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The six-word plea scientists aim to send before mysterious interstellar object reaches Earth
UK Daily Mail ^ | 8/12/2025 | Stacy Liberatore

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 ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: 20251029; 3iatlas; astronomy; aviloeb; fringe; harvard; science; ufo
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To: Political Junkie Too

I read somewhere that the estimates are that there are about 10 interstellar objects greater than one kilometer diameter inside the solar system on average at any time. We only detect the bigger ones, occasionally.


61 posted on 08/12/2025 4:34:46 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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To: fruser1

Welcome Kanamits. Please don’t eat us.


62 posted on 08/12/2025 4:34:54 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: fruser1


63 posted on 08/12/2025 4:43:40 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: JesusIsLord
Some stupid hippy will mess it up for everbody.


64 posted on 08/12/2025 4:44:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fruser1

Heh, Scripture makes a couple references in the book of Revelation about some large object falling from the sky and poisoning the waters. I believe there are more, causing other problems.

They think that message will reassure the potential aliens that we’re benign? Have they looked at the shape our planet is in now???????


65 posted on 08/12/2025 4:45:14 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: GingisK

Not yet.

However, there are several large cities and democrat strongholds I can think of.

Decisions, decisions......


66 posted on 08/12/2025 4:46:08 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: dfwgator
Some stupid hippy will mess it up for everybody.

Excellent!!

67 posted on 08/12/2025 4:48:11 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Night Hides Not

Classic.


68 posted on 08/12/2025 5:00:11 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: BenLurkin

“What difference, now, does it make?”


69 posted on 08/12/2025 5:02:30 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Providing that they are still using radio at all.

Look how quickly we switched to no longer using radio but going to streaming and cable.

In a couple of decades we might no longer be transmitting at all. And they will think we all died off.

70 posted on 08/12/2025 5:03:02 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: fruser1

“Put the first shot on Harvard.”


71 posted on 08/12/2025 5:08:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: fruser1

someone should let the esteemed scientist know... no matter how much doctor who they’ve watched, if there are aliens on that rock, odds are goods they don’t speak english.


72 posted on 08/12/2025 5:08:23 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: MtnClimber

Whatever radio signal we send to them essentially says, “Hey you guys, we’re over here.” Nothing good can come of this.


73 posted on 08/12/2025 5:09:37 PM PDT by BullwinkleMoose
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To: metmom

Revelation 8
First Trumpet: hail and fire mixed with blood that annihilates 1/3 of all vegetation

Second Trumpet: something like a burning mountain lands in the ocean turning 1/3 of it to blood, destroying 1/3 of all shipping and 1/3 of all sea life.

Third Trumpet: a great start falls, burning like a torch, and poisons 1/3 of the rivers and springs of water killing masses who drink it.

Fourth Trumpet: the Sun, Moon and stars are stricken and 1/3 of them darkened.

But wait, there’s MORE: the next three trumpets are called The Three Woes, indicating that things are about to REALLY ramp up.

Nonetheless, The Revelator records that “The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands so as not to worship demons and the idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their witchcraft, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.”

Kinda like leftists and RINOs.


74 posted on 08/12/2025 5:17:10 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: dfwgator

Nice!

Wonder how many know the origin?


75 posted on 08/12/2025 5:17:46 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Waverunner

Exactly. Do nothing. Pretend we don’t see it. It may consider us harmless.


76 posted on 08/12/2025 5:18:03 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: fruser1

Rick Roll ‘em.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=-1mK-OdHY9QANC-6


77 posted on 08/12/2025 5:19:28 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: fruser1

“Earth needs thin women”


78 posted on 08/12/2025 5:22:02 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: fruser1

Maybe it’s one of those generational interstellar starships manned by the great, great, great great, great, great grandchildren of the original brave crew that set out from a dying planet on the hope of continuing their species beyond the stars.

Or maybe it’s just a big rock...
I dunno


79 posted on 08/12/2025 5:30:00 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: fruser1
Place one of these signs every 1,000,000 miles on the way to Earth. Maybe they will be so distracted they will pass by to find more.


80 posted on 08/12/2025 5:34:15 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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