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Manhattan-sized interstellar object appears to emit its own light: Harvard scientist (More of Avi Loeb's provocative speculation to generate interest?)
NY Post ^ | Shane Galvin

Posted on 08/20/2025 3:42:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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appears to be emitting its own light

Interstellar Motel 6?

41 posted on 08/20/2025 9:09:44 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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What is a berserker a popular science fiction name for?
Berserker (novel series) - Wikipedia
The Berserkers are intelligent machines, created by an organic race in the past, as a doomsday weapon, a group of robots with one goal: to destroy all organic life. They turned on their own creators, wiping them out.


42 posted on 08/20/2025 10:20:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Superman joined ICE: - - Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat)
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The first thing exiting a Supernova is a burst of X-rays that travel at near the speed of light.

A burst of X-rays would from a Supernova that was close enough to send us a rock emitting its own light a would completely sterilize the Earth at least few weeks before the rock got here.

We would be dead long before we had the chance to see that rock in our telescopes.


43 posted on 08/20/2025 2:13:18 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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This analysis by Loeb makes no sense to me. If the ‘light’ were due to radioactivity, any inhabitants would have to be shielded, so why would the radioactivity be on the outside, and the inhabitants shielded inside it?

If the interior were to be lit and the ‘spacecraft’ had windows, the light would be far too dim to be visible at this distance. There’s no logical explanation for exterior lighting. There are presently no human built satellites or spaceships with exterior lighting. The reason for that is obvious - it would have no purpose.


44 posted on 08/20/2025 3:14:30 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those [Leftists] struggling with inferiority complexes)
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Good points—mind expanding.

But why start with ‘radioactivity’ or, even worse, lights (as Avi did)? That’s still anthropomorphic. The ‘glow’ we register as light may be something we can’t yet imagine. Our sensors reduce it to ‘light,’ but what if they’re too primitive to capture the reality—something beyond our comprehension?

Like a grandmother dismissing Steely Dan as noise, we may be missing the real signal.

Or not.;-)


45 posted on 08/20/2025 4:28:27 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Breaking News

3I Atlas still shows no sign of being a comet. NASA’s SphereX spectroscopy infrared observatory, observed on 08/12 that it is not out-gassing any water or CO, only CO2 - a never before seen behavior.

The object is also 40km or 28 miles in diameter! 28 Miles!!! And we are only just beginning to learn more about the object.


28 mile diameter?! 3I Atlas MUCH bigger and stranger than we thought, according to NASA study!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv7XBm5XbtY


46 posted on 08/24/2025 4:20:43 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Interesting update. Thx much, PIF!


47 posted on 08/24/2025 4:32:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Additional info

its 46km in dia.

there is a very thin layer that seems to be emitting the observed CO2 gas. What lies below that layer is unknown at present.

NASA’s James Webb observed 3I Atlas 16 days ago, but they have released nothing on the observation.

So far, NASA has also shown no willingness to turn the Mars Orbiter toward the object as it passes Mars, or to plan an approach using the mission-completed Juno Probe to fly by it, as it passes Jupiter.

That and the lack of Webb data is confounding - does NASA know something?

Too many coincidences here, too much seemingly mysterious shenanigans art NASA.


48 posted on 08/24/2025 4:48:46 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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