Question Are you happy/sad/other that NASA declared 3I/Atlas to be a comet?

[Zed Clampet]

Also, do you think gamers would be more prepared for an alien invasion than the general populace? Why?

Several well-known scientists were pushing the idea that this could actually be an alien ship. For one thing, it is headed straight for earth orbit. Then there is that it doesn't move like other comets; for instance, it's retrograde.

I've posted multiple times here and elsewhere that I doubted we would ever get visited due to the shear size of the galaxy. There could be 100 advanced lifeforms wandering around, and the odds are far better that we'd never find each other (with today's tech). Yet I like to be a positive person and have hope, so I was following this (not very carefully) and hoping for the best (that it really was an alien ship). And then NASA just comes along and destroys all hope. Couldn't they have waited until it was just a few days away?

Still, NASA hopes to study this comet to understand it better, so we should get some good photos and such when it passes by or slams into my house or whatever.

 

[Zed Clampet]

My extensive history in Balatro would have allowed me to win the planet back in a card game.

 

[Zloth]

I heard bits about something coming in. I guess this was it? (Goes out and checks the Net)

Oh, yeah, from outside the system. A pity Earth doesn't pass through the tail; it'd be great to get some bits for study.

 

[Colif]

One guy has said the last 3 interstellar objects were alien ships. People may stop listening to him soon

indifferent really.

its the 3rd ever seen... doesn't mean its the 3rd ever, just we can see better now.

 

[Pifanjr]

They might land a probe on it, which would be cool.

Also, do you think gamers would be more prepared for an alien invasion than the general populace? Why?

Gamers in general? No. Maybe that science-fiction enthusiasts would be slightly better prepared mentally for an alien invasion, but doomsday preppers are probably the best prepared to something that sends all of human civilization into disarray.