So what do you think about this 3iAtlas comet behaving weirdly in our Solar System?

[bagpuss]

I would tend to agree. One question it seems no-one has asked about 3I/Atlas is, does it even exist? I mean I haven't seen it, have you? - all we are shown are animated gifs of a blob and told it is some weird comet or some giant alien SUV- no-one has questioned that bit.

I've said this to a few people I know and they've kinda laughed and said' why would they lie about it?'.... I'm like ' Have you learned nothing over the last 5 years???' anyway I have to chew it back as people look at you as if you are the odd one .

A picture from the International Gemini Observatory should hold some truth?

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Mean while in the a voice is heard saying " anyone got a lense cleaning cloth "

If there is life out there or we are alone in the universe, both are equally scary.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Mean while in the a voice is heard saying " anyone got a lense cleaning cloth "

If there is life out there or we are alone in the universe, both are equally scary.

What about infinite parallel universes?

That's reassuring, because if you can't find your keys in this world, there's another world where
they are exactly where you left them!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I recently read Waterspider by Phillip K Dick, great premise, scientists from the future travel back in time to scoop up science fiction writers in the belief that they were actually precogs, their writings were actually prophecies.

 

[LondonClassic]

The point i was trying to make:

if its that unlikely,
We probably imagined it

But this depends on an understanding of probabilities.

Didn't someone calculate that to fake the moon landing with 250,000 scientists and engineers would have cost more than just going there?

H&S and Risk Assessment might have been easier though.

We probably imagined what?

We had 90 odd years of radio telescopes and with them we've intermittently surveyed less than 1% of the observable universe - and the amount of 'observable' is expanding.

Fermi didn't say 'we are alone', he asked 'where is everybody?'. 'We are alone' is one hypothesis but there are other were the great filter and dark forest hypotheses.

I understand its easier to take the piss than discuss this - reinforcing my point that if 3iAtlas shows any sign of representing intelligence we simply won't be told about it - because we're incapable of dealing with that news.