Very Large Telescope just gave another big destructive hit to standard science...3I/ATLAS is bleeding nickel at levels no comet should, defying physics, and dwarfing anything we’ve seen before, including Oumuamua and Borisov.>https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1973358078935581126
How about posting the paper instead of a xitter link?
>>16803014https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26053https://avi-loeb.medium.com/new-data-on-the-extreme-nickel-production-of-3i-atlas-c889b20342c1
>>16803015>an enormous bar of nickelThe Dark Forest tossed a fucking rod at us.They're going to destroy Mars as a lesson to us and hopefully false flag the local tigers into thinking we self-heroed our civilization.We need to stfu.
>>16803015>at levels no comet should, defying physicsI'm struggling to find where where the paper concludes this?
>>16803022It doesn't and like usual it destroyed OP
>>16803022Pretty sure they know it's a rockball and not a snowball. Makes sense it would eject nickel.Not like they make planets out of that stuff or anything.
>>16803029Nope other work shows the coma is dominated by CO2, with H2O and water ice.https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18209Also, as you can see from the measurements in that paper, all comets eject some amount of nickel.
>>16803078Oh dear, a "surprising" amount of nickel. That could mean anything. Thank you scientists for nailing this one down too!
>>16803018good Venus is better anyway
The Nickelodeon comet boutta finna rugrat
>>16803009Let's assume it's artificial. Loeb stated that its perihelion (nearest point to the Sun) is exactly opposite to the Earth, and that that is the most efficient point to make a course adjustment. The possibility discussed is that if it were to make such an adjustment it would be in order to circularize its orbit around the Sun. But it seems to me that such an adjustment could achieve another result: to hit the Earth and wipe us out. A civilization some light years away might know we're here from all the radio noise, and have worked out what planets exist in the solar system but not know which planet is producing all the radio signals. 3I/Atlas has to get close enough to determine which planet to hit. Making the appropriate orbital adjustment behind the Sun means that when it emerges into view it will be too late for us to do anything when we see that it coming straight at us.
>Astronomers are discovering variance
>>16803583>bank shotwe can vaporize it with nooks
>>16803802>>>16803583 (You)>>bank shot>we can vaporize it with nooksI recall a paper that showed that all you get by nuking an asteroid is a cloud of small asteroids that coelesce back into a more or less solid ball. Anyway, even if it doesn't coelesce before hitting Earth, you get hit by a shotgun blast instead of a single bullet.
>>16804264However, further thought makes me aware that if the aliens had an idea of what planets there are and where their orbits around the Sun, and assuming they are seeing the solar system edge on, they would know which planet is producing radio noise because the noise would stop when that planet was behind the Sun from their point of view. If they are not looking at the solar system edge on, and the planets are always visible, then they'd need to measure slight doppler effects on one or two radio signals of the relative motion of the planets.
>>16803009sample of one. let's extrapolate
>>16803009>It’s bleeding nickel at levels no comet should, defying physics, Clickbait like this is why science is so Reddit and cringe now. Literally kill yourself. I'm not clicking one of those links ever the fuck again.
>>16803015>avi-loebwhy are we still posting this hack?
Stupid question but what does the I mean in FeI and NiI? Are they just Fe+ and Ni+? I take it they are not iodides lol
>>16804355FeI is just neutral Fe actually. I is neutral, II is singly ionised.
>>16803583whats the chance of this "bullet" arrives when we are just capable to observe it? this will be new norm soon, weird objects coming and going
>>16803018Mars already got giga-nuked twice millions of years ago. It is coming to make sure it is still a dead rock.
Of course there’s shit out there that our own understanding of physics can barely follow. We update physics. Why does this piss scientists off again? Because it’s like admitting magic exists?
>>16803583There are far more efficient ways to exterminate potential threats, like deploying biological weapons able to make a civilization destroy itself. Methods that releases or involve high amounts of energy attract too much unwanted attention.
>>16804432Giving power to the unknown is le bad.
There’s unexplainable shit on our planet already and we’re omg’ing at space? I’m in love.
>>16804264shotgun blast is fine-ish, most stuff would burn up in the atmosphere; the impactors would cause much more damage in terms of blast and thermal effects but you don't run a risk of megatsunamis, mantle cracking or anything wild like thatfour years of winter and maybe a few millioin dead from prompt effects. not great, not terrible
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photos soon.
>>16804436NTA, but I would think sending an expedition to an alien civilization and launching a project to understand their much different biology in order to develop a disease which they might be able to counter would be a lot harder than sending a huge rock to home in on radio signals. And what unwanted attention? From the target civilization? Don't give them time to respond. From other civilizations? If they're close enough to detect a chunk of rock hitting a planet in another solar system, they're already in your crosshairs as well.
You fail to account for how big and empty the space is.
>>16804436>be space boomers>reeeeee at noisy zoomer planet making radio noise>travel 1000s of light years to kidnap a few of them, study how they work and develop a virus to kill them>or do some math and re-direct a giant rock at themyou're brians been melted by jewish entertainment, hurling a space rock wins by a mile
>>16803583>and that that is the most efficient point to make a course adjustmentAnyone else finds it funny that at this exact moment pic related happens?
>>16803583This is ridiculous speculation. It's a space rock that will be flying out of our solar system and we'll never see it again.
>>16805487Most likely.
>>16804436>something more efficient than throw a rock at the problem
I got believe our best scientific models were wrong about the makeup of the 3rd interstellar comet ever spotted. Science BTFO!
>>16805117What am I supposed to see in your pic? Could you highlight it more clearly?
>>16803583>will be too late for us to do anything when we see that it coming straight at us.women drivers, amirite? who knows what these illegal aliens are up to
Preliminary photos from Mars.
>>16803583Makes more sense, thank you
>>16804425>We think the ayys are going to fuck up Earth>They show up and don't give a shit about us>But they really fucking have it out for mars for some reason
>>16804355I thought they were oxidation states, not formulas of iodides.
>>16805555Throw tiny rock loaded with space bugs at problem.
>loebslop
>>16807600Not an argument.
>>16804264they obviously nuked it wrong, you detonate below surface at such depth that you vaporize material above explosive and this material weighting hundreds of tones shoots into one direction at above escape velocity, while rest of asteroid goes other way.
