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KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON 3.I ATLAS, A MANHATTAN-SIZED INTERSTELLAR OBJECT BELIEVED TO BE A COMET, GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO EARTH.
>> TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEW IMAGES OF THE OBJECT. IT'S APPEARING TO HAVE LOST ITS TAIL. SOME SCIENTISTS ARE NOW THEORIZING THAT THIS IS A NEW INDICATOR THAT 3.I ATLAS HAS NO COMMENT, BUT POTENTIALLY ALIEN CRAFT, JUST UNDER 6 WEEKS FROM NOW. IT'S SET TO GET CLOSE TO OUR PLANET, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, AND HAS SEVERAL SCRAMBLING FOR MORE ANSWERS. THEORETICAL PHYSICIST AND HARVARD PROFESSOR AVI LOEB CALLED ON NASA TO RELEASE ITS NEW IMAGES OF 3.I ATLAS. HE SHARED THIS WITH US LAST WEEK.
>> THE BEST IMAGE WAS TAKEN ON OCTOBER SECOND BY THE HIGH RISE COME AROUND. BOLDEN MORRIS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER AND UNFORTUNATELY, THE ARGUMENT IS BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, THESE DATA WAS NEVER RELEASED. IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE. 4 AND THE PUTTING THE POLITICS OF THE DAY DO SO BECAUSE THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.
>> SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ALL OF US HERE ON EARTH? TO HELP GET SOME ANSWERS AND SOME PERSPECTIVE, WE ARE JOINED BY WORLD-RENOWNED PHYSICIST DR. MICHIO KAKU. HE'S CO-FOUNDER OF THE STRINGFIELD VERY, AUTHOR OF QUANTUM SUPREMACY. HOW THE QUANTUM COMPUTER REVOLUTION WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. DR. KAKU, ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO SEE YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. AND THEN LET'S JUMP RIGHT INTO THIS. I WANT TO START WITH THE NEW IMAGES OF 3.I ATLAS. NOT FROM OUR OWN NASA. WE ARE STILL WAITING ON THOSE. THESE ONES ARE OUT OF SPAIN. SOME ARE NOTING IT LOOKS LIKE THIS OBJECT HAS LOST ITS TAIL AFTER PASSING THIS ON. WHAT'S YOUR TAKE HERE? AND IF THERE'S NO TAIL, DOES THAT MEAN THIS IS INDEED NOT A COMET?
>> WELL, I HAVE MY OWN POINT OF VIEW ON THIS.
>> AND THAT IS THAT THIS IS A VERY OLD OBJECT, BILLION YEARS OLD.
>> 7 BILLION YEARS, THERE'S BEEN PLENTY OF TIME TO ACCUMULATE GARBAGE. AS WE PRESENT PULL THE NICKEL CONTENT. THE COMET IS SCALE. ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IS NOT WHAT AN ORDINARY COMET SHOULD BE. AND THEN ANYTHING IS BECAUSE OVER 7 BILLION YEARS, THEY PLENTY OF TIME COULD ACCUMULATE DURING DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, DIFFERENT KINDS OF ENVIRONMENT GOES INTO. AND I THINK THAT EXPLAINS A LOT OF THE MYSTERY BEHIND BEHIND A COMET AND EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT IT. I WAS ON THE AIRPLANE THE OTHER DAY AND WHERE PEOPLE TALKING REMAINS SHOWING THEY WOULD AGAIN ABOUT THE COMET. TO DID YOU DID YOU POP YOUR HEAD OVER THE SEAT AND SAY, HI, I'M DR. MICHIO KAKU, ONE OF THE FOREMOST EXPERTS ON AND THIS IS MY OPINION.
>> NO, I DID SAY COULD LAND. YOU HAVE GIVEN THEM MY OPINION, YEAH. 7 BILLION YEAR OLD COUNTED AND THAT'S WHY IT'S DIFFERENT IS RIM OF THE COMET COMMISSION. OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, EXAMPLE, OR MAYBE ONLY 3 TO 4 BILLION YEARS OLD.
>> THIS ONE IS A VERY OLD COMET AND IT'S A CONSEQUENCE, DID PLENTY OF TIME TO ACCUMULATE GARBAGE. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS COMET. NICKEL I CONTENT, WHICH IS DIFFERENT THAN THE AVERAGE COMET.
>> YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL WAITING ON AN UPDATED IMAGE OF THIS OBJECT FROM NASA. WE SEE REPRESENTATIVE ANNA PAULINA LUNA SHARING THIS WEEK THAT IT WILL NOT BE SHARED. AND UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT IS REOPENED.
>> DO MAKE ANYTHING OF THIS? IS NASA HIDING SOMETHING HERE?
>> SO LIKE IT OR I WHEN HE GOT TO LOSE. I MEAN, IT'S ONLY A TO PAVE. I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE A TOP SECRET THING YOU PUT IN TO SAVE. THIS IS A SHEET OF PAPER. SO WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO LOSE BY BY ANNOUNCING THAT THEY HAVE THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE BUSTERS MORE AND MORE SPECULATION AND CERTAIN POINT, IT BECOMES KIND PRODUCTIVE.
>> BEEN CLOSELY MONITORING 3.I ATLAS FOR MONTHS NOW. I'M TRACKING THESE ANOMALIES, SOME BIZARRE BEHAVIOR. WHAT ARE THE ODDS AT WE'RE DEALING WITH SOMETHING NOT JUST OLD, BUT SOMETHING THAT'S EXTRATERRESTRIAL IN NATURE?
>> I THINK IT IS NOT 0, BUT IT'S VERY SMALL. SO 42 LOOKS LIKE AN ORDINARY COMET. IT BEHAVES LIKE ARE AND EXCEPT FOR THESE FEW ANOMALIES, DOES ACT LIKE AN ORDINARY IT. AND SO I THINK IS REALLY POINTLESS TO PRESERVE SECRETS TO KEEP THINGS THE WAY FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. THE PUBLIC WANTS KNOW.
>> AVI LOEB, MEANWHILE, OUT OF HARBOR BELIEVES THAT 3.I ATLAS MAY BE REVVING ITS ENGINE. ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT?
>> WELL, THERE'S A POSSIBILITY. YOU HAVE TO PUT PROBABILITIES WITH REGARDS TO ALL THE SPECULATION.
>> I'D BE A LITTLE BIT VERY CAREFUL LATER ON TO SAY THAT THE PROBABILITY.
>> SPECULATIONS ARE QUITE LOW. AND SO WE HAVE TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE THAT THESE