I fell down a rabbit hole about interstellar objects and now I can't sleep
So I was reading about the Papua New Guinea fireball
from 2014 and I had no idea this thing was actually
confirmed to have come from outside our solar system.
Like it physically hit Earth and the data proving where
it came from sat in classified military satellites for
years until a Harvard guy basically dug it out.
That alone is weird enough. But then I found out about
Oumuamua. Then 3I/Atlas in 2025.
Three of these things. In one decade.
For basically all of human history we had zero ability
to detect interstellar objects passing through. We just
couldn't see them.
So we find three almost immediately after developing
the tools to look and people aren't more freaked out
by this?
The part that got me was SETI literally pointing the
Allen Telescope Array at 3I/Atlas and scanning it for
artificial signals. They don't do that for random rocks.
They heard nothing btw.
I don't know what to make of any of this honestly.
Anyone here looked into this stuff? What's the actual
scientific consensus on where these things are coming from?