Still sifting through the quickly growing lore surrounding 3I/Atlas. They're calling it third eye Atlas. Some say it's an Arcturian vessel. ๐
I will piece together the most plausible (imo) parts of the story.
Some time ago (within the last 5 years?) Voyager suddenly switched on. Its job when NASA sent it out in the 70s was to photograph the outer planets in our system and send the photos back to us. But NASA had lost communication, likely due to extreme radiation. Voyager's circuits got fried, I guess. Apparently, our system is not irradiated like the space beyond. But out past a certain barrier, everything gets fried. I wonder if the next star system and the next one are also protected within, with the radiation just outside the system, or if we're it? Is most of the universe at post nuclear levels of skin peeling radiation, in addition to being freezing cold and airless, so not even space craft can survive until the tech gets built up to withstand it? Yeah yeah. I'm not an earth and space scientist. ๐
So the reports stated that the craft that we thought was lost was suddenly back on, and slightly re oriented, with a "strange shadow" behind it, mimicking its every move and its every ping and beep.
And then back in May of this year, 3I Atlas suddenly showed up in our system, like a comet that does not behave like a comet. First, the thing is massive. Like the size of a billion tractor trailers. 35 billion tonnes and somewhere between 30km and 60km wide, about 8 times as long, and vaguely cigar shaped. Second, the odds that its chemical composition is naturally occurring are almost non existent. And third, it got close enough to our sun to disintegrate. Any naturally occurring comet or asteroid would have melted, crumbled, and turned to space dust after that blast of heat. But 3I/Atlas more or less stayed on course.
Reports (these ones are a bit less plausible, but not totally absurd) state that this UAP reacts strangely to light, as if it is shiny and/or lit from within. They say that the body appears to be made of nickel without iron, and that it is releasing huge amounts of CO2 as it moves through our system at 60km/second. They also say that its 'tail' is less like a tail, and more like thrusters. Not sure how they decided on its chemical composition from 50million km away, but maybe somebody could explain it to me.
It reached Mars on October 3, 8 days ago. Billions of dollars worth of state of the art equipment were only able to show us pics of fuzzy blobs of light. ๐คท NASA blames the Repugnicans' shutdown for the lack of info.
Maybe everybody with enough money to think they're important enough to survive an alien invasion is already working out their bunker space in Colorado. Or maybe the whole story is bs and 3I/Atlas is just an ordinary comet that has been fibbed about by every grifter on youtube.