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2025-10-18 Science & Technology

Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor [comet] makes mysterious maneuver toward the sun

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-18 00:18|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1788 views ] Top

1 Just thinking and maybe a bit of wishful hope.

Could this be the cloud that Jesus’ coming to earth with His saints at the end of the Tribulation?

This might explain the comet strange behavior!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-10-18 02:29|| 2025-10-18 02:29|| Front Page Top

2 I would love to see how he came up with that probability, because it sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Loeb became, kinda, strange after he was bitten by a Karasu-tengu.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-10-18 04:26|| 2025-10-18 04:26|| Front Page Top

3 Because, no one can absolutely prove the other's comment right or wrong.

It's the near prefect "He Said/He Said" Click-Bait News bite Topic.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-10-18 06:21|| 2025-10-18 06:21|| Front Page Top

4 In order to be shocked, amazed, and or 'baffled you have to begin by imagining you already know everything about the topic at hand.

Posted by Cesare 2025-10-18 08:23|| 2025-10-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

5 Rama, call home?

Posted by Mercutio 2025-10-18 09:28|| 2025-10-18 09:28|| Front Page Top

6 The professor has speculated that 3I/ATLAS could be of extraterrestrial origin, the moment it was identified in July.

Thanks, professor. Daily Mail experts everyone, pay $5 to see a Daily Mail expert.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-18 10:08|| 2025-10-18 10:08|| Front Page Top

7 Sunlight makes one side "hot" and starts to boil frozen gases inside.

Posted by James the lesser 2025-10-18 10:09|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2025-10-18 10:09|| Front Page Top

8 Do be alarmed. Just some aliens working on their tan.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-10-18 11:43|| 2025-10-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

9 a faint jet extending roughly 3.7 miles from the object's nucleus, pointing toward the sun.

A classic flip & burn braking maneuver, used when you want to hang around for a while vs sling-shotting around the Sun to get a gravitational boost to send you off towards your next destination.

Posted by SteveS 2025-10-18 12:04|| 2025-10-18 12:04|| Front Page Top

10 We finally have a sensor net in place to record most of our planet and environs and it is astonishing what's been there for ages.
There was a Navy report of an undersea object as big as a football field moving over 200mph, something that should be impossible.
This jet could be a braking maneuver.

Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-10-18 12:10|| 2025-10-18 12:10|| Front Page Top

11 Um, wasn't the science settled a long time ago?

Posted by alanc 2025-10-18 16:57|| 2025-10-18 16:57|| Front Page Top

12 swksvolFF check out his bio. Harvard professor Avi Loeb is not a Daily Mail "expert". He is the real deal, someone to be respected.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-10-18 20:35|| 2025-10-18 20:35|| Front Page Top

13 fwiw, 3I/Atlas had its closest approach to Mars on 3 October, at about 18 million miles.

closest approach to earth will be 19 Dec at about 160 million miles.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-10-18 21:59|| 2025-10-18 21:59|| Front Page Top

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