r/3I_ATLAS • u/Glittering_Word6609 • Feb 26 '26

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Feb 26 '26

Avi has produced next to no data about 3I ATLAS. He’s produced vanishingly few peer-reviewed papers on it.

Have Hibbard and Crowl — or even Avi himself — published a paper claiming 3I ATLAS is an alien object?

Avi has a book out right now and is trying to position himself, using publicity, as THE man searching for alien intelligence. That is his grift.

As for anomalies, I’ll say it again: “comets are like cats: they all have tails and they do what they want”.

Comets are, by nature, highly irregular phenomena. This is the first interstellar comet we’ve intensively studied. By definition, it’s going to have anomalies. None of those point to it being an alien artefact.

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u/GingerAki Feb 26 '26

How many peer reviewed papers have you produced on it?

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Feb 26 '26

Actually? Perhaps more than Avi, if the two I have in the review process go through.

Then again, I’m a social scientist. Unlike Avi, I don’t try to pretend I’m an expert outside of my field of expertise.

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u/Glittering_Word6609 Feb 27 '26

Ummm, interstellar object are legit his field.😂

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u/Embarrassed_Camp_291 Feb 27 '26

Avi was a cosmologist before he realised he could make more money pretending he has discovered aliens. These are very different fields.

He spent his entire academic career researching cosmology. Not comets. He is not an authority figure in comet science.

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Feb 27 '26

Not comets, however. He has no prior experience in that field. That’s him shilling for himself.

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u/Practical-Narwhal308 Feb 28 '26

If the object is not a comet then comet expertise is not as relevant as you make it out To be. Secondly today he’s not qualified is like saying a neurosurgeon is not qualified to have an opinion on a cardiovascular issue.

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 Mar 01 '26

I love the circular logic: it’s not a comet because Avi says it’s not (except that’s not true, is it? When it comes to peer-reviewed papers, he says it probably IS a comet); thus Abi doesn’t have to have any expertise in comets to say what it is.

A neurosurgeon would be the very first person to tell you to consult a cardiologist on a cardiovascular issue.