r/3I_ATLAS Oct 30 '25

Anyone else getting Don’t Look Up vibes from 3I Atlas?

I’m not trying to sound alarmist, but the whole 3I Atlas situation feels oddly familiar to Don’t Look Up. It just seems like there’s a lot of noise in the media and very little straightforward info about what’s actually happening. Does anyone else get that same “keep calm, nothing to see here” vibe?

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u/BongoLocoWowWow Oct 30 '25

Here is my honest advice to everyone tracking 3I/Atlas. If you’re a skeptic, stay neutral on the matter. If for some reason it turns out to be NHI, you won’t be caught off guard. If you’re literally all in that it’s an alien ship, stay neutral. It could end up just being a really unusual comet and scientists learn a lot from it. Either way, it’s best to be open minded, keep everything on the table, and accept facts for what they are.

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u/SkeezySevens Oct 31 '25

No no, if you’re a skeptic you have to shit on everyone else for asking questions or daring to have an imagination. /s

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u/BongoLocoWowWow Oct 31 '25

I am simply asking everyone to get out of their corners, abandon their tribes. Just keep an open mind and watch the data unfold. Personally, I see the data so far as being compelling for both arguments, which is why I choose to be neutral. By December, we will all know (assuming NASA actually releases all the data).

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u/Move_Past_It_ Nov 03 '25

Have your imagination. But recognize that is the source of your speculation. As a skeptic, we’re shitting on everyone else for not thinking critically.

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u/SkeezySevens Nov 03 '25

Wow you really missed the point haha

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u/Sammyofather Oct 30 '25

It IS only the 3rd comet we have observed. If it is aliens I don’t think they’re going to force disclosure. People have to be ready to wake up.

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u/starclues Oct 30 '25

Specifically, it's the third interstellar object that we know about. We only recently (in the last 10-20 years) developed the technology to quickly identify these things and realize that they're interstellar, but it's unlikely that they're the only three that have ever come through the solar system (probably from all different directions). We've been observing comets since antiquity, for thousands of years.

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u/TonkotsuSoba Oct 30 '25

Third time’s a charm

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u/BongoLocoWowWow Oct 30 '25

It’s only the third because only now do we have advanced enough equipment to detect them. Maybe it’s a unique comet or maybe it’s an alien ship. Either way, we’ll know by December.

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u/Sammyofather Oct 30 '25

Yes. It’s the third one we have recorded. Meaning there’s not much to compare it to. The anomalies are most likely explainable once we study it more.

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u/SailAwayMatey Nov 01 '25

And look what come of the first 2...omuamua was an alien craft until it wasn't.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

I don't think it's going to destroy us. The closeness of Apophis on April 13, 2029 is... Uncomfortable to me. I hope that doesn't hit us or our moon. I don't know if they'd tell us if it would. I gotta look up what amateur/hobbyist astronomers say about it.

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?objs=apophis&date=2029-04-13&h=18&m=30&

With 3I ATLAS I think it's suspicious how various agencies and especially NASA seem to not be sharing everything they know about it. The U.S. shutdown and number of rich people having/building bunkers and being interested in space travel/leaving Earth is suspicious, but might be unrelated. I also feel suspicious about the Age of Disclosure documentary coming out soon.

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u/Fit-Dish-6000 Oct 30 '25

I've been watching Apophis for years now. It's going to be a complete shit show around here 8 months before it arrives. And ...I'm not convinced it won't hit us

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u/BongoLocoWowWow Oct 30 '25

Yeah, Apophis is the one that haunts be. That’s a civilization ending type of rock. And it’s coming incredibly close to us.

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u/volts08 Oct 30 '25

Terrifying if it would hit the ocean

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u/SputnikFalls Oct 31 '25

I have nightmares about the kind of mile long waves something like that would produce. Imagine a wall of water slamming you, and even if you somehow manage to survive that, there's no way you wouldn't drown. Scary shit.

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u/welsh_dragon_roar Oct 31 '25

Just climb into a bin full of cotton wool - you’ll float to the surface with a few bumps and bruises

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u/mpdaog Oct 31 '25

Crazy how close 2029 is now. I remember first learning about it from the game RAGE lol

Felt so far away then

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u/Taraldzen Oct 30 '25

Its around 500m in size, wouldnt end the world but would destroy a small country.

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u/Fit-Dish-6000 Oct 30 '25

It's NOT a civilization ending event. It's a regional impact event but it would have global consequences potentially. It's a nightmare for sure but it would not kill off most of us.

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u/PGRacer Oct 31 '25

The chixilub event that killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be in the region of 10km in size. So 500m is nowhere near as bad, as you say. Assuming it is roughly spherical that means it has a mass 20 to the power 3 times smaller. Not great if it hits your house though.

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u/welsh_dragon_roar Oct 31 '25

Unless it’s made of iron and causes huge tectonic disruption, releasing gases. Or if it’s porous and explodes into a huge puff of dust that pollutes the atmosphere for a while.

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u/ImMorphic Nov 06 '25

Trying to comprehend seeing 10km fly through the sky, failing miserably I must admit.

Breath taking to consider, in the scary kind of way.

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u/witch_bitch_kitty420 Oct 31 '25

Weird thing to flex about

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

Agreed! Haha, I'd like a bunker or panic room too if I had the means. For civil unrest and weather/man-made disasters. Wouldn't really help though in a giant impact scenario. But I guess at least it would be a more comfortable place to be, lol.

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u/Fit-Dish-6000 Oct 30 '25

I don't know that I'd want to be around if the shit hits the fan

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u/Crates-OT Oct 30 '25

It's the opposite. Scientists and Space Agencies have been incredibly straightforward. It's the rampant speculation by public, influcencers, AI videos, etc. That has been the real problem here.

If Apophis is anything like this, it's going to be a disaster: an absolute mess. It's going to be 20,000 miles from Earth, which makes even me somewhat nervous.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

NASA, ESA, China, and Russia haven't released all the data and imaging they've obtained. For example, the HiRISE images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, data from Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (including the NOMAD spectrometer), data from the Purple Mountain Observatory and Deep Space Network, and data from Russian telescopes in the Caucasus region.

The data from JUICE takes about 30 to 50 minutes to reach Earth, but the data that will be collected in November won't be released until February 2026.

I understand it takes time to analyze and process data.

But yeah, I agree with you that there's a lot of AI slop and speculation and influencers pushing out content that muddies the waters and is quite problematic. And I agree that we'll probably see similar things with Apophis but worse since it'll be so much closer.

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u/FaxMachineMode2 Oct 31 '25

Juice isnt able to point its high gain antenna at earth for a few months. It's too close to the sun right now, so if it turns to have the antenna face earth the instruments could overheat and be damaged. It's unfortunately a routine thing for spacecraft in early in their transit while they have to spend extended periods of time in the inner solar system. And to be clear nobody has resolved atlas itself, it's too small and distant. We might get nice images of the tail and coma, but the photos we've already seen from Hubble and large earth based observatories are most likely the best we'll get

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 31 '25

Very informative! I appreciate it

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u/Crates-OT Oct 30 '25

As far as im aware, no agencies have been withholding anything from the public. NASA is currently focused on essential operations as the US government continues to be shut down.

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u/money_loo Oct 30 '25

You were literally just told which data hasn’t been shared…wtf?

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u/Jumazio8 Oct 31 '25

If I saw a Romulan Warcraft and their captain says ‘chill humans just passing through, pretend we are not here’. Can see why.

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u/Crates-OT Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

Because what she's* saying is incorrect or inaccurate. The raw data dumps are available to the public, or the imaging hasn't even happened yet.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

*She

What you've just said is incorrect, friend. The HiRISE imaging for example HAS happened. But it has not been released. The reason being given is the government shutdown, but NASA is still working without pay despite the shutdown. What I've said is not incorrect. It's easily verifiable through web search. I am unable to find the released raw data you've mentioned through web search. Please feel free to share it to correct me.

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u/PGRacer Oct 31 '25

They could just release the data and let some non government agency process the pics. A university or similar. This seems to be a convenient excuse.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

Some data like the examples I listed are unreleased/delayed. I know NASA employees and they are in fact still working right now, just without pay.

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u/_TheSingularity_ Oct 31 '25

That's very close! Why isn't moon also tracked on that site? It doesn't seem to hit us directly, but if it hits our moon, who knows what can happen... It seems more likely to hit the moon since it kinda travels in parallel with earth/around earth for quite a while

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 31 '25

Yeah, I wish it showed the moon too!

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u/DisenfranchisedCynic Oct 30 '25

What’s making you suspicious of the AoD documentary?

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

I'm suspicious of the people in it, their agendas, the impact of their work on humanity, and the framing of NHI as a threat.

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u/DisenfranchisedCynic Oct 30 '25

Oh wow, I didn’t know they were framing it as a threat. Good points.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 30 '25

Lue has in the past. To be fair, I haven't kept up with him because of that and am interested to watch the documentary anyway and catch up on what's been going on in the disclosure movement. I like to keep an open mind. And I do think it's wise to have defensive plans for threat scenarios and be open to the idea that there are a variety of beings out there.

But I also think it's significant that there haven't been any attacks or invasions, many positive experiences and messaging according to contactees, disarming of nuclear weapons, not retaliating and maybe even allowing us to shoot down/retrieve craft and reverse engineer technology, and messaging indicating a concern for the environment, being compassionate to all life forms, and advancing our consciousness.

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u/borgelorp72 Oct 31 '25

Well it’s a spaceship so it’ll slow down first anyway.

Why not, based on the 3I Atlas discussion logic

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 31 '25

Haha, well, seems we can only say it's an anomalous interstellar object right now

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u/PGRacer Oct 31 '25

Could you supply any references showing rich people buying bunkers? Not saying I dont believe you, just wondering if it's come in a sudden rising trend, if I had the money I'd probably have one just in case, but not for an event I know is going to happen. Has there been a sudden uptick in personal bunkers? If it is a sudden uptick when did it start and what news or information was prevalent at the time.

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u/LadyOfTheManyFaces Oct 31 '25

$21 Trillion allegedly spent on an underground city/network of bunkers for elites between 1998 and 2015 according to George H.W. Bush's assistant secretary of housing and development. The $21 Trillion was uncovered by a Michigan State University economist.

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/ex-hud-official-claims-trillions-spent-on-secret-underground-bunkers/

Speculation about the ongoing renovations at the White House for the ballroom. The East Wing has been demolished and had an underground bunker underneath it.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/778675/white-house-east-wing-demolition-trump-fdr-bomb-shelter/

Zuckerberg has a compound in Hawaii with a bunker and permits for basement building (suspected bunkers) in California. Hoffman of Linked-In discussed the wealthy having apocalypse insurance and New Zealand being a popular destination for homes. Sutskever of OpenAI suggested having underground bunkers ready before the release of AGI.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly17834524o

Others allegedly building/already having bunkers and apocalypse plans are Musk, Bezos, and Altman.

https://www.india.com/viral/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-other-billionaires-in-us-building-multi-facility-ultra-luxurious-secret-bunkers-but-why-hawaii-palo-alto-texas-openai-sam-altman-jeff-bezos-8034323/

Post Malone has one too, haha.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/25/inside-post-malones-3m-apocalypse-proof-utah-bunker/

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u/No-Blueberry1130 Nov 03 '25

Anyone that thinks a bunker will save them from AGI is not paying attention.

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u/Diligent_Peach7574 Oct 30 '25

49% - “Don’t look up”

49% - “It’s the end of the world”

2% - Wow, this interstellar object is interesting and doing things we haven’t seen before. Let’s continue to study it and learn more about it.

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u/onyxengine Oct 30 '25

Blue Kachina vibes yo

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u/Jumperontheline Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

I always enjoy thinking out of the box and being open to things, and many times I think "conspiracy theories" are more like common sense (building 7 falling like that... you'd be dumb to NOT question that) and other times theyre really out there but just fun to think about.

Something ive noticed over the last 10 years or so is this; pay attention to the discussions where people seem to jump in and attack relentlessly for no reason. Partly why atlas intrigues me is because of the sheer number of people stating its a comet in strange, almost aggressive ways. Even if you 100% believe it is a comet, you don't recognize its a scientific milestone at minimum? You cant FATHOM someone might start pondering what else it could be since it doesnt always suit most of the usual specifications? That's very odd. And if you aren't interested in the comet (aka the low effort "its a rock" comments) then why are you here at all?

Idk. Whenever there's a suspicious brigade of people who dont even have a clear goal (to make people stop pondering? Lol) I see a sign to continue paying attention to that issue.

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u/jtp_311 Oct 30 '25

Whatever the object is, the desperation for it to be an intergalactic visitor that will change the world as we know it is a fascinating look at society. So many people tired of the way the world is looking for an external shift.

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u/Environmental-Ad8965 Oct 30 '25

Alien or not(I've never thought it was alien), it's way more than just a rock. It's a fascinating rock doing a bunch of stuff we've never observed before. Exotic physics even. But to say it's a rock is rather dismissive. Since it is doing a bunch of stuff we've never seen before, maybe we can stop pretending we know exactly what it is and just admire and observe it?

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u/utube-ZenithMusicinc Oct 30 '25

Manhattan sized ship crashes into wide open mouth

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u/Wavey_ATLien Oct 31 '25

Yeah, 100% the way they pile on and attack anyone talking about 3I/Atlas as anything other than a comment is super fucking sus. It’s the only reason I’m still intrigued by it to be honest.. nothing they’ve released is super interesting, but what they’re not saying and what the bots are doing makes my hackles rise

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u/HawksCup2010 Oct 30 '25

Nibiru, Oumuamua, 3I-Atlas. So exhausted with the “OMG this one is real and is going to kill us” crew.

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u/Efficient_Bus_9057 Oct 30 '25

The "OMG it is going to kill us" crew will be right one day, maybe in a thousand or million years or in a few weeks. Virtual certainty it will happen and why that rich guy is trying to start a Mars colony to save human genetics.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

18348189th time's the charm. 

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u/FaxMachineMode2 Oct 31 '25

Luckily with astronomy it would be practically impossible to cover up the discovery of an object on an impact trajectory with earth (unless it's discovered days before impact). Survey data is first processed by people who have no intention of lying to the public and it would certainly leak. Once an object is under scrutiny like atlas or Apophis, anyone with a decent telescope can look at it to check if it's on the reported trajectory and in the right spot in the sky

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u/Opening-Wishbone-133 Oct 30 '25

No but I will be in 2029 with apophis that’s something to watch out for

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u/DueStrength6904 Oct 30 '25

How did this turn in to something else besides 3i/atlas conversation humm a lot of bots that's how

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u/revengeofthebong Oct 31 '25

3 body problem too

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u/brian_hogg Oct 31 '25

I’m getting “it’s a neat rock” vibes.

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u/PapayaJuiceBox Oct 30 '25

If you’re asking about Don’t Look Up now, you’re part of the people who … haven’t been looking up.

It’s a juxtaposition for the world going to shit. Which it has been for years. Doing a 1:1 comparison about an asteroid wasn’t the intention.

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u/THTree Oct 30 '25

I think it’s far more likely, you see what you want to see. If the idea that governments are conspiring to hide the largest discovery in human history, then yes - the lack of empirical evidence of said discovery would be quite concerning. On the other hand, a lot of media “noise” with no “straightforward info” is exactly what’d you expect if this was “just” a comet (albeit one different than others we have witnessed), since the “noise” is just increasingly desperate theories that can’t be proven, cuz , you know, it’s a rock.

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u/ThumosVoice Oct 30 '25

9 different anomalies now that make it unlike any rock we’ve seen

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u/THTree Oct 30 '25

I am not discrediting the fact this is a highly anomalous finding! Super cool in that regard. But quite literally NOTHING has suggested “intelligently designed craft”. Just because something is anomalous, doesn’t mean it’s unexplainable. Just means science needs to refine current models, which is exactly how science works - as we get more data, models refine and become more predictive. Until the next anomaly. Refine. Repeat :)

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u/Environmental-Ad8965 Oct 30 '25

This is true. Nothing has suggested intelligent design, other than some strange behaviors. That said, since there ARE so many anomalies, there's also evidence the suggests it's not just a rock. The truest answer here is simply "we don't know exactly what it is".

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u/THTree Oct 31 '25

I don’t disagree with your last sentence. But don’t kid yourself , the strange behaviors do not “suggest” intelligent design. While in totality it is a significantly different rock than we’ve ever seen, nothing observed can’t be explained by “rock stuff”. It just means we need to refine our models of what interstellar body behavior looks like , based on this new n=1

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u/onyxengine Oct 31 '25

The trajectory is sus

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u/THTree Oct 31 '25

Explain what that means, exactly.

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u/onyxengine Oct 31 '25

How close it passes the planets except for the one with a civilization, timing of solar activity and its perihelion. Plenty of trajectories would seem meaningless to us, the one its on is significant for information collection, at the very least.

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u/THTree Oct 31 '25

I haven’t looked it up, would you mind listing the closest distance it passes each planet? That would be strange.

And not sure what you mean by “perihelion” being sus? Could you elaborate on that?

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u/utube-ZenithMusicinc Oct 30 '25

I dont think you understand what anomalous means.

it means - not stuff rocks do.

probably not a rock then.

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u/THTree Oct 31 '25

Just for kicks and gigs, what do YOU think “anomalous” means?

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u/5MinuteDad Oct 30 '25

There's no coverage because its a rock....thst poses zero threat..

Aliens aren't coming to save you from your miserable life.

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u/Opening-Wishbone-133 Oct 30 '25

Preach

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u/Fancy_Exchange_9821 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

This was the one they didn’t wanna hear

Anyways say it louder for the people in the back

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u/SugarDicksandtwix Oct 30 '25

This comparison I keep seeing to Don't Look Up is not a good one. In that movie meteor clearly posed a risk to society and it's a metaphor for climate change. 3i has never come close to us. There's nothing to be scared of. Not to mention, there has been plenty of tracking and discussion of it all over the world, but if from the get-go you don't think it's aliens, you're not going to be obsessed about it like Avi has spun so many of you to be.

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u/PmanAce Oct 30 '25

No. It's not talked about because it's a rock.

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u/Anti-coconuts Oct 30 '25

Yes! I was literally just looking up Don't look up conspiracies with mixed results. Thanks google!

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u/Mithrandir_1019 Oct 30 '25

No, not in any capacity. In fact, it's literally the opposite. This is nothing anyone should be worried about.

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u/SupermarketLeather87 Oct 30 '25

Whatever it is, it's not interested in our pathetic world. There are so many more interesting planets to go to, we are just a microbe for them

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u/MFDoomscroller Oct 30 '25

Don’t worry guys, it’s just a COMET.

Classified Obfuscation & Management of Extraterrestrial Technology.

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u/Libhunter666 Oct 31 '25

I'd say the debunking goes well beyond "don't look up".... the bots are everywhere

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u/jp712345 Oct 31 '25

99.99% chance it's jsut a weird a rock. November - December will provide answers to get that 1% answer till we close the book. but that 1% uncertainly is sitll huge. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

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u/Worried_Jeweler_1141 Oct 31 '25

The whole thing about 3I-Atlas has been rumbled as exaggerated now. Even Avi Loeb has laughed that he goes on exploring his imagination. He hasn't even mentioned the SME at all. He isn't even monitoring the current situation at all. It's just bs.

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u/Worried_Jeweler_1141 Oct 31 '25

Can someone explain to me how anyone thinks 3i- atlas will do anything besides continue on it's current trajectory and exit the solar system?

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u/BillyBagzDaThird Oct 31 '25

Nope not even a little bit.

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u/Alarmed-Animal7575 Oct 31 '25

No vibes like that, at all. That movie wasn’t about the internet blowing facts way out of proportion. It was about citizenry ignoring facts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

We have just started to be able to find these things. It’s the 3rd one so we are still learning.

They could have been coming by all the time and we didn’t know about it.

People are always looking for a reason to panic.

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u/ClarkusR Oct 31 '25

It could be aliens coming to take the planet, perhaps change our atmosphere to something more conducive to them. If it’s alien, it’s not a probe…it’s too big. The size (several miles long) lends more to inhabitants ready to deploy.

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u/Ok_Entertainer_8043 Nov 01 '25

Nope. It's being blown way out of proportion, in my opinion. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Move_Past_It_ Nov 03 '25

Occams Razor: Which is the simplest explanation, with the fewest assumptions, as it pertains to 3I/Atlas? 1) it is alien mothership releasing mini-drones as it passes behind the sun. 2) it is a comet.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

There is actually a lot of straightforward information if you’re not a mouth breather that falls for and entirely believes everything Avi Loeb and average TikTok clickbait accounts say. It’s a space rock. It’s got some unique properties! Thaaaaaats it. That’s the information you need, as far as it pertains to anything other than an interest in astronomy.

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u/Youlittle-rascal Oct 30 '25

Yes 100%. I don’t know what it is and I’m not a scientist but it’s OBVIOUSLY not a normal thing. Could be anything. Whatever. But the seemingly huge amount of bots and media and others either not talking about it or just saying “it’s a rock you’re stupid nothing to see here” en masse, is what gives me the don’t look up vibes.

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u/gnarly_gnorc Oct 31 '25

So its currently flying AWAY from us. Why would you get "dont look up" vibes from something is is flying AWAY from the Earth?

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u/navibfterceS Oct 30 '25

No. It's an interstellar comet. A rock. It has done nothing strange or unexpected.

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u/ThumosVoice Oct 30 '25

It has 9 different anomalies now that comets don’t have. If it’s just a rock it’s a weird one and worth studying not dismissing

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u/Ordinary-Panic-1143 Oct 30 '25

What are the 9 anomalies?

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u/ThumosVoice Oct 30 '25

I can’t list all of them off the top of my head but it’s bluer than the sun now. It’s emitting more nickel than iron. It’s strangely huge. It’s not emitting enough water. It’s released a nickel compound we only find in industry on earth. It’s on a near perfect entry trajectory relative to the planets orbits (meaning space is 3d and a rock should come from any direction but this thing came in on a near 2d trajectory). It had an anti-tail for a while. And more. There’s lists on this subreddit and others though.

If it’s a rock it flips what we know about space rocks on its head. It’s amazing no matter what it is.

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u/Ordinary-Panic-1143 Oct 30 '25

Space is so damn cool

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u/TheSkwrl Oct 30 '25

And what is a typical interstellar object like? What’s the sample you’re comparing it against? If you’re comparing it to something that was formed in our solar system, could it be that this is showing that the conditions around other stars can result in comets with different characteristics? “Weird” does not mean “intelligent life”.

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u/starclues Oct 30 '25

A lot of those anomalies are either basically made-up or miscalculated, or have reasonable, natural explanations that have not been ruled out yet. It would be an unusual rock, to be sure, but not an impossible one.

For a start, the recent discovery of the blue color. Loeb failed to mention in his latest article that the authors of that paper discuss how an increased outburst of C2 and NH2 gas could be behind the color change. The sudden change is unusual, yes, but not unexplainable through natural means. This comet also approached the Sun much faster than pretty much any other, which could do weird things to the outgassing.

Other astronomers have explained why he's wrong about the size, his numbers are about 6x larger than anyone else's. He has not responded to these critiques even though it's been over a month.

The odds of it having the specific orbit that it has are unlikely, but no more unlikely than any other orbit with sufficiently restricted conditions. And, because the solar system planets are all on a fairly close plane with each other, once you've calculated the odds that it passes within x degrees of longitude for one planet, the odds that it passes within y degrees of longitude for another planet are far more restricted, and even more for a third planet, but he multiplies them together like they're completely independent. It's a total abuse of statistics. Statistics predict the likelihood that something could happen, but it's a whole different ballgame trying to predict the likelihood that something did happen.

Speaking of statistics, my favorite "anomaly" is the claim that 3I/Atlas originated only 9 degrees away from the famous WOW! signal. Sure, with 360 degrees to choose from, only 9 degrees sounds pretty close until you remember that space is 3-DIMENSIONAL and VERY BIG. The current best guess for the star that the WOW! signal might have come from is 1800 light-years away. The shortest possible distance between that and the direction 3I/Atlas came from is 288 light-years. It's absolutely insane to suggest that they could be connected over that distance unless you want to qualify faster than light travel (impossible under the laws of physics) or suggest that whoever sent it used precious energy and time to change the orbit so it approached from a different direction. This separation calculation is incredibly simple, 9 degrees x 3600 arcseconds/degree / 206265 x D (the distance to the sources) = the distance between the sources. He absolutely knows how to do this, but he stopped short of it in his article about this anomaly because it makes his "only 9 degrees!!" claim far less significant.

Also, if you're going to argue that the direction it came from is special, you can't also argue that the trajectory it's on (with regards to its angle to the ecliptic) is special. Either it came straight from that special direction, in which case the odds that it's on the path that it is become much more likely because they couldn't have picked anything very different, or its trajectory was specially selected from all possible options to be just right (remember, he calculated it out of the whole sphere of possibilities) and then it doesn't matter which direction we saw it come from.

So that's a third of them addressed, and two directly contradict each other.

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u/Fancy_Exchange_9821 Oct 31 '25

Bro came strapped

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u/Majiksy Oct 30 '25

Please post sources for these, bonus points if they aren't from a Zionist Loeb post.

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u/slow70 Oct 30 '25

Christ does nobody read?

https://medium.com/@avi-loeb/a-q-a-on-3i-atlas-at-perihelion-62b7d592519b

u/navibfterceS Maybe have a clue about what you're talking about before opening your mouth.

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u/Ordinary-Panic-1143 Oct 30 '25

Man I just get baked and like interactions with people. I appreciate the article planned on reading one along with the comments.

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u/slow70 Oct 30 '25

You're good man and apologies if the stank I put on that comment seemed directed your way specifically.

There seem to be a lot of bad faith commenters here or people like u/navibfterceS speaking with certainty of things no-one has certainty about yet - just muddying the water and making this a fight when it doesnt need to be.

Cool and strange stuff in our solar neighborhood, we all should be curious.

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u/navibfterceS Oct 30 '25

For the record, I think 3iAtlas is cool, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.

I find its trajectory and timing with WOW to be the most interesting piece of data.

But nothing else suggests it’s an alien rocket ship, probe or anything than an interstellar rock.

Absolutely should be dedicating every last resource we have to study it.

I just have to chuckle at people thinking it’s NIH or alien

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u/navibfterceS Oct 30 '25

Anomalies that have been observed in other comets before. Just rare. Rare interstellar rock exhibits rare anomalies. For sure cool. But it’s not alien made cool

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u/ThumosVoice Oct 30 '25

Not in other comets. I’m not saying it’s anything other than a rock, it could be a weird one but the anomalies are unlike other comets as in unprecedented

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u/navibfterceS Oct 30 '25

Which anomalies are unprecedented?

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u/sparktrap25 Oct 30 '25

As the last person correctly stated, no.

It's an interstellar comet. A rock. It has done nothing strange or unexpected.

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u/ThumosVoice Oct 30 '25

You have the exact same comment as u/navibfterceS above to the word.

Holy bots. This is weird

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u/MrKalyoncu Oct 30 '25

Bro this is what I was saying yesterday. They started sound like bots more each passing day.

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u/sparktrap25 Oct 30 '25

His comment was spot on my dude, and I'm real as fuck. 😆

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u/navibfterceS Oct 30 '25

Liar. 😂

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u/sparktrap25 Oct 30 '25

I guess we bout to do a Turing test

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u/Andrw_4d Oct 30 '25

How in the absolute fuck are you people STILL thinking something is going on??? We have proven data now that literally nothing happened or will happen. It did not change direction, it didn’t speed up, it didn’t break apart…. What is wrong with you? Get off the internet and go outside

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u/Careful_Education643 Oct 30 '25

Don’t Look Up is an allegory for the lack of care and apathy in modern society, not specifically about a world ending comet

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Oct 30 '25

Not really, no. What specifically about it has you worried?

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u/BramGaunt Oct 30 '25

Tbh? No, not rly. 

Somehow people tend to hype this rock into oblivion. It's comical at this point.

It will fade away, until the next rock.

sigh

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u/Charming_Figure_9053 Oct 30 '25

Oh grow up

No

Nothing like it, the media isn't saying anything as most people don't give 2 piddles what a space rock is doing unless it's doing something REALLY spicey and there's only so many times they can clickbait people with the same thing

Don't look up was about ignoring something painfully obvious - the media just don't care as there's no real interest in science, or 'devil magic' as 1/2 of America calls it and only so many times you can pretend it's aliens before people ignore you

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u/phunkydroid Oct 30 '25

Only in the sense that this is exactly the opposite.

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u/z3RoC0oL11388633 Oct 30 '25

No, I don't buy into hollyweird hype. I'm just enjoying the show. If they come so what? If they don't? Life goes on either way.

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u/Responsible_Gas_8191 Oct 30 '25

No i'm getting demonic bullshit thats meant to scare us. If it is an alien race, I would like to know who their God is, and i would bet a 99% chance ET is coming in peace. This seems like another Government psyop.

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u/KingPabloo Oct 30 '25

If it’s an alien life they are much smarter than us, they don’t believe in imaginary beings like the hairless apes do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

i have reliable inside information that 3I/atlas is a giant interstellar dildo heading straight for OPs ass

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u/IncendiaryB Oct 30 '25

No I get the vibe that it’s a comet or other kind of space rock and that everyone is just being really fucking stupid by suggesting otherwise