Posted on 08/03/2025 7:23:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Harvard science professor Avi Loeb is among experts fascinated by an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS. Loeb suggests using the sunsetting NASA spacecraft Juno to intercept the object, which he says could be some sort of alien tech, for study. He tells "NewsNation Prime" that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., thinks the suggestion is worth evaluating.
Harvard professor suggests intercepting mysterious object 3I/ATLAS | NewsNation Prime | 6:47
NewsNation | 2.28M subscribers | 46,254 views | August 3, 2025
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(his accent wreaked havoc with YT's transcription software; not sure what the all-caps is about, unless the transcript was provided by NewsNation instead of the robot)
--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:03 · ...AND STICKING WITH SPACE TO 0:05 · SUPPOSE THAT COMMENT IS 0:06 · CATCHING THE ATTENTION OF SOME 0:07 · OF THE NATION'S MOST RENOWNED 0:09 · SCIENTISTS AS 1 HARVARD 0:11 · PROFESSOR IS RAISING THE 0:12 · THEORY. THIS MAY ACTUALLY BE A 0:13 · PIECE OF ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. 0:15 · ACCORDING TO RENOWNED 0:18 · THEORETICAL PHYSICIST 0:18 · PROFESSOR AVI LOEB. THE 0:19 · COMMENT IS ON AN EXTREMELY 0:22 · UNUSUAL PATH MOVING TOO FAST 0:24 · TO BE BOUND BY THE SUN'S 0:26 · GRAVITY BREAKING A TYPICALLY 0:27 · SEEN ORBITAL TRAJECTORY. AND 0:30 · WHILE THIS COMET POSES NO 0:31 · CURRENT THREAT. PROFESSOR LOEB 0:33 · BELIEVES MORE DATA SHOULD BE 0:34 · COLLECTED TO UNCOVER THE 0:34 · NATURE OF THIS OBJECT AND 0:37 · WHETHER IT HAS THE POTENTIAL 0:38 · TO CREATE RISKS IN THE FUTURE. 0:40 · JOINING US NOW TO DISCUSS 0:42 · MORE. IS THAT SCIENTIST 0:44 · HIMSELF HARVARD PROFESSOR OF 0:45 · SCIENCE AND AUTHOR OF 0:46 · EXTRATERRESTRIAL. THE FIRST 0:46 · SIGN OF INTELLIGENT LIFE 0:49 · BEYOND EARTH, AVI LOEB. 0:50 · PROFESSOR, IT'S ALWAYS SO GOOD 0:51 · TO SEE YOU. THANKS FOR JOINING 0:51 · US. TONIGHT. 0:54 · >> WONDERFUL SEE IN A FASHION. 0:55 · SO PROFESSOR LOBO YOUR RECENT 0:58 · PAPER SUGGESTS THAT THIS 0:58 · OBJECT MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ALIEN 1:00 · TECHNOLOGY RATHER THAN JUST 1:02 · ANOTHER COMMENT. WHAT EXACTLY 1:03 · ABOUT THE SPEED, THE 1:05 · TRAJECTORY, THE BEHAVIOR LEADS 1:06 · YOU TO CONSIDER THIS IS A 1:06 · POSSIBILITY. 1:10 · >> WELFARE RELATIVELY BRIGHT 1:11 · THE 40'S. THIS TENSE IMPLYING 1:14 · THAT DEFEATS ASSORTED 1:15 · OBJECTIVE HAS TO BE 20 QUE ON 1:15 · WHAT THEY'RE SEEING. THE 1:17 · AMATEUR THAT SAID TWICE BIG AS 1:20 · THAT GIANT ASTEROID THAT 1:22 · KILLED THE DINOSAURS 1:23 · 66 MILLION YEARS AGO AND THE 1:26 · PREVIOUS SUBJECTS WE SAW FROM 1:27 · HIM A SPACE WHERE ON ME 1:28 · HUNDREDS OF METERS IN SIZE. SO 1:32 · THERE IS JUST NOT ENOUGH ROCKY 1:33 · MATERIAL. YOU NEED TO START A 1:36 · SPACE TO PROVIDE US WITH A 20 1:39 · KILOMETER ROCK THAT APPEARS 1:40 · ONCE PER DECA. BUT THE MORE 1:44 · IMPORTANT TO THE TRAJECTORIES 1:46 · VERY UNUSUAL IT'S ALIGNED WITH 1:48 · THE ORBIT OF THE EARTH AROUND 1:50 · THE SUN AND THEN THE CHANCE OF 1:52 · THAT HAPPENING IS ONE IN 5 100 1:55 · AND THEN ALSO THE TIMING OF 1:58 · ARRIVAL. HE'S VERY FINE TUNED 2:00 · BECAUSE IT COMES VERY CLE TO 2:03 · JUPITER TO MARS AND VENUS AND 2:07 · THE CHANCE OF THAT HAPPENING 2:08 · IS ONE IN 20,000. AND 2:11 · MOREOVER, IT'S MOVING IN THE 2:13 · OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THE 2:13 · MOTION OF THE EARTH AROUND THE 2:15 · SUN AND WE COME CLOSEST TO THE 2:18 · SUN. THE OTHERS WILL BE ON THE 2:20 · OPPOSITE SIDE. SO WE WON'T BE 2:20 · ABLE TO OBSERVE IT. THAT THE 2:23 · POINT IN TIME WHEN CAN DO A 2:25 · MANEUVER WITH THE AID OF THE 2:28 · SUN'S GRAVITY AND THAT'S WHAT 2:30 · HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 29TH AND 2:34 · THAT I READ THE HEARD THAT 2:34 · FROM OFFEND THAT THEN HE IS 2:38 · TRADING OPTIONS AGAINST THE 2:39 · VOLATILITY OF THE MARKETS. 2:40 · STOCK MARKET WITH AN 2:43 · EXPIRATION DATE BECAUSE ALL 2:46 · OCTOBER 29 BECAUSE ITS A E AND 2:49 · TECH, YOU KNOW THAT WOULD THAT 2:53 · CHANGE AND THE FUTURE IN A 2:54 · QUITE DRAMATIC WEIGHT WOULD 2:55 · HAVE A HUGE. 2:56 · >> SO MANY QUESTIONS. SO I 2:58 · MEAN, IF I HAVE THIS CORRECT, 2:59 · I BELIEVE YOU'VE PROPOSED 3:01 · USING A RICHTER SCALE BEFORE 3:02 · TO ASSESS SUCH OBJECTS. 0 3:05 · MEANS THIS IS TOTALLY OF 3:05 · NATURAL ORIGIN. 10 MEANS THIS 3:06 · IS CLEARLY ENGINEERED BASED ON 3:09 · WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THIS OBJECT 3:11 · AND WHAT YOU'RE OBSERVING. 3:11 · WHAT NUMBER WOULD YOU GET IT 3:12 · NOW. 3:15 · >> WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DATA. 3:17 · IT DEPENDS HOW MUCH SHIP WAY 3:20 · TO GIVE TO THE UNUSUAL OR BEAT 3:21 · THE TRAJECTORY IS EXTREMELY 3:22 · RARE AND FINE TUNED AND 3:25 · DEPENDING ON THAT THE HOW MUCH 3:27 · YOU ASSIGNED TO THAT YOU WANT 3:31 · GIVE IT IRAN THAT IS SOMEWHERE 3:32 · IN THE MIDDLE. I IT'S 3:34 · DIFFICULT TO ASSESS OBESE 3:36 · TIME, BUT WE WOULD GET THE 3:37 · GOOD NEWS IS WE GET MUCH MORE 3:39 · BETTER DATA IN THE COMING 3:41 · MONTHS AND YOU KNOW, THE FUN 3:42 · OF DOING SCIENCE IS THAT YOU 3:45 · CAN ASK QUESTIONS AT FIRST AND 3:48 · THEN THAT ON SOME THEM WITH 3:50 · DATA AND THEN WE DON'T NEED TO 3:51 · HAVE AN OPINION, ESPECIALLY IN 3:53 · THE BLIND DATE LIKE THIS ONE. 3:57 · AND YOU KNOW, BETS ARE IS THE 3:59 · STUDIES THAT ARE CAME FROM IN 4:00 · THE STAT US BASIN. IT'S 4:01 · POSSIBLE THAT THE YOU KNOW, 4:04 · TARGETED THE INNER SOLAR 4:06 · SYSTEM FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL 4:08 · REASON FROM WHAT YOU'RE 4:10 · DESCRIBING. THIS SOUNDS LIKE 4:10 · ONE OF THE WORST POTENTIALLY 4:11 · HAVE EVER HEARD 4:15 · >> DO HAVE THE CAPABILITIES 4:16 · RIGHT NOW TO TRACK INTERCEPT 4:17 · AND EVEN RESPOND TO SOMETHING 4:18 · NON-HUMAN ENTERING OUR SOLAR 4:19 · SYSTEM AS SOON AS OCTOBER. 4:22 · >> WHETHER IT WOULD BE MOVING 4:24 · RELATIVE TO EARTH AT THE 4:25 · NEARLY 100 ON YOU KNOW WHAT 4:26 · THE SPECIFIC AND WHEN IT'S 4:29 · CLOSEST TO THE SUN AND IT 4:32 · SEEMED TO BECAUSE IT MOVES IN 4:32 · THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THE 4:33 · MOTION OF THERE IS NO WAY FOR 4:36 · RUSH FOR US TO SEND THE ROCKET 4:37 · THAT INTERSECT WITH IT FROM 4:41 · HOWEVER, I WROTE THE PAPER 4:44 · LAST WEEK THAT AND THE REASON 4:46 · ACTUALLY A SPACECRAFT THAT 4:47 · THESE ORBITING, JUDY THERE. 4:48 · IT'S CALLED JUNE ALL AND IT'S 4:50 · AT THE END OF ITS LIFE. THE 4:52 · PLAN WAS TO AND SEND IT 4:56 · STRAIGHT INTO BE THERE IN 4:58 · SEPTEMBER 2025 BECAUSE THAT 5:01 · THE MISSION IS AS ENDED, BUT 5:04 · THEN WHAT I REALIZED IS THAT 5:06 · IF INSTEAD OF GIVING IT THE 5:08 · BUSH SO THAT ENDS ITS LIFE 5:10 · INSIDE YOU GET THERE. YOU GIVE 5:11 · IT TO PUSH AWAY FROM JOE 5:13 · BIDEN. IF THE PUSH IS 5:15 · SUFFICIENT SUFFICIENT BEEN 5:16 · THEN IT ACTUALLY INTERCEPT THE 5:20 · RB. ALL FAME AND 3. I ATLAS 5:23 · THESE NEW OBJECTS IN MARCH 5:27 · 2026 WHEN IT WOULD COME VERY 5:27 · CLOSE TO DROPPING AND THEN ON 5:31 · TUESDAY THIS WEEKEND, JUST A 5:32 · FEW DAYS AGO I HAD A PHONE 5:34 · CALL OR FROM A CONGRESSWOMAN 5:36 · THAT I'M NOT NOT. WEST ME FOR 5:39 · UPDATE ABOUT 3. I ATLAS. AND I 5:43 · MENTIONED THIS TO HER AND SHE 5:44 · WROTE A LETTER TO NASA AND AND 5:49 · FIRST LAST WEEK IN JUST 2 DAYS 5:51 · AGO IN WHICH ENCOURAGES NASA 5:53 · LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY 5:55 · FUSING AND JUNE ALL AS A PRO. 5:58 · ALL 3. I ATLAS. 5:59 · >> I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT 6:01 · UPDATE AND I HOPE YOU KEEP US 6:02 · UPDATED ON THIS AS PROFESSOR 6:04 · AVI LOEB, THANK YOU SO MUCH 6:05 · FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. THANKS 6:07 · FOR HAVING. AND IF YOU WANT TO 6:08 · HEAR MORE DIRECTLY FROM 6:10 · PROFESSOR AVI LOEB. CHECK OUT 6:11 · THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER 6:13 · PODCAST. OUR CONVERSATION NOW 6:14 · HAS MORE THAN HALF A MILLION 6:16 · VIEWS. HE TALKS ABOUT HOW AI 6:18 · WILL CHANGE YOU. AP RESEARCH. 6:20 · THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF 6:21 · CONTACTING EXTRATERRESTRIAL 6:23 · LIFE AND WHAT KEEPS HIM UP AT 6:25 · NIGHT. YOU CAN FIND MY DCAST.
That's Entertainment | 3:32
The Jam | 86.3K subscribers | 2,173,622 views | July 31, 2018
This is the plot of Rendezvous with Rama.
Yes, and methinks this would be worth doing for a look see ahead of whatever comes next.
Elon, Elon, he’s our man; if he can’t do it, no one can!
Maybe they should think this through some more before intercepting it and bringing any it of back here.
And the Ramans do everything in threes.
(which he says could be some sort of alien tech)
Oh of course it is.
Nick Pope on the case too?
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos? Luis Elizondo?
More Phase IV blue beamming...ever since War of the Worlds.
On the other hand,
has anyone considered that
it might just want to talk
to some 🐋🐳🐋🐳 whales?
And if it can’t find them,
destroy the Earth?
I LOVE Italian food!
And so do you...
Harvard doing their part to distract people from Russia gate. Keeping useful idiots in line. That’s all this is. Narrative creation fed thru the TV.
The Tesla in space could drive up to the object and check it out. /sarc
/bingo. Related:
Sure, but they have to do it again in a half hour.
Ah, but Blue Origin just gave another crew a ride in their “reusable” suborbital thrill ride.
Yess. I saw those. All BS. Amazing how easily people eat it up. As if they were truly born yesterday.
Dang you beat to it! Rendezvous with Rama connection!
Yay Captain Kirk!!!!
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