it is a rock though

>>524393337
Total insignificant, irrelevant shit, even if that rock was actually spaceship aliens dont deserve any of our attetion, they just passed by
At this point all the the hype by possible aliens seem like a psy op to make the cattle pay for the newest spielberg movie

>>524393486
How does it feeeel
To be in your oooown
Like Rolling stoone

>>524393337
>be me >amateur astrophotographer (spent $3k on a rig to take blurry photos of dots) >hype train for Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) hits peak >everyone on /sci/ saying it’s gonna be the "Comet of the Century" >normies think it's gonna look like a second moon or some shit

>wake up at 4:30 AM to catch the perihelion peak >drive 2 hours into the desert to avoid light polution >it’s 15 degrees out and my toes are literaly numb >set up the tripod, calibrate the tracker, pray to the optics gods >look through the viewfinder

>MFW it’s just a faint, green smudge >looks like a sneeze on a dark windowpane >take a 30 second exposure to see the "majestic tail" >the tail is just a slightly longer smudge >my camera sensor has more hot pixels than there are stars in the actual photo

>check the news later >"ATLAS 3i MIGHT BE DISINTEGRATING" >it's literaly just a giant dirty snowball falling apart because it got too close to the sun >it's falling apart and it still has more motivation than me >spent my gas money to look at space ice melting in real time

>go home and post the "processed" photo on Reddit >crank the saturation to 100% and use AI denoise until it looks like a Fortnite skybox >"Stunning view of ATLAS tonight, nature is healing" >10k upvotes from people who haven't looked at the sky since 2012

>tldr: space is a scam invented by Big Telescope to sell more glass
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>>524393337
>Don't worry about 3i ATL
i dont and i wont
fuck off