US Edition‘We Would Have Been Thrilled’: Scientists Confirm 3I/Atlas Is Not an Alien Spaceship
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The astrophysicist suggests a technological base in the Oort cloud and denounces that our “blindness” beyond 20 AU makes it irrelevant to wonder where the aliens are if we don’t look where they might be.
‘We Would Have Been Thrilled’: Scientists Confirm 3I/Atlas Is Not an Alien Spaceship
Comet | ikonacolor via iStockPhotoIn July 2025, scientists noticed something rare. An interstellar object tore through our solar system at 137,000 mph. Rumors followed. Some scientists theorized it could be a probe sent by an alien civilization to study our neighborhood. Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard cited three reasons 3I/ATLAS might be an alien spacecraft. First, its trajectory is highly unusual. The object passed through space relatively clos…
The Unspoken Precedent Problem Facing The 3I/ATLAS Debate
Three Key Findings Accepting even one non-natural object in the Solar System would force immediate changes in policy, funding priorities, and planetary-defense doctrine—consequences few institutions are prepared to confront. Scientific resistance to extraordinary conclusions may be driven less by lack of evidence and more by the cascade of obligations such conclusions would trigger. The debate An investigative analysis explores whether institutio
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