Posted on 08/12/2025 3:12:31 PM PDT by fruser1
Scientists are urging NASA to send a message to a mysterious interstellar object before it is too late.
The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, is traveling on a rare retrograde path and will reach its closest point to the sun on October 29, 2025, which Harvard physicist Avi Loeb suggested could be an ideal window for a covert approach on Earth.
While Loeb is not 100 percent sure 3I/ATLAS is of alien origin, he proposed communicating with it as a precaution and crafted a six-word message for the occasion.
The physicist told the Daily Mail that he wants to beam, 'Hello, welcome to our neighborhood. Peace!'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He’s still infatuated with Star Trek!
PUHleeeeze do not eat us all!...
Very few signals from Earth would have the strength to be detected from more than a handful of light years.
Maybe it will get sucked into the gravitational field of Uranus.
(Whoops)
That’s retarded.
“Greetings! Piece? Very well, as we are compassionate beings we shall grant you your wish and rend you into pieces. Honestly, we were just going to vaporize you painlessly, but since you insist!”
Zot NYC and Wash DC please
SF and Chicongo if you have charge left over.
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object confirmed passing through the Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (discovered in October 2017) and 2I/Borisov (discovered in August 2019).
And we all know that the Ramans do everything in threes!!!
-PJ
And directions to where a good egg roll can be found.
I volunteer to lead the counter-strike on their home world if they vivisect any of our welcoming party.
Just ask it to do a divide by zero calculation. That will keep it occupied until it is long gone.
“Come any closer it’s E=mc2”
“Klaatu. Barada. Nikto”
Remember they will eat the fat ones first.
I forgot once again the 1950s SF film in which a trusting priest or minister reads from the Bible as he walks up a ramp toward the alien spaceship and gets burned up by a heat ray.
And as sportscaster Bob Costas said:
“They can put a man on the moon but nobody outside of Brooklyn can make a decent egg cream.” 🥛
Better to take bids on corporations like naming of sports stadiums.
High bid gets the advertising message which is quoted across the world news outlets.
With all the coherent radio transmissions eminating from earth, any half way sophisticated sensor at that range would detect that there is a technologically advanced civilization on earth.
The puny antennas on Voyager can pick up signals from nine billion miles. I am certain the earth fairly glows red hot in the radio frequency spectrum.
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