The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends

EPISODE 148 | The Visitors: 3I/ATLAS & Friends

Something is happening right now that maybe we should all pay at least a little bit of attention to. It’s time to break out the nice dishes and give the place a good dusting, because we have company folks. We have a visitor. 

Probably a comet. But maybe not, according to some. Maybe it's an alien spaceship with bad intent. And it’s coming to get us.

UPDATE: Nothing happened. What a surprise. 

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SECTIONS

1. 03:21 - Wanderlust - 1I/ʻOumuamua, Avi Loeb, solar sails, technosignatures, 2I/Borisov, astronomical units (AUs)
2. 12:56 - Poor Fractured Atlas - Avi Loeb gets into UAP, the ATLAS detection system, 3I/ATLAS, "normal" comets, maybe a planet seed
3. 22:08 - Calling All Comets - 3I/ATLAS starts acting weird, the Dark Forest Hypothesis, an interstellar highway, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), nickel and iron
4. 30:20 - In My House - A Mars flyby, the US government shuts down and conspiracy theories fill the void, a recap of weirdness, why it does not have "military implications"
5. 39:15 - Supermassive Black Hole - The Overview Effect, real dangers, more stuff is probably coming

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO

• The Uncensored Guide To ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, And That Harvard Astronomer in Forbes
• ʻOumuamua on RationalWiki
• New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor on space.com
• Could comet 3I/ATLAS be alien technology? Controversial Harvard astrophysicist says yes
• 3rd interstellar visitor confirms a cosmic highway — Earth could be in ‘someone’s trajectory’ on EcoNews
• This Mysterious Object From Our Solar System Might Be a Planet-Making Seed
• “Physics Doesn’t Work Anymore”: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Traveling Backwards At 130,000 MPH Shatters Every Scientific Law
• Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System
• Interstellar object spotted shedding mysterious metals in way that defies science: 'It's extremely puzzling'
• Are internet rumours of a comet hurtling towards Earth true? 
• Scientists reveal where 'alien object' heading past Earth will actually be going
• 3I/ATLAS is Captured in New Images as Mysterious Object Cruises Past Mars—What Does the Latest Data Reveal?  
• First Images of 3I/ATLAS from ExoMars TGO by Avi Loeb
• Mysterious interstellar visitor spotted above Mars appears as 'massive cylindrical craft'
• A Recap of the Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS on the Day of Its Closest Approach to Mars by Avi Loeb (the Trojan Horse article)
• 7 reasons why