Avi Loeb and Toni Scarmato just dropped a new paper on 3I/ATLAS, and the implications are wild. We just published a deep dive on this over at The Sentinel, but here is the TL;DR because people need to see this math.
According to the Hubble data, 99% of the light coming from this thing is exhaust. The actual hull is basically invisible. It has three jets spaced exactly 120 degrees apart, and they wobble on a precise, harmonically locked schedule.
The primary jet wobbles every 7.2 hours. The other two wobble at 2.9 and 4.3 hours.
2.9 + 4.3 = 7.2.
That is a coupled oscillatory system. Nature doesn't tune three independent cracks on a tumbling ice rock to a shared, exact frequency. Engineering does.
It gets weirder. The paper describes the jets acting essentially as a three-axis attitude control system. The exact same architecture we use on our own spacecraft to hold a fixed orientation while rotating. And it’s using that system to keep its rotation axis pointed directly at our Sun.
Loeb actually put the words "technological thrusters" in print as a valid hypothesis alongside natural outgassing. The establishment will likely ignore that half of the sentence, but the data is piling up.
You can read the full breakdown here.
Curious to hear what you guys think.
How long is the mainstream going to keep calling this just a "weird comet"?
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If so, it shouldn’t be hard for this object to park at Jupiter?
It is really wild. I hope the whole story behind this thing is no hoax or wish-thinking.
Edit: typo
I’m surprised that Dr. Loeb hasn’t adjusted his rating of 3iAtlas on the Loeb Scale from a 4 out of 10. How many more anomalies are needed to change it to a 5 or higher?
What’s the saying again? If it looks like a duck, etc etc? Well, this thing checks each box. People just refuse to believe it.
And how it’s described here aligns perfectly with the images in the Cassandra leak from last fall.
Loeb posting his trite as prepublish draft is yet another way to try and dodge the actual discourse that would roast him.
Let’s revisit this when it’s actually published and engaged with by experts. Not tourists with delusion of grandeur.
This bot stuff again…sigh
It’s just all guessing. They don’t have any direct camera data
Woah. Things keep getting weirder all over. Incoming McKenna
“I think it’s just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it’s going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is. People are gonna say what the hell is going on. It’s just too nuts.”
It’s an interesting time in which we live.
I think we’ve finally f’ed ourselves so hard big brother is coming in to set shit right. Curious why it’s heading towards the sun. Energy source for the object?
ELI5 anyone?
Blue beam
u/askgrok how far is this? Let’s use nano engineering to fabricate a tiny casimir cavities vaccum propulsion ship the harvests cosmic rays to fuel itself to this object.
How fast can we get and how long would it take to reach this object.
And how do we figure out ftl communication to allow us to read whatt the Tiny space ship sees. How can we figure out quantum entangled photon amoled devices that allow see and sight instantaneously
If that makes sense or is possible. K lmk if I’m a bumbass thanks
Avi Loeb is a crackpot unfortunately I don’t trust much of what he says and neither does the science community outside of his tight knit group.
>Nature doesn’t grow leaves and seeds in a mathematical pattern.
Whatever you say, buddy.
I’m not even going to pretend to understand that paper. But having 2 different AIs summarize the publication in layman’s terms and question the title of this post; and both came to the same conclusion. Clickbait.
“The paper does note the rotation axis appears aligned with the sunward direction to within ~20°, but the authors interpret this as a consequence of the geometry of outgassing forces, not as evidence of intentional attitude control. A 3-axis attitude control system implies active, deliberate maneuvering — the paper makes no such claim whatsoever.
What the paper actually says: this object is tumbling in a complex rotation state, and the jets happen to be geometrically arranged in a way that could partially cancel torques, helping maintain a relatively stable spin axis. That’s plausible natural physics for a comet-like body.
The “Harvard paper is wild” framing is clickbait extrapolation. It’s an interesting technical paper about a wobbling interstellar object, not a claim about alien spacecraft attitude control.“