So… is everyone good?
December 19 was the newest conspiracy day.. the big one. HUGE changes, we were told.. stay indoors and hide! The Comet is passing by! The world will be hit! Aliens will land!
Just a few days ago we were told by the media that Comet ATLAS was going to pass closer to Earth than ever before. And when you hear that, you’re led to believe that “close” means visible. Like it’s in our neighborhood. Our backyard. Something you’ll look up and actually see.
But no. Not really.
“Closest” here doesn’t mean close in any practical sense. It means close in science and space terms. The closest point of its trajectory relative to us, not close enough to matter in the way people immediately imagine. We’re talking really far away.
So we’re good, right?
Aliens didn’t land. Although, of course, some of the seers and psychics among us are claiming a path has shifted, a cycle has changed, or that we’ve entered some new phase of existence. Maybe we did. Still feels the same to me. I don’t know about you, but there’s not much difference between yesterday and today.
That said, there is still a mystery here.
The more sensational idea is that this comet—or whatever it actually is, because we don’t truly know—was detected emitting a strange radio signal. That discovery reportedly happened back in October, when a radio telescope in South Africa picked up something unusual. Now that is where things get interesting, because comets don’t typically behave that way.
The object is expected to pass about 33.3 million miles from Jupiter on March 16, 2026. After that, it should be on its merry way out of our solar system. We think.
Unless, of course, the aliens onboard are more interested in a gas giant than us. Maybe they just need more fuel.
It’s funny, though. We really do have a tendency to make everything about ourselves, don’t we?
