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Podcast: An Americanist
Episode: Human Arms In The Mail Is Not Prime
Description: TALK TO ME, TEXT ITA Manhattanāsized interstellar object just got weird: Atlas 3I is accelerating in ways gravity alone canāt explain and shining bluer than the Sun. We unpack what those signals really mean, why a cometās outgassing is still the benchmark explanation, and how a December window could settle the debate with clearer measurements. Yes, Avi Loeb floats the āalien engineā idea; we stressātest that claim against spectroscopy, trajectory modeling, and the history of tricky smallābody photometry.Then the universe gives way to a very terrestrial jolt: a Kentucky resid...