Summary

  • 3I/Atlas is behaving unlike any interstellar object ever observed, prompting speculation of alien origins.
  • Its strange trajectory will see it pass close to two of our planets before hidden by the Sun as Earth passes opposite.
  • Starbucks in South Korea have banned patrons from bringing in ‘bulky items’ such as desktop computers and printers.
  • The UK government have advised citizens to delete old emails and pictures from cloud-based services to conserve water during the current drought.
  • River Runner Global shows in an interactive map how a drop of water flows to the sea.
  • Toyota Motors Manufacturing Texas allows a glimpse into the manufacture of Tundras and Sequioas, showing the scale of the operation and the number of people still required despite a high level of automation.
  • Avi Loeb, the Harvard scientist who believes the object is aliens, responded to these new findings by tweeting, “The ghosts of Montezuma negative hydrogen ions in the atmosphere of Earth could have altered the trajectory of Oumuamua' and Atlas’ by creating a gravitational drag force that could surpass the gravitational force from the Sun.

By Dan Maloney

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