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

I still can’t shake ‘alien remnants’ ideas on Oumuamua (such a wierd shape/tumble and we moved into its space, and a chance encounter like that means statistically there should be lots of them ….) Comets though? We’re just getting better at spotting them.
 
I think we’ve only ever confirmed the existence of ‘interstellar’ objects three times and all three are in the past 8 years.

Are we getting better at spotting them or are the probes just starting to reach us? 👽
 
Science gets scared when it finds things that it doesn't know. Shakes the world view, which can be frightening. If we've only seen 2 previous interstellar objects, how can we be certain that this one is anomalous? The sample size is too small to make any conclusions.
 
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