Oh pip! Not aliens!

Well, here is another disappointment. Some of us had faint hopes that the 3I/Atlas object entering the solar system from Deep Space would turn out to be the TriSolarians coming to sort us out, or at least to put us out of our misery. But no! It turns out it is just another comet.

China’s Tianwen-1 Mars probe’s orbiter successfully observes interstellar object 3I/ATLAS - Global Times

… After Tianwen-1’s data was received and processed by the ground application system, the images clearly revealed the comet-like features of the object, consisting of a cometary nucleus and its surrounding coma, with a diameter reaching several thousand kilometers, per the statement the CNSA provided to the Global Times on Thursday. …

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Not aliens, just lots of fake “news”, formerly known as wild-ass-guesses by click-baiting unscrupulous, shameless people calling themselves “journalists”. In other words, it’s Thursday.

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