A mysterious space anomaly has galvanized attention, still generates hype and division, and ignores us silly naked apes as we continue to threaten ourselves and our biosphere with industrial pollution and weapons of mass destruction 

3i/ATLAS is neither a regular comet nor an alien spaceship. There is abundantly ample information already out describing the discovery and history of 3i/ATLAS, the numerous theories regarding what it is and isn’t, the hyperbole and drama around it, the origins of its distinctive name, and its numerous anomalies, so we won’t bother repeating such nauseum ad nauseum.

Truth is we don’t really know what 3i/ATLAS is nor do we well understand it. Beware of anyone who does, even with NASA pedigrees. Perhaps the greatest anomaly of all is the infighting between scientists over what this odd object from elsewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy is and the refusal by so many to even recognize many of the anomalies are more representative of an artificially construct than a natural one as well as how quickly a few others go to the other extremes of it being fully an technological artifact. Am not going to repeat all of these arguments over recognizing and interpreting these anomalies here. 

This enigmatic object has many characteristics of a comet, but also many characteristics that are not comet-like. Nor is it an asteroid or some dual comet-asteroid hybrid object. There are so many anomalies it doesn’t behave like a comet. Some following this object have counted up to 14 anomalies. Others, uncritically presenting mainstream scientific orthodox religiosity, claim it doesn’t have any actual anomalies as the object is merely a strange one from different star systems with divergent chemistry. Aw, C’mon, guys.  Continue reading →