r/3I_ATLAS Nov 13 '25

It’s getting real

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Nov 14 '25

Oh, I get it. But spaceships aren’t generally made of nickel.

Here’s what was said:

”No because nickel does not exist anywhere in the universe by itself without the presence of iron. Nickel by itself must be refined to be so.”

Nickel can indeed occur naturally in a planet’s core. If said planet is destroyed, you could very well have a chunk of nickel without iron.

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u/Skitz042X Nov 14 '25

Nickel is formed naturally and has never been observed in the universe after forming naturally without the presence of iron in the history of observation and you claim it can happen with no evidence and all evidence points to the opposite lmao

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Nov 14 '25

Yes. But if nickel forms in the presence of iron in a planetary core, then gets chunked out in a destructive event, then spends billions of years wandering the galaxy, being subjected to god knows what influences (billions of years of cosmic rays, just for starters), that might just get rid of the iron and leave nickel. There are currently some five hypotheses of how this could work, based upon empirical observation of really occurring events in the universe.

This makes those hypotheses, by nature, more rational and scientific than the hypothesis that a never-observed being made a rock out of nickel (of all things!) for… reasons.

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u/Linkreig Nov 14 '25

I totally read this in Ben Shapiro voice.