July 27, 2025 • 12 mins
Mikaela and Chris discuss an interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS moving at over 130,000 miles per hour in space that will pass us in November!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Come back. Mindy took off the rest of the show.
We've got a couple of interesting subjects to talk about,
So Christ our producer, with me and Chris, I kind
of take you. I don't know, I felt like one
of these subjects I wanted to talk to you about
because I take you, maybe incorrectly for a sci fi guy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Like tell me my husband says, I'm more of a
space girl rather than a sci fi girl. What is
the difference between someone who likes a space movie and
a sci fi movie? Like he says, there is a difference.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So I don't know. I think it kind of depends.
I think like space I would consider like Interstellar a space.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Movie greed which I really enjoy Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And then sci fi is more are you gonna get
like you know, Star Wars, Star Trek, you know, it's
I think it's more on the fiction side of it,
whereas like a space science fiction right like The Martian
could be considered a space movie as well because there's
actual science, Like there's actual you know, it's actually they
actually use a science involved in it. I don't know where.
We haven't been to Mars yet, but you know, you
(01:10):
know what I'm saying is I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Also enjoyed that one. Do you like space movies as well?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I love them, But I love space in general. Like
when I was in college at Ohio State, I took
several science you have to take science classes. I took
all space and astronomy classes, no kidding, So I love that. Sude,
Why did you?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why did you do it? Just out of curiosity given
what you do now in the world of production.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've just always loved space and in that part of
science and the whole, like everything with galaxies and planets
and all that, And I mean that's just something I've
always been interested.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I mean, I've been obsessed to Haley's comment came through
when I was in second grade and I remember our teacher,
Missus Roberts, putting up this like beautiful you know, bulletin
board that had the countdown on it. So and I
also was a Challenger kid, right Like I watched the
Challenger explode in was so tragic and sad at the
(02:02):
same time. We were all wondering like how did it happen?
What happened? And you know, Colombia happened during my lifetime
I was older, so that's why this next story. I
don't know if you guys have heard about this. I've
heard of it, but this next story is crazy. So
Chris knows about it. We're going to talk about it.
If you have opinions, we have time. Let to discuss this.
(02:24):
I'd love to know what you think this thing is
that we're going to talk about. So I'm gonna give
you our phone number. Feel free to call us six
one four eight two one nine eight eighty six six
one four eight two one WTVN. So let me tell
you what this is. There is an object moving through
space called I believe it is thirty one or three
(02:48):
i at LIS that was discovered just on July first,
and it is rocketing toward the Sun at more than
one hundred and thirty thousand miles per hour. Now less
than twenty four hours later, so July second ish, it
(03:08):
was confirmed to be an interstellar object, with initial observation
suggesting that it could be a comet that measures up
to fifteen miles in diameter, which is larger than Manhattan.
If that gives you any idea. So, Chris, I know
I've kind of been following this story like the science
(03:29):
dork that I am when did you hear about it?
And what did you think about it?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I remember first, I remember first reading about and
I was like, okay, cool. I wonder if it'll be
something like people, you know, we'll be able to look
at if as it passes by. But lately people have
been having different theories about other things it could be.
But when I first saw it, I was like, the
(03:56):
size of Manhattan. That's like, that's big. That's a big comment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's a big comment.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Then I don't know, have you seen the recent stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's actually what I was going to talk about today,
So yes, the recent stuff on it. I want to
find out how big a comment normally is, because I
agree with you, this seems rather large for a comment.
But the recent stuff. There's this paper, okay, guys that
has not been peer reviewed yet, and this is the deal.
(04:32):
And this is information for the New York Post, which
take it or leave it. It's factual. Sometimes sometimes it's
a little out there, but they call it. This mysterious
intergalactic object could potentially be a hostile alien spacecraft that
slated to come by our planet in November. According to
a controversial new study by a small group of scientists,
(04:57):
So have you read more about their paper.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I have, and I've seen like little bits and pieces
of the paper they've been like able to show show
with it, and it's an interesting theory. I've also saw.
I also saw another I forget where, but another scientist
(05:20):
said that it could also be something from another galaxy
that has just accelerated more and more as it gets
towards us, or like as it enters the Milky Way.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That's what I'm saying, that it'll accelerate as it enters
the Milky Way like it like.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's from a foreign galaxy, and as it entered the
Milky Way it picked up speed something like that again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Six one four six. If you're a science nerd like
us and have heard about this, and we we're curious
what you think about it. There's a photo of this
thing from a telescope.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is it the multiple colored one?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
What is it? It looks like a string of different colors.
So this fifteen mile long object has blue, green, red,
It's like blue two greens, a red, a blue, maybe
another red two greens. Like this is a pattern kind
of too.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And that's what makes it different is usually you don't
see like a commet in that like shape. It's straight
like that's that's what's weird about it too.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is a straight line.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, that's and because they released like stuff like this
all the time, for like if a comma's coming by,
because you can see it but in a straight line
like that. That's like, have you seen like the three
D mock up of what they've potentially No, but.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now you're making me want to google it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, it's like what they think it potentially looks like.
And then when you see the object of it, I mean,
comments and asteroids can come in different shapes and sizes.
But when you look at like the like the three
D of it, and then you see the uh with
the telescip's, it's like, okay, you know it might make
it okay.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But the odd thing is a comment typically from what
I'm seeing is I mean less than okay, so it
could be big. In general, they're relatively small. Most comets
typically range from a few kilometers to ten kilometers, and
ten kilometers is six miles. There also is some information
(07:26):
that I mean the largest one that's an average size, right,
but wow, comment hail bop. Remember when we all talked
about hail Bop. I remember that comment that was forty
kilometers wide, So I mean it could be a rather
large comment. But yes, so this three D mockup, you're
(07:49):
saying it feels more like a comet in the three
D mockup, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, if it's it should If it should, oh, I I.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Think I might have it. Is it more like a yeah,
it looks a little different there. This picture though, where
it looks like it's just like a rainbow of colors
in a straight line, does not look like a comet
at all.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So one of the researchers, Avi Lobe, a prominent Harvard
astrophysicist known for linking extraterrestrial objects to alien life, previously
made waves after floating a theory that that twenty seventeen
interstellar object called omumm ou oh something like that could
be an artificial reconprobe sent by an alien civilization based
(08:32):
on its odd shape and acceleration. So this guy's known,
you know, to like, you know, be a little edgy
if you will. No pun intended with a fifteen mile
long comment, but you know this study he collaborated with
a couple of other folks in London, and he's saying
the trajectory of this thing suggests a similar alien origin.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, because I thought I saw it says opposed to
pass go behind our sun at some point, and then like,
once it's past our sun, we can't I guess it's
like it right, we can't see it and our telescopes can't
see it, which makes it perfect for aliens to spy
on us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, that is the one benefit. It's going to make
close approaches to Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, which would allow
aliens to stealthily plant spy gadgets there.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But here's the thing that I've always that I could
be wrong on this, is that I don't know where
it's at right now, but I have always heard that
Jupiter and Saturn have some of the strongest gravity gravity.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Pools, gravitational poles.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, so I'm wondering how close is it going to
get to those two planets, because it realistically could get
like I mean, I don't know, again not a scientist,
but like if it gets close enough, it could get
like sucked into like Jupiter Saturn, I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Way that Jupiter is it Saturn's rings, the way that
those work. That has to do I think with gravitational
poll don't quote me on it. I'm obviously not a scientist.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Those are like the strongest ones, and I'm pretty sure
jew I thought Jupiter's was the strongest. But like, it
just depends on where it's at and how fat I'm like,
you know, and many other many other factors that I
am not qualified to say.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can't tell you. The biggest comment ever was one
hundred and thirty seven kilometers in diameter, which is way
bigger than even this one.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Is that the one that killed the dinosaurs?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Bernard Bernard, Nelly Burnstein And I'm trying to see if
it's gonna give me a year. The cloud comment discovered
by Bernard and Deli October twenty fourteen. So no, it
was first imaged in October of twenty fourteen, and the
(10:50):
object was almost as far as Neptune's orbit and the
greatest distance of which a comet has been discovered. They
saw it. I don't know if it came in. So anyway,
you guys look this up. It is super interesting because
it would be around in November, and to Chris's point,
once it gets near the sun, you're you're not going
(11:12):
to be able to see it, and we couldn't if
we need to do anything. Our rockets can't even go
a third as fast as this from what I understand
as well. But other scientists are throwing cold water on
this right like yeah, they're like, this is a comment,
but definitely check it out. Is it three I or
thirty one? It looks like it might be three eye
slash at lists.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I believe it's three IY slash X or something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, Yeah, there's a ton of information on it out there.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's really cool regardless because of like even the shape
of it alone is something that's different no matter what
people think or and you know, November we'll find out more.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We will. You never know what you're gonna get on
what matters, But you know, if it came down to
is this okay for humanity, we're going to talk about
that too, all right when we come back, we'll wrap
up the show with a look at something else that Chris,
I feel like we might have a nice little debate
on this is what matters on six ten to
Come back. Mindy took off the rest of the show.
We've got a couple of interesting subjects to talk about,
So Christ our producer, with me and Chris, I kind
of take you. I don't know, I felt like one
of these subjects I wanted to talk to you about
because I take you, maybe incorrectly for a sci fi guy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Like tell me my husband says, I'm more of a
space girl rather than a sci fi girl. What is
the difference between someone who likes a space movie and
a sci fi movie? Like he says, there is a difference.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So I don't know. I think it kind of depends.
I think like space I would consider like Interstellar a space.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Movie greed which I really enjoy Interstellar.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And then sci fi is more are you gonna get
like you know, Star Wars, Star Trek, you know, it's
I think it's more on the fiction side of it,
whereas like a space science fiction right like The Martian
could be considered a space movie as well because there's
actual science, Like there's actual you know, it's actually they
actually use a science involved in it. I don't know where.
We haven't been to Mars yet, but you know, you
(01:10):
know what I'm saying is I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Also enjoyed that one. Do you like space movies as well?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I love them, But I love space in general. Like
when I was in college at Ohio State, I took
several science you have to take science classes. I took
all space and astronomy classes, no kidding, So I love that. Sude,
Why did you?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Why did you do it? Just out of curiosity given
what you do now in the world of production.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've just always loved space and in that part of
science and the whole, like everything with galaxies and planets
and all that, And I mean that's just something I've
always been interested.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I mean, I've been obsessed to Haley's comment came through
when I was in second grade and I remember our teacher,
Missus Roberts, putting up this like beautiful you know, bulletin
board that had the countdown on it. So and I
also was a Challenger kid, right Like I watched the
Challenger explode in was so tragic and sad at the
(02:02):
same time. We were all wondering like how did it happen?
What happened? And you know, Colombia happened during my lifetime
I was older, so that's why this next story. I
don't know if you guys have heard about this. I've
heard of it, but this next story is crazy. So
Chris knows about it. We're going to talk about it.
If you have opinions, we have time. Let to discuss this.
(02:24):
I'd love to know what you think this thing is
that we're going to talk about. So I'm gonna give
you our phone number. Feel free to call us six
one four eight two one nine eight eighty six six
one four eight two one WTVN. So let me tell
you what this is. There is an object moving through
space called I believe it is thirty one or three
(02:48):
i at LIS that was discovered just on July first,
and it is rocketing toward the Sun at more than
one hundred and thirty thousand miles per hour. Now less
than twenty four hours later, so July second ish, it
(03:08):
was confirmed to be an interstellar object, with initial observation
suggesting that it could be a comet that measures up
to fifteen miles in diameter, which is larger than Manhattan.
If that gives you any idea. So, Chris, I know
I've kind of been following this story like the science
(03:29):
dork that I am when did you hear about it?
And what did you think about it?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So I remember first, I remember first reading about and
I was like, okay, cool. I wonder if it'll be
something like people, you know, we'll be able to look
at if as it passes by. But lately people have
been having different theories about other things it could be.
But when I first saw it, I was like, the
(03:56):
size of Manhattan. That's like, that's big. That's a big comment.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's a big comment.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Then I don't know, have you seen the recent stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's actually what I was going to talk about today,
So yes, the recent stuff on it. I want to
find out how big a comment normally is, because I
agree with you, this seems rather large for a comment.
But the recent stuff. There's this paper, okay, guys that
has not been peer reviewed yet, and this is the deal.
(04:32):
And this is information for the New York Post, which
take it or leave it. It's factual. Sometimes sometimes it's
a little out there, but they call it. This mysterious
intergalactic object could potentially be a hostile alien spacecraft that
slated to come by our planet in November. According to
a controversial new study by a small group of scientists,
(04:57):
So have you read more about their paper.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I have, and I've seen like little bits and pieces
of the paper they've been like able to show show
with it, and it's an interesting theory. I've also saw.
I also saw another I forget where, but another scientist
(05:20):
said that it could also be something from another galaxy
that has just accelerated more and more as it gets
towards us, or like as it enters the Milky Way.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
That's what I'm saying, that it'll accelerate as it enters
the Milky Way like it like.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's from a foreign galaxy, and as it entered the
Milky Way it picked up speed something like that again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Six one four six. If you're a science nerd like
us and have heard about this, and we we're curious
what you think about it. There's a photo of this
thing from a telescope.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is it the multiple colored one?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
What is it? It looks like a string of different colors.
So this fifteen mile long object has blue, green, red,
It's like blue two greens, a red, a blue, maybe
another red two greens. Like this is a pattern kind
of too.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And that's what makes it different is usually you don't
see like a commet in that like shape. It's straight
like that's that's what's weird about it too.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is a straight line.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, that's and because they released like stuff like this
all the time, for like if a comma's coming by,
because you can see it but in a straight line
like that. That's like, have you seen like the three
D mock up of what they've potentially No, but.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now you're making me want to google it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, it's like what they think it potentially looks like.
And then when you see the object of it, I mean,
comments and asteroids can come in different shapes and sizes.
But when you look at like the like the three
D of it, and then you see the uh with
the telescip's, it's like, okay, you know it might make
it okay.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But the odd thing is a comment typically from what
I'm seeing is I mean less than okay, so it
could be big. In general, they're relatively small. Most comets
typically range from a few kilometers to ten kilometers, and
ten kilometers is six miles. There also is some information
(07:26):
that I mean the largest one that's an average size, right,
but wow, comment hail bop. Remember when we all talked
about hail Bop. I remember that comment that was forty
kilometers wide, So I mean it could be a rather
large comment. But yes, so this three D mockup, you're
(07:49):
saying it feels more like a comet in the three
D mockup, I'm.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Yeah, if it's it should If it should, oh, I I.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Think I might have it. Is it more like a yeah,
it looks a little different there. This picture though, where
it looks like it's just like a rainbow of colors
in a straight line, does not look like a comet
at all.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So one of the researchers, Avi Lobe, a prominent Harvard
astrophysicist known for linking extraterrestrial objects to alien life, previously
made waves after floating a theory that that twenty seventeen
interstellar object called omumm ou oh something like that could
be an artificial reconprobe sent by an alien civilization based
(08:32):
on its odd shape and acceleration. So this guy's known,
you know, to like, you know, be a little edgy
if you will. No pun intended with a fifteen mile
long comment, but you know this study he collaborated with
a couple of other folks in London, and he's saying
the trajectory of this thing suggests a similar alien origin.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, because I thought I saw it says opposed to
pass go behind our sun at some point, and then like,
once it's past our sun, we can't I guess it's
like it right, we can't see it and our telescopes can't
see it, which makes it perfect for aliens to spy
on us.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Yeah, that is the one benefit. It's going to make
close approaches to Jupiter, Mars, and Venus, which would allow
aliens to stealthily plant spy gadgets there.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But here's the thing that I've always that I could
be wrong on this, is that I don't know where
it's at right now, but I have always heard that
Jupiter and Saturn have some of the strongest gravity gravity.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Pools, gravitational poles.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, so I'm wondering how close is it going to
get to those two planets, because it realistically could get
like I mean, I don't know, again not a scientist,
but like if it gets close enough, it could get
like sucked into like Jupiter Saturn, I mean the.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Way that Jupiter is it Saturn's rings, the way that
those work. That has to do I think with gravitational
poll don't quote me on it. I'm obviously not a scientist.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Those are like the strongest ones, and I'm pretty sure
jew I thought Jupiter's was the strongest. But like, it
just depends on where it's at and how fat I'm like,
you know, and many other many other factors that I
am not qualified to say.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can't tell you. The biggest comment ever was one
hundred and thirty seven kilometers in diameter, which is way
bigger than even this one.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Is that the one that killed the dinosaurs?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Bernard Bernard, Nelly Burnstein And I'm trying to see if
it's gonna give me a year. The cloud comment discovered
by Bernard and Deli October twenty fourteen. So no, it
was first imaged in October of twenty fourteen, and the
(10:50):
object was almost as far as Neptune's orbit and the
greatest distance of which a comet has been discovered. They
saw it. I don't know if it came in. So anyway,
you guys look this up. It is super interesting because
it would be around in November, and to Chris's point,
once it gets near the sun, you're you're not going
(11:12):
to be able to see it, and we couldn't if
we need to do anything. Our rockets can't even go
a third as fast as this from what I understand
as well. But other scientists are throwing cold water on
this right like yeah, they're like, this is a comment,
but definitely check it out. Is it three I or
thirty one? It looks like it might be three eye
slash at lists.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I believe it's three IY slash X or something like that.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Okay, Yeah, there's a ton of information on it out there.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
It's really cool regardless because of like even the shape
of it alone is something that's different no matter what
people think or and you know, November we'll find out more.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
We will. You never know what you're gonna get on
what matters, But you know, if it came down to
is this okay for humanity, we're going to talk about
that too, all right when we come back, we'll wrap
up the show with a look at something else that Chris,
I feel like we might have a nice little debate
on this is what matters on six ten to
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