Hi folks,
This article (and scientific paper) is, at first glance, straight out of "It was the aliens that did it" camp.
Avi Loeb, senior guy at Harvard has postulated that 3i/ATLAS may actually be some sort of alien spacecraft. (Yeah, I was quick to dismiss this statement as garbage, too.)
Having read the paper and the not-so-science-heavy SubStack article, it's an interesting thought experiment that prompted me to ponder "what if?".
Before you start thinking that I'm with the David Icke group of (IMHO loonies), I'm fully in the "this is a random rock that's been traveling for an insanely long period of time and we just happened to be in it's path" camp.
What do you think?
Paper:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/HCL25.pdf
Substack:
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-the-i...y-b59ccc17b2e3
Cheers,
V.