pass trajectory was 114,000 to 1: 3. Geometric...

Like I said, you clearly didn't watch this series based on your posts. I made the point that Jimmy was hurt, then had the flu, he wasn't Jimmy at all for the most part. You ignored that and whine about the Warriors needing more stars to compete. If you think he was Jimmy in this series you...

They were competitive to an extent like I said. The Wolves have more talent than the Warriors if you remove Steph and Ant, pretty obvious to me. You clearly didn't even watch this thing, you're just a hater who doesn't know ball at all.

Wtf does that mean? Take the best player off almost any team and they're probably not winning series at this point. You think Denver has any shot in their series if Jokic went down? You think OKC has a shot against Denver without Shai? You think the Wolves do anything at all without Ant ...

Gjob Minny winning every game Steph didn't play in. (13 minutes of Steph was enough to beat them at home in game 1). They're playing well, but gluck in the next round unless the next team loses their best player as well.

Cavs after Lebron left (multiple times) But the question is at what point do we stop caring, stop giving it our eyeballs ? Its sad but if they're willing to throw multiple lotteries for the sake of money scheming, you know they have no qualms about fixing games here and there for the sake of...

I got maybe halfway through, and initial reaction is that I don't believe the guy. The guy find some docs / photos / vids on the DoD intranet and thinks he's figured the grand conspiracy out and is willing to put his life on the line for it ? (He said this himself that he could be executed for...

Fair point that teams have gone about attempting more 3-pointers in different ways, not fair to say the Warriors style was "based around 4 all-stars." The year they won their first title they had TWO all stars, Steph and Klay. The next season they had three, adding Draymond, because when you...

Very debatable how much the removal of hand checking has changed scoring averages. League scoring averages changed drastically at other times before hand checking was ever removed in 2004. Scoring in the 80's and early 90's was much higher than it was in the late 90's and 2000's. Scoring...

Lmao some of you need a reality check on how physical the NBA was in the 80's and 90's. Its like you've just seen a few highlight videos of Bill Laimbeer laying guys out and think that's what the game was. Here's the first fucking Lakers-Celtics Finals game I came across - watch this thing...

Summary - WEF members control Gobekli Tepe and Gunang Padang, possibly the two oldest known monolithic sites on earth, and seem to be actively preventing further excavation for the indefinite future. Gobekli Tepe only 5% excavated.

Before he went full-on tech Leo was on the Bay Area sports radio station. I called in to talk to him when I was like 10 years old and he was taking calls on who was going to win the Bay Bridge series (A's vs. Giants WS in 89), just a week or two before the big quake happened prior to game 3...

Lifelong Mavs fan checking in!!... But seriously, I will be rooting for Klay in Dallas, forever respect for the guy, and maybe one of my top 5 favorite Bay Area athletes all time to watch play. Forever fuck Danny Green for the dirty finals play that ended Klay's time as an elite player. Klay...

Yeah, still holding out hope they someday divert back to the Civ IV path. Did not buy VI, and will not buy another unless they clearly steer back onto the classic Civ path. I could play IV til the end of time if needed, but it'd be nice if someday they surprised us all and came out with a...

Super interesting if true...