Comet 3I-Atlas: The Last Train Out?

By james@2046AD.org August 24, 20252 Comments

I’m gonna take a trip, In that good ole’ Gospel ship, Far beyond the sky . . .

A. P. Carter, 1939 Hymnary

Readers of the Survival Praxis label will recall our speculation that to save some of us from the impending solar nova, there could be extraterrestrial visitors who might be willing to evacuate us in their spacecraft per the movie plot of Knowing, starring Nicholas Cage (2009).

I summarily dismissed the notion that it was possible, at this point, to get out of the solar system in time, assuming that 2046AD is an accurate deadline. Furthermore, if there are risks that a solar nova could happen at “any time,” then alien technology would already be just as vulnerable as our own. Who among the starry host would be willing to take such a risk?

In comes the extraordinary Comet 3I-ATLAS (named with the letter “i” for “interstellar” and “3” because it is the third one found by “Atlas” – the NASA-funded telescope in the high mountains of Chile). I say “extraordinary” because it’s big, it’s fast, and it doesn’t act like a normal comet.

Introduced in our second installment of the “Black Star” series, there is a persistent and growing belief that the comet is “artificial”: either an elaborately constructed spaceship, or more likely, a “colonized” and terraformed comet.

Get the latest on this anomalous visitor from the Angry Astronaut:

And check with Jesse at BPEarthwatch:

And here:

James McCanney’s Cometary Science

For decades, James McCanney has argued that interplanetary space travel and even interstellar travel could be achieved by sending a space ship to intercept a passing comet. Not only would it save fuel, but the comet itself could be mined for raw materials during the flight.

Clocking currently at 150,000 miles per hour (68km/s), Comet 3I-Atlas’ parabolic orbit would definitely get any passengers out of the solar system in quick order.

Problem is: the human race is having great difficulty getting past low-Earth orbit and does not seem to have the technology to get a manned craft to the moon, let alone a comet (although we are capable of sending unmanned craft and landing on a comet).

Extra-terrestrial passengers may be “on board” this interstellar train and we could have taken advantage of the opportunity to get at least some of us out of harm’s way, but once again, it’s too late.

The above commentators are obviously unfamiliar with McCanney’s science, otherwise they would have understood that these “lights” are indicators of electrical interaction with the Sun. That this interaction has occurred so early in this comet’s trajectory suggests other significant factors of consequence which will be discussed in the next installment of the “Black Star” series.

For now, it is recommended that recent episodes of McCanney’s hour-long presentations on cometary science – which are now available on his YouTube channel – be reviewed in order to appreciate a different point of view.

For those of you who indulge the “Rapture” doctrine alluded to in the opening refrain above, you better rethink that option, too.