00:00there is a mysterious object flying through our solar system right now it's
00:05called 3i Atlas but some say it may be an alien spaceship why because it's not
00:12from around here it came from another star and it's moving on a path no
00:15planet or comet should take and here's the strangest part it looks like it's
00:20being pushed it's moving at a velocity of about a hundred thirty five thousand
00:26miles per hour so it's going really fast when telescopes locked onto 3i Atlas they
00:30noticed weird things its orbit goes against the direction of everything else
00:35in the solar system that's called a retrograde path and instead of spitting
00:39out the usual water vapor it's oozing mostly carbon dioxide way more than any
00:44normal comet at one point it even released a plume of gas towards the Sun like it
00:48was firing a little engine NASA says that's probably natural maybe the Sun
00:53completed it oddly you have to be an interstellar object to be going that fast
00:56at that distance from the Sun but some scientists aren't so sure Avi Loeb the
01:00Harvard astronomer who once said the first interstellar visitor oh mua mua might
01:05have been alien tech is watching this one closely he says these patterns look
01:10deliberate to the composition the direction even the acceleration it's as
01:13if something is controlling it he's not claiming aliens are behind the wheel but
01:18he's urging the world to take it seriously because if this object is propelled by
01:22technology even ancient technology it would mean we've just detected the first
01:27evidence of another civilization of course not everyone's ready to pack for
01:31Mars NASA says 3i Atlas is behaving like an odd comet or spacecraft they believe
01:36strange chemistry or sunlight pressure could explain everything and Neil deGrasse
01:41Tyson my favorite astrophysicist this usual calm way says let's finish the
01:45science before we scream aliens the universe is weird enough already so maybe
01:49it's a comment maybe it's something else but of course when something from
01:52another star seems to our sky and seems to move with purpose you don't just
01:58wave goodbye you watch you wonder you listen in case it's trying to say hello I'm
02:03I'm going to show you guys thank you for watching first things fast
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