3i/Atlas Comet could be “foreign technology”, claims Harvard Professor

A strange comet that was recently discovered that fast through our solar system can actually be the evil foreigners – at least, if you believe in the argument in a controversial new research document.

The essay were submitted earlier this month and the cowrite of Harvard University’s Avi Loeb.

It poses the hypothesis, mostly as an “educational exercise” (or thought experiment), it Comet 3i/Atlas may be “foreign technology” and “possibly hostile.”

Essentially, according to this argument, 3i/Atlas could have been sent by a hidden and difficult foreign strength somewhere in the galaxy, perhaps to spy on humans.

As evidence quotes the paper writers comet’s path and high speed, which would provide “different benefits to an extraterrestrial intelligence,” According to Live Science. There is no longer enough time to try to catch 3i/Atlas.

Loeb, a writer and physicist who is well -known for his interest in examining potential signs of foreign life, told the TV station wbz That “we should put all the possibilities on the table that it is a stone, a comet or something else until we get the evidence, the information that will tell you what they are.”

“We should not assume anything, and we should assess the risk given the information we have,” he said.

Other experts have dismissed it.

“All evidence indicates that this is a common comet that was thrown out of another solar system, just as countless billions of comets have been thrown out of our own solar system,” the University of Regina’s Samantha Lawler said Live Science.

Another astronomer, Michigan State University’s Darryl Seligman, agreed and told the outlet: “There have been many telescopic observations of 3i/Atlas showing that there are classic signatures of cometary activity.”

In accordance with to NASA3I/Atlas was not discovered only on July 1, by a telescope in Chile, according to NASA, although other observations have since been collected from June.

It is the “third known object outside our solar system to be discovered”, according to the Space Agency, after Oumuamua 2017 and 2i/Borisov 2019.

3i/Atlas has been measured at 137,000 miles per hour and will be faster. (It is unclear how big it is.) Still, the comet – made of dust and ice – “poses no threat to the earth and will remain far away,” NASA has explained.

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It “was formed in another star system and was somehow thrown into interstellar space, which is the space between the stars,” according to NASA. “For millions or even billions of years, it has operated until it recently arrived at our solar system. It has approached from the general direction towards Constellation Skytten, which is where the central region of our galaxy, Milky Way, is located.”

3i/Atlas reaches its nearest point to the sun near the end of October but is still about 130 million miles away.

From now on, Nasa said: “The size of the interstellar comet and physical properties is investigated by astronomers around the world.”