(09-04-2025, 07:55 PM)Luscious Atanari Wrote: [ -> ]Something just feels weird.
This entire year has been remarkably strange, weather wise.
And when summer finally came, the sun was so damn intense I could hardly stand to be out in it.
In previous years I'd been sunbathing, but this year something was just different.
None of it has been normal.
The past few summers before this, I was able to lay out for 30 minutes or so no problem...
This year, I could barely make it to 20 minutes and it wasn't enjoyable.
Maybe I changed. But the weather stuff definitely wasn't me. Lol.
(09-04-2025, 09:07 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: [ -> ]The past few summers before this, I was able to lay out for 30 minutes or so no problem...
This year, I could barely make it to 20 minutes and it wasn't enjoyable.
Maybe I changed. But the weather stuff definitely wasn't me. Lol.
it’s hard for me to imagine you just sitting still in the sun with such iconic Visions of you writhing luxuriously in New Mexico’s dunes of sandy white gypsum and Utah’s Salty Lake bed.
The sun does seem more intense of late. I certainly feel more aware of it as a celestial body rather than just taking it for granted.
I think I may have been experiencing a touch of 3I Atlas-generated paranoia.
It’s weird how few people know about 3I Atlas. Every single human I mention it to in person says they have not heard of it. Also strange that it’s been designated as a comet by NASA. It might be the best they could come up with by way of comparison; a placeholder until they figure out what it is.
(09-05-2025, 08:16 AM)Luscious Atanari Wrote: [ -> ]I certainly feel more aware of it as a celestial body rather than just taking it for granted.
Same here.
Also same with my perception of the moon for about the past year...
I make light of it (pun intended?) but I really am taken aback that we nonchalantly accept that there is a massive, planet sized object shockingly close to us and we just act like it's normal.
(09-05-2025, 12:47 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: [ -> ]I make light of it (pun intended?)
This lady knows something....
11:37 they start discussing 3I/Atlas.
Oh, fuck. I can’t wait to get home and watch this.
(09-08-2025, 11:56 AM)Mister Obvious Wrote: [ -> ]11:37 they start discussing 3I/Atlas.
I watched it. He doesn't offer any new information, but it's nice having a Harvard Scientist confirm the anomalous stuff, like all that nickel without any iron, the weird issues with the tail, that it's not behaving at all like a comet, all the Co2 in the coma, how bright it is, how it's entering directly on the ecliptic curve of the solar system, which is exactly what would happen if navigating, otherwise the chance of it happening is (according to Avi) 0.2% (borderline impossible, given there have only been 3 interstellar objects recorded entering our solar system in history -- there would need to be at least 500 to get that one freakish accident).
Previous Harvard scientists who have made an impact on mainstream box-thinking:
Richard Alpert (went on to become Ram Das and wrote "Be Here Now")
Terrance McKenna (created the crazy-accurate Novelty Theory, and put DMT on the map)
https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/3iatlas-...sciousness
The whole thing is damn interesting considering his conclusions/explanation about Oumuamua, but 12:21 is where he really gets into the subject.
He seems convinced that 3I/Atlas will continue to be discussed and make its way into normie consciousness.
I'm skeptical, but either way, his explanation really puts Avi to shame.
Seems like Avi, Clif and anyone else talking about Atlas this way is taking a pretty high risk.
I mean, it's gonna be a fast turnaround on getting proven wrong as fuck.
Just goes to show that it doesn't really matter what you do or say, being "cancelled" or disproved or just straight up wrong doesn't hurt the reputation, at least not permanently.
Everybody really should go around talking a lot more shit, because there's nothing to lose and it makes life more entertaining.
Not to wax too closely to the Heaven’s Gate cult, but, just a thought: maybe we are meant to follow 3I Atlas. It has come to Shepherd us, or some of us.
If there’s some way for us to access it, enter it, live within it, maybe it will take us somewhere.
I mean, all the carbon dioxide and cyanide in the coma aren’t exactly a welcoming sign, but it’s an interesting idea.
Quote:This polarimetric behavior is significantly different from all known comets, either interstellar or those bound to the Solar System, not fitting into either the high or low-polarization comet categories. The combination of low inversion angle and extreme negative polarization is unprecedented among comets and asteroids, marking 3I/ATLAS the first object known with such polarimetric behavior and representing a previously unobserved population.
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/extreme-nega...d01d13d5c7
I think this is going to be a learning experience for us as far as interstellar objects go, but probably won't be much else.
Does seem kind of strange that we're seeing so many of these objects in such a small span of time...
Just the same as the asteroid belt, there are debris fields in interstellar space that we travel through, and they're probably less common, which is why we haven't seen any action like this before.