Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026?
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets thought this was an Avi Loeb thing for a second
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets Avi Loeb at it again, I take it?
Although, given... gestures vaguely at everything ...well, let's just say that an alien invasion sounds like it might solve like 99% of our problems.
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@sundogplanets thought this was an Avi Loeb thing for a second
@SnoopJ It was. Past tense. Surprise! Not aliens.
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@sundogplanets thought this was an Avi Loeb thing for a second
@SnoopJ @sundogplanets I think Avi Loeb might be an alien.
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@sundogplanets thought this was an Avi Loeb thing for a second
@SnoopJ @sundogplanets avi could still turn around and attack the earth
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@sundogplanets Avi Loeb at it again, I take it?
Although, given... gestures vaguely at everything ...well, let's just say that an alien invasion sounds like it might solve like 99% of our problems.
@Legit_Spaghetti I mean, the worst part of an alien attack would not be the alien attack, but the fact that Avi Loeb was right. (He was not.)
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@SnoopJ It was. Past tense. Surprise! Not aliens.
@sundogplanets oh, lmao, I guess I had missed the "turn around and attack" thing (or forgot about it because the man's "ideas" are infohazards)
idk he should go back to violating international maritime laws with cryptocurrency or something, the "pointing at every celestial object and shouting aliens" shtick is old hat at this point
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@SnoopJ It was. Past tense. Surprise! Not aliens.
Generally speaking, if Avi Loeb makes a statement on it or someone tries to link it to Bob Lazar it is 100% not aliens.
They could land a flying saucer in Central Park and eight foot tall tentacled creatures could float out on hoverboards and if Avi Loeb told me they were aliens I’d have to assume they were in fact just from New Jersey...
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Generally speaking, if Avi Loeb makes a statement on it or someone tries to link it to Bob Lazar it is 100% not aliens.
They could land a flying saucer in Central Park and eight foot tall tentacled creatures could float out on hoverboards and if Avi Loeb told me they were aliens I’d have to assume they were in fact just from New Jersey...
@rk @sundogplanets Harvard astronomer (pejorative)
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@rk @sundogplanets Harvard astronomer (pejorative)
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Generally speaking, if Avi Loeb makes a statement on it or someone tries to link it to Bob Lazar it is 100% not aliens.
They could land a flying saucer in Central Park and eight foot tall tentacled creatures could float out on hoverboards and if Avi Loeb told me they were aliens I’d have to assume they were in fact just from New Jersey...
@rk @sundogplanets @SnoopJ I mean that’s still a more realistic option.
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets wait, what?
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
You and I continue to share some of the contents of the spam folders.
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
They took one look at us and figured we were doing well enough attacking ourselves, so they didn't need to bother.
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
Yeah, I had high hopes for this.
Especially the "attacks earth" part would have changed many things to the better... -
Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets Wait what? Dang I miss all the fun things!!
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets I suppose it’s one way to note the centenary of Andre Maurois’ The War against the Moon …
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
@sundogplanets I had to make a filter on r/space to automatically mark any mention of it for moderation. So many conspiracists!
I think even now there’s still a big contingent that believe it maneuvered or did something else strange. People were weirdly convinced by arguments of the specialness of the trajectory, but every trajectory is unique. I think even if it hadn’t gotten close to any planet they would have said “look how it was planned to be sure to not hit any planets…”
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@sundogplanets I had to make a filter on r/space to automatically mark any mention of it for moderation. So many conspiracists!
I think even now there’s still a big contingent that believe it maneuvered or did something else strange. People were weirdly convinced by arguments of the specialness of the trajectory, but every trajectory is unique. I think even if it hadn’t gotten close to any planet they would have said “look how it was planned to be sure to not hit any planets…”
@wikkit One of the most wacko of the emails I got was just to that effect!
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Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)
I think I have shared this before, but it's so delightfully bizarre that I have to share it again.
Behold, the most ?!?!? email I've ever received:
