Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a comet and an extremely interesting one at that. Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence of its cometary nature, however, erroneous claims that it could be an alien spacecraft and even that the aliens have nefarious intentions* are getting a lot of media coverage. We thought, hey, if they are rolling with silly ideas about this comet, we can too, AND we can be much more imaginative, so we asked a bunch of academics and members of the public if 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, what would they like it to be? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

*One of the cruxes of the "alien" claim is that, currently, Earth and the comet are on opposite sides of the Sun, so from our point of view, the comet is

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