[quantim]

Much of this is nonsense such as an “interstellar comet” as there is really no such thing as they would disintegrate over the tens of thousands of years it would take for a single straight line trip. Astronomers and astrophysicists would never make such a foolish comment.

[webheart]

I don’t want to get insulty but what makes you think a comet like mass is going to disintegrate in ten thousand years? How does it form in the first place? Where does the energy come from that is going to melt it? No, it’s just as likely that it is millions or billions of years old and will not disintegrate in the next 10 million years.

[cgbg]

“Much of this is nonsense such as an “interstellar comet” as there is really no such thing as they would disintegrate over the tens of thousands of years it would take for a single straight line trip. Astronomers and astrophysicists would never make such a foolish comment.”

The problem is that these days astronomers and astrophysicists are nutty as fruit cakes:

NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/08/25/nasas-webb-space-telescope-observes-interstellar-comet/

More NASA:
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2025/07/02/nasa-discovers-interstellar-comet-moving-through-solar-system/

[PIF]

Much of this is nonsense such as an “interstellar comet” as there is really no such thing as they would disintegrate over the tens of thousands of years it would take for a single straight line trip. Astronomers and astrophysicists would never make such a foolish comment.

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Yet there it is - and tell int to I2 Borisov which passed thorough last year.

Foolish comments are the providence of FR commenters, not astronomers and astrophysicists