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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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:
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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:
@sundogplanets legit can't tell what's satire any more
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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:
@sundogplanets ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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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:
@sundogplanets Better idea: launch Tr**p into the sun. Everybody wins!
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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:
@sundogplanets That’s certainly… special
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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:
@sundogplanets Uh. Okay. What? That is THE WEIRDEST thing I've seen in a long time, so that's saying something.
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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:
This deserves to be printed and framed.
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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:
@Prof. Sam Lawler Hilarious. A part of me is wondering, though, if this might just be joke? Hard to say. -
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:
One thing that was fun about being in New Zealand and working with the University of Canterbury interstellar objects group for a few weeks was hearing all the stories about weird emails/calls/interactions with Avi Loeb-adjacent conspiracy theory/alien people. Interstellar objects seem to particularly attract that kind of attention (I'm sure Loeb hasn't helped)
But even with all those stories about the weird world of interstellar object conspiracy theorists, this email was the winner
