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“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:
This comet was outgassing suggesting it is of a softer makeup, there is a myriad of scientific articles that describe how comets can break up over time, this is just one example:
Hubble provides spectacular view of ongoing comet break-up
Even try a simple search on Google: can comets break up
AI Overview:
Internal Stresses:
As comets spin, jets of gas and dust can be ejected, causing them to spin faster and faster. This rapid rotation generates internal stress, leading to cracks and eventual fragmentation of the nucleus.
Thermal Stresses:
As a comet approaches the Sun, its ices sublimate (turn directly into gas), releasing gases and dust. This process can create cracks and fissures on the surface, leading to the comet's eventual breakage.
The Breakup Process
1. Initial Cracks:
Internal stresses or solar heating can create cracks and rifts in the irregularly shaped, porous cometary nucleus.
2. Outgassing and Fragmentation:
Volatiles released from the interior into these cracks contribute to increasing the stress and the rate of gas and dust emission.
3. Definitive Breakage:
The widened rifts can lead to the final splitting of the comet's nucleus into multiple fragments.
It sounds more like a comet that is running low on ices than an asteroid.
Why can’t they just concede that they don’t know everything about the solar system and comets yet? This whole spacecraft mystery stuff is dumb. They should be better than that with all the money we spend on them. They’re probably just sensationalizing this to keep the research money flowing to themselves.
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Nicely dismissed. Best to keep one’s mind as closed as possible, to insure nothing new seeps in and causes confusion. Knowledge is best wasted along with curiosity, eh?
No observed comet has ever exhibited these characteristic. All of SphereX’s observations have now been confined by the James Web Telescope.
Do not dismiss it so easily as even mainstream astronomers are saying in it too unusual to be any comet ever observed, not to mention all the coincidences.
NASA has a conflict of interest and therefore cannot be trusted.
They are no different than any other large institution “talking their book”.
Folks here creating a new religion of NASA worship are making a major blunder.
I3 Atlas has not changed directions - if it does it will do so when it passes behind the Sun. When it emerges [ if it has changed directions ], no one will see it, as it will be in the sun and ‘invisible’, until it passes through Earth, shattering it into random rocks.
So sit back and learn new things.
He’s just fine. Its the small-minded that need the intervention.
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
After it passes within 1 AU or less of 3 planets. Anything entering the Plane of the Ecliptic that does that has a random chance that is vanishingly tiny.
With a CO2 cloud that is 1/2 the diameter of the Sun, while traveling at 60kps, with a mass of 10-26km among other oddities makes the above random chance pass beyond vanishingly tiny into the realm of near negative numbers.
Bombshell: The science is settled; it’s an alien spacecraft
sent to incinerate the planet Earth.
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No, not incinerate the planet Earth. Its an indirect attack by an unknown species from some unknown star system, that does not want any competition for resources. The object its self is made of ultra-dense material and, after passing Mars and Venus, plunge into the Sun causing it to nova, incinerating the entire inner solar system.
There. Feel better, now?
Agreed, but this is FR where such things are ridiculed, dismissed out of hand, and made fun about.
When 3I passes the Sun, the Earth will be on the opposite side. The graphic is wrong.
1I/ʻOumuamua did not exhibit any of the characteristic you list, and after doing a slingshot orbit around the Sun, it changed course while speeding up. Its rotation did not alter & it did not emit any gasses in the process.
It sounds more like a comet that is running low on ices than an asteroid.
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If it was “running low” on ices [ H2O ], they would still be out-gassing, but there is none.
NASA has a conflict of interest and therefore cannot be trusted.
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Does that mean you are dismissing the SphereX, James Webb and telescopic observations?
What NASA conflict, specifically?
I am reminded of the scientist I read a couple of weeks ago. He said something along the lines that the Universe is a big place. We don’t know much about it. We will be ‘surprised’ at new stuff all the time. We should not be surprised at how often we are surprised.
This is one of those times where people seem ‘too surprised.’
NASA needs funding.
They need results to get people excited so they can get the funding.
Since we depend on them—and other people directly or indirectly on their payroll—to confirm anything they say...
I take nothing they say at face value.
I cannot prove they are lying about anything.
I just don’t trust them.
I cannot prove they are lying about anything.
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If you were to dedicate some time and go through their Apollo image catalogue and the old & newly released Apollo transcripts - you’d have plenty of proof. Same with their Mars efforts.
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