3I/Atlas approaches Mars, we should have high resolution images, it’s still strange as ***

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NASA, which as one would expect, has been studying Comet 3I/Atlas and has come to their own conclusions. Not surprisingly, they don’t match up with Professor Loeb’s ideas.

“It looks like a comet. It does comet things. It very, very strongly resembles, in just about every way, the comets that we know,” said Tom Statler, NASA lead scientist for solar system small bodies.

“It has some interesting properties that are a little bit different from our solar system comets, but it behaves like a comet. And so the evidence is overwhelmingly pointing to this object being a natural body. It’s a comet.”

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Astrophysicist Avi Loeb is on a mission to prove aliens exist. His peers say he's chasing sensationalism. He reflects on his status as an academic pariah and whether controversial ideas can coexist.

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Continuing the long and storied traditions of physicists without shame in exactly this fashion, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb dubiously claimed that:

an interstellar meteor struck Earth in 2014,

that meteor was possibly made of alien technology,

it landed in a specific place in the ocean,

and that his expedition recovered those fragments and determined that they are of alien origin from beyond our Solar System.

Unfortunately for Avi Loeb, actual scientists who understand how this type of science is done are on the case, and the result is clear. Loeb’s claims were baseless, and his position, on the basis of the scientific merits, is nothing but embarrassing.

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