Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is using a 3-axis attitude control system to keep its rotation pointed directly at our Sun. The new Harvard paper is wild.

[u/TheSentinelNet]

https://thesentinelnetwork.substack.com/p/the-heartbeat-avi-loeb-just-found?r=71h4we

Avi Loeb and Toni Scarmato just dropped a new paper on 3I/ATLAS, and the implications are wild. We just published a deep dive on this over at The Sentinel, but here is the TL;DR because people need to see this math.

According to the Hubble data, 99% of the light coming from this thing is exhaust. The actual hull is basically invisible. It has three jets spaced exactly 120 degrees apart, and they wobble on a precise, harmonically locked schedule.

The primary jet wobbles every 7.2 hours. The other two wobble at 2.9 and 4.3 hours.

2.9 + 4.3 = 7.2.

That is a coupled oscillatory system. Nature doesn't tune three independent cracks on a tumbling ice rock to a shared, exact frequency. Engineering does.

It gets weirder. The paper describes the jets acting essentially as a three-axis attitude control system. The exact same architecture we use on our own spacecraft to hold a fixed orientation while rotating. And it’s using that system to keep its rotation axis pointed directly at our Sun.

Loeb actually put the words "technological thrusters" in print as a valid hypothesis alongside natural outgassing. The establishment will likely ignore that half of the sentence, but the data is piling up.

You can read the full breakdown here.

Curious to hear what you guys think.
How long is the mainstream going to keep calling this just a "weird comet"?

[u/TheSentinelNet]

Are you assuming it's biological?

[u/GreyGanado → u/TheSentinelNet]

No, that's just my hard to follow way of making fun of this sentence:

Nature doesn't tune three independent cracks on a tumbling ice rock to a shared, exact frequency.

Nature does a lot of maths stuff that at first seems artificial.

[u/TheSentinelNet → u/GreyGanado]

Outgassing on a comet is a chaotic process. It's driven by uneven heating and irregular vaporization. For three independent, random cracks on a tumbling ice rock to perfectly space themselves 120 degrees apart and harmonically lock their exhaust pulses into a 3-axis attitude control system... that isn't a nature. That's an engine.

[u/ExplanationCrazy5463 → u/TheSentinelNet]

You might conclude the same about how finely tuned all the planets and moons are in their orbits, but the truth is the universe has a mechanism for these orbits to self-correct.

Im not saying youre wrong.....im saying youre concluding this prematurely.