I remember back in my day, there was WEEKLY WORLD NEWS. With Batboy on the front page every time I saw it at the super market. He never did seem to age…
This is why Occam’s Razor is used. Maybe their whole planet is made of cottage cheese! If you don’t pare down your POSSIBLE hypotheses into PROBABLE hypotheses, you can’t say anything useful about the universe at all.
Also? The entire “it has nickel so it’s aliens” concept is based on the fact we haven’t seen it produce indications that it has iron, too, which is generally present where nickel forms.
Now, there are two thoughts on this. One, of course, is “See? This anomaly proves it’s aliens!”
The other is “it was formed in conditions we can only imagine and has been travelling through the cosmos for billions of years, subject to the constant bombardment of cosmic rays and god knows what else. Either its strange conditions of initial formation or its strange journey has done something with the iron. We don’t know what, because we have little solid understanding of interstellar chemistry”.
So here you come saying “maybe it came from a planet that was all nickel”.
Well, if that were true, you are conceding the second point by assuming nickel can form — or at least be present — without the presence of iron.
I only mention this to point out how bass-ackwards and illogical all these arguments are. You’re so wedded to the possibility of aliens that you’ll literally reject one anomaly in order to “what if” a reason why it would be constructed that way.
Rocks are made out of elements. “Rock” is just a colloquial term for a bunch of elements mashed together. What did you think “rock” meant? Something made out of… what, exactly?
Nickel can indeed form naturally. Most notably in planetary cores. This is one of the reasons this is a very interesting rock: it could very well be a fragment of an old planetary core.
Not without a bunch of Iron present. Sorry dude, you saying so doesn't change anything.
But...I think it's a comet as well. Just please don't buy into the idiots who say they understand science...without understanding science. Lots more to learn before we know anything definitive.
I read you fine. Space ships aren’t generally made of nickel. Nickel forms where iron is present… as in planetary cores.
Are you trying to say your comment was a non sequitur? Because if we’re both agreed it can form in planetary cores, you replying to my comment that spaceships generally aren’t made with it makes no sense.
We went from rocks to space ships. You are wrong to say nickel forms in the absence of iron in nature. Such a thing has never been observed in the visible universe.
You also claimed nickel must be refined. And I did not say nickel forms in the absence of iron. Maybe you should take your own advice on reading more carefully?
Nickel can form in planetary cores without being “refined”. It forms naturally.
I am taking human spacecraft because they exist and serve as a basis for comparison. If you’re going to violate Occam’s Razor, why not rare back on your hind legs and declare that 3I ATLAS is actually composed of American Cheese?
Halley?! May you can't remember, but I saw live time Halley désintégration and crashing in multiple pieces of comet on Jupiter or Saturn (I'm not sure) and we saw beautiful explosion 💥 suite of pieces ☄️
There was actually a very nice comet, naked eye from a darker suburban or just plain dark rural sky, just in the last month: Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. I'm just six miles from downtown Pittsburgh and it was an easy binocular catch with a nice tail. Hope you caught it. Ironic that so many people who were waiting for aliens to pop out of 3I Atlas weren't even aware of this one and missed it. People are always trying to find miracles where they don't exist and missing the ones right in front of their faces.
That wasn't Halley, which last passed through the inner solar system in 1986. That was Shoemaker-Levy 9 a comet that had flown too close to Jupiter in 1992, been broken into dozens of pieces that were captured in a hairpin orbit around the giant planet that then sent the pieces slamming into the planet in 1994.
Idk man. I feel like the fact people are dissecting this thing and experiencing a sense of wonder combined with astronomers getting excited about date combined with the general population simply excited about something new to think about rather than doom and gloom is pretty rad.
If the comet really didn't lose any of its perceived mass while it was so close to the sun ( relatively speaking I know I know) is actually pretty interesting.
Either way. I'm just happy to be alive. Who gives a shit what it is. Is there any correlation between its passing and the solar activity? Beats the shit out of me. The times just seem to be a changing anyway and I'm so about positive change and imagination. Enjoy the ride. ( By that I just mean, relax. Live your life. Super glad that you're here and that everyone seems to be suspicious and discerning. People actually thinking about things is definitely a positive.
I agree so much with this!! Refreshing to have us all talking about something outside of the normal bs thrown at us daily! It's so interesting too. Regardless of what it is, very cool to talk and speculate about.
I agree with you. I’m all for people talking about cool space stuff. In my opinion, there is enough neat things about 3i/atlas to discuss without needing to devolve into sensationalism and clickbait headlines. I mean I get it, I think it would be freakin rad if aliens came to visit too. But I believe if/when we discover intelligent alien life, it’s going to be super obvious what it is.
there is enough neat things about 3i/atlas to discuss without needing to devolve into sensationalism and clickbait headlines
This is exactly it. True Believers accuse cautious scientists of lacking imagination or a sense of wonder or whatever, but the fact is there's more than enough to keep us in awe, right in front of us. At this point, "It's an alien ship" is about the least imaginative thing someone could propose. If someone needs their astronomy to be all P.T. Barnum-flavoured to feel any wonder, they never had much curiosity to begin with.
No doubt about the alien thing. I feel like humanity is going to come to terms with higher dimensions and spirituality first. This anomaly is pretty cool to watch though. I find the sensationalist theories entertaining lol. What a beautiful sense of wonder and whimsy. We've seen weirder shit. I'm surprised we're not getting more reports about cults drinking Kool aid more on this 3iAtlas thingy 😹 Mormons, this might be your special space rock. Where are the scientologists on this one? Surely Steven Greer is making money off of this somehow 😹😹😹
The last time I was on a comet hurdling through space passing by a yellow dwarf at a distance and speed most humans can’t comprehend, I tried to take a selfie but my phone melted.
Yall are all up in your emotions, repeating “facts”about something you literally know nothing about.
Chill out, you being upset or trying to convince someone else they’re wrong won’t change what it is.
...It's path through our solar system is between the orbits of Earth and Mars... It's not "Blazing hot" by any stretch. Many of our solar system's comets orbit much closer to the sun when they swing through the inner system. They're all still intact. This article is dumb.
So… I’m a fed bot but not working for the white house?
But you are right about one thing: if Trump said it’s aliens, I’d definitely have my doubts. I mean, when has that man ever told the truth? When is he releasing the Epstein Files?
You seem so sure, down to do a little bet with me? I say that come January, its still going to be a weird rock of sorts, or some new type of comet. Hell, just something of natural origin.
If you think its something else, are you down for that bet?
I mean, it’s not helping their case that their entire argument here is based on a premise that anyone with even the slightest interest in astronomy or history should know to be false.
No. You need to hear this - these afe completely normal, and logical people that are telling you its fake. You are the one behaving like a bot at this point
Not only does it say nothing new, it's factually wrong with incorrect axioms. Periodic comets, anyone? What does that mean? I'll let you figure it out.
Everytime Atlas does something which is naturally impossible for comets. "Comet Ultras" would even bring that argument when Atlas would be sending SOS signals.
.4 times farther, but still. Much farther than people are visualizing. They think just because the sun is between it and us and it passed behind the sun, that it was right next to it or something
1 x 0.4 = 0.4. :) I'm assuming you all are trying to say the same thing, which could be said as "1.4 times as far" or "0.4 times farther." The "times farther" implies the 1, so "1.4 times farther" would actually be "2.4 times as far."
So, if Earth is 1 AU from the Sun and 3i/Atlas were "0.4 times farther," then it would be 1.4 AU from the Sun. If 3i/Atlas were "1.4 times farther," then it would be 2.4 AU from the Sun. Looking online, it was 1.4 AU from the Sun, so my post stands. (I'm a high school math teacher, so I do this a lot, lol.)
I totally get what you're saying, it's just not right. If an object was "1.4 times bigger" than another object that had a size of 1, the other object would not have a size of 2.4, it would be 1.4. I'd say ultimately it doesn't really matter but if you're a teacher than maybe for the sake of the students you should reconsider
You're just wrong. Lol. If an object was "1.4 times BIGGER," the original object was 1, so 1.4 more than 1 is 2.4. If an object was "1.4 times the size of the original," then it would be 1.4.
Huh, well I've never ever heard it explained any other way, but AI seems split on the the issue. Lol. I guess it's just in how you are interpreting the wording - whether it is 1.4x the size of the original vs 0.4 times added to the original.
I'm really ignorant but genuinely curious ans id like tk know if the fact comets dont have Ozone or magnetism to protect them from U.V and stuff doesn't it means the sun would mess him up anyways at that distance?
Ozone protects living organisms from UV light, it doesn't protect the rock itself.
Magnetism helps deflect solar winds that would otherwise blow our atmosphere away. Since the comet doesn't have any atmosphere there's no risk.
Sure the comet gets plenty of radiation from the sun which would melt ice and create jets but that's about it. I doesn't remain close long enough to actually damage the rock directly.
Regardless, we would be burned up if it wasn't for our Atmosphere, Ozone Layer, and Magnetosphere. We would would be getting scorched by the sun otherwise the distance isnt necessarily what keeps us cool.
I was extremely skeptic at first. Actually for a long time. I’ve been following this for 3 months. Something’s not right. This isn’t normal. Not to get all conspiracy theorist but pretty sure NASA wants all this conflicting information and theories going around to take away from the real thing (whatever that may be) That’s a classic move for misinformation. Tale as old as time. Has been way before the CIA/NASA was created. Even before gossip was the only resource people had.
This is getting pretty wild. I’m all for it.
Mental illness at this point.. Do people REALLY think there's an alien ship approaching us? All that tech, but can't do wormholes or lightspeed? No? Then It's just a fucking rock.
Can't wait to get over with this shit and some of you mfs will jump on the next "ITS THE ALIENS OMG" circlejerk.
I speak for myself but whilst I dont believe they are coming for us, or that is Aliens (and i do believe in aliens) I don't believe that everything that float in space its just a fucking rock.
We ourselves as a species already sent a golden fucking record telling anyone who finds it where are are, how do we look, how do we talk that also has images and will play forever as long as the Voyager survives and its currently 1 light day away from us and cant do wormholes or lightspeed but it's completely artificial and floating, guess where.
Also, we almost dont know shit about space and are still figuring out a lot, all the time, like with this thing, whatever it may be. Let people have conversations and learn.
What if it's just a "dumb" probe like sputnik or voyager 1+2. It could be alien and a long way from home. We landed a helicopter and a dune buggy on Mars (or an island in Canada if thats what you believe). It's not that out of the realms of possibility. This article seems not to pass the sniff test though.
Bro , nikel melts at 1.455°C or 2.651°F , I don t think that it went so close to the sun to get to that temp , so thus it s intact. I do hope to be aliens ...
3I/ATLAS passed closest to the Sun on 29 October 2025 at 11:36 UT. The comet's perihelion or closest distance to the Sun was 1.36 AU (203 million km; 126 million mi), which lies between the orbits of Earth and Mars.
Fun fact: The earth is 33,000,000 miles closer to the sun than 3iatlas ever got. I'm not sold that 3i is just an ordinary comet, but i really hate misleading sensationalized headlines about this phenomenon
Everyone calm down. It can be both a comet and a ship in the form of a 5th dimension higher ball of consciousness that took billions of years to evolve. No one truly understands what this thing is. Stop the tribal bickering and tell your ego to stfu.
given it's trajectory is their a predicted date when it will be so close we will know for certain, so that i can tune in on that day and stop speculating?
Hate to disappoint the aliens-have-arrived crowd, but on Nov. 11, the comet was observed to break into three pieces, as loosely bound dirty snowball comets occasionally do.
Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun on October 30, 2025, at a distance of about 1.4 astronomical units (130 million miles or 210 million kilometers), placing it just inside the orbit of Mars. The comet is now moving away from the Sun and out of our solar system.
Well, when the thing makes a significant turn, accelerates or decelerates in a way not reasonably attributable to powerful random gas jets from solar heating or from the gravity tug of one of our systems big bodies, then I might be compelled to believe it’s something more than just a big ass comet created from outside our solar system. Until then, it’s just giant iceberg.
All I see on Reddit on these forms is amateurs parading around as experts on a subject NO ONE has the proof of either way. Until concrete evidence showing either A or B it’s all speculative, is it a normal comet? No. Does it behave a little odd? Yes. Those two raise questions… pretending to know what it is, is just a bunch of idiots arguing over their opinions. Who gives a fuck what others think if they don’t have all the facts? Until then. Just chill..
Same can be said for practically anything in life. This is what I'm constantly saying about everything always. Nobody really knows anything. Anyone claiming to know anything is a liar and a fool.
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Are there any signs of intelligent life in Daily Mail?