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

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

  • Happy! They were coming here to to dominate us.

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Sad! Their superior intellect was the only thing that could have saved us from the AI apocalypse.

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Other. On the one hand, I'm in the anal probe business...

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • What's 3I/Atlas?

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • Total voters
    7

Zed Clampet

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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.
 
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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.
 
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The thing about aliens. If they have the tech to travel amounst the stars by non conventional means, aka faster than the propeltion we use. There is zero doubt that they would be able to conceal themselves and only be seen when they wanted. Which is very briefly and just enough to make everything a wtf was that.

The ability to "cloak" pales in sci tech than the idea of "warp", "folding", "sub space" "wormholes", "tunneling" ect

Personally i think we are being visited, and are being "watchd" there is just too many credible sitings that completely defy all conventional movements, that aven an unmaned vehicle could do from even a stop/start/excelleration stand point.

Any of you ever watch josh gates and expedition unknown? There is an epp on Easter island that they were doing a show about aleins and had a tripod set up and they have a video that has acompletely unexplained AVP. It even blew thier minds as they were talking about how and why there is so little credible video. I forget the eppisode but i think its a 3 part aliens thing. But stiff like that does really make you wonder.
 
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They might land a probe on it, which would be cool.


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.


I dunno about that, with the amount of freaking out they did with covid leaves me to think most just talk a good game. They might have food, but mentally most arent any better of than the general pop.

Personally i thought covid was really going to help bring about change and more empathy, especially the whole value for work done. but boy i couldnt have been more wrong about that.

So, no i think the world would collectively loose thier minds
 
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Frindis

Dominar of The Hynerian Empire
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I'm 100% sure of aliens and that we live in some type of learning matrix.

An example of this is when I was at the library (pardon the unintentional pun), sitting in a chair and looking at the nearest bookshelf. I noticed a book with the author having the same last name that I have and that is astronomically rare since I have a very rare last name. Stuff like that happens all the time with me, no way in hell it is just a coincidence, even if psychologists try to throw out fancy names for it.
 

Frindis

Dominar of The Hynerian Empire
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Could only hope. One day an alien craft will come by this area, but this solar system may be long gone by then.
Reminds me of a video I watched of a KIA WW2 soldier being dug up by "archaeologists". From damage to legs, all seems he did not have a good parting. Then the "archaeologists" found some of his personal belongings and talked about those. It's crazy to think that a person serving in some obscure war will be feed for social media, but such is life.
 
I'm sure there's alien life out there somewhere. Intelligence? I'm not entirely certain of.

There's an infinitesimal chance that if there were, it's close to us. Even smaller that it's spotted us out here in the arm of an unremarkable galaxy and yet smaller still that it could even make it to us for a little visit.

But I also haven't been following space news recently, so there's that.
 
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Also, do you think gamers would be more prepared for an alien invasion than the general populace? Why?
The behaviour of aliens in games or films might not be their true character. These games are built based on the developer's imagination and not from experience with aliens. So I don't think gamers will be more prepared than others.
 

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