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2026-04-29 05:51:10

sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Remember when comet 3I was going to turn out to be an alien spaceship and maneuver around and attack Earth in early 2026? (...Surely I wasn't the only one who got a parade of wacko/scared/bizzare emails about that...?)

2026-04-29 05:53:45

SnoopJ

SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

@sundogplanets thought this was an Avi Loeb thing for a second

2026-04-29 05:54:19

Legit_Spaghetti

Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

@sundogplanets Avi Loeb at it again, I take it?

Although, given... gestures vaguely at everything ...well, let's just say that an alien invasion sounds like it might solve like 99% of our problems.

2026-04-29 06:18:29

Meph

M@nerdculture.de

@sundogplanets wait, what?

2026-04-29 06:20:46

Michael Busch

michael_w_busch@mastodon.online

@sundogplanets

You and I continue to share some of the contents of the spam folders.

2026-04-29 06:27:07

Perrin42

Perrin42@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets

They took one look at us and figured we were doing well enough attacking ourselves, so they didn't need to bother.

2026-04-29 08:57:41

Juffo-Wup

mndflayr@metalhead.club

@sundogplanets

Yeah, I had high hopes for this.
Especially the "attacks earth" part would have changed many things to the better...

2026-04-29 09:09:37

Farah 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼

farah@beige.party

@sundogplanets Wait what? Dang I miss all the fun things!!

2026-04-29 09:54:18

BashStKid

BashStKid@mastodon.online

@sundogplanets I suppose it’s one way to note the centenary of Andre Maurois’ The War against the Moon …

2026-04-29 13:46:21

Ben Brockert

wikkit@mastodon.social

2026-04-29 15:44:03

Prof. Sam Lawler

sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Screenshot from an email that says: Dear Professor Lawler, The comet 3I/Atlas passed perihelion at 11:47 UT today. I realized that it was only 50 million km away from Earth's orbit today. However, president Trump realized this and cleverly arranged for <br />Earth to be on the other side of the Sun so that we never get to under 280 million km from it. I think India and Pakistan should jointly nominate president Trump for the Nobel peace prize for double the usual amount for his saving the Earth. I request you <br />to make efforts to involve Canada in this effort. Regards,

I think I have shared this before, but it's so delightfully bizarre that I have to share it again.

Behold, the most ?!?!? email I've ever received:

2026-04-29 15:46:26

Obbie King

ObbieZ@urbanists.social

@sundogplanets Better idea: launch Tr**p into the sun. Everybody wins!

2026-04-29 15:46:32

The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️‍⚧️

rebelrebel62@mstdn.social

@sundogplanets That’s certainly… special

2026-04-29 15:51:10

*_jߍyrope

jrp@hub.kliklak.net

@Prof. Sam Lawler Hilarious. A part of me is wondering, though, if this might just be joke? Hard to say.

2026-04-29 15:53:58

Prof. Sam Lawler

sundogplanets@mastodon.social

One thing that was fun about being in New Zealand and working with the University of Canterbury interstellar objects group for a few weeks was hearing all the stories about weird emails/calls/interactions with Avi Loeb-adjacent conspiracy theory/alien people. Interstellar objects seem to particularly attract that kind of attention (I'm sure Loeb hasn't helped)

But even with all those stories about the weird world of interstellar object conspiracy theorists, this email was the winner

2026-04-29 15:54:00

Rob van Kan🔻

edgeofeurope@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets I do not watch "Karen" videos of people losing their wits and being paraded on the internet for laughs and clicks. It saddens me and I see nothing delightful in it. And this is much the same.
So someone wrote a rambling mail. Let it rest.

2026-04-29 15:54:51

Graeme

graemewinter@mas.to

@sundogplanets thank you for the added slug of weirdness in an otherwise dull day

That's a real eyebrow raiser

2026-04-29 16:00:31

Thorium

Thorium@social.linux.pizza

@sundogplanets Wonder what brand of aluminum that person makes their hat from 🤔

2026-04-29 16:01:15

Gregly

gregly@retro.pizza

@sundogplanets I want to believe that this is tongue-in-cheek satire, but I honestly can’t tell anymore.

2026-04-29 16:01:21

sergio_101

sergio_101@social.sixdegreesofohio.com

@sundogplanets

Maybe a decade ago, I found a hive of flat earthers posting proofs of their view of the universe. I thought, hmm.. this isn't how this works, so I engaged. Politely. Thinking it might be a good time to explain how we know how these things work.

I became the target of this group, and still take heat for it today. I still think it would be cool to see their mathematical model.

But i get some awesomely insane emails and DMs.

2026-04-29 16:02:35

rickf

rickf@indieweb.social

@sundogplanets Let me guess, the email came from a "Professor John Barron" from Palm Beach, Florida?

2026-04-29 16:06:11

Dr Neenah Estrella-Luna

starluna@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets I'd like to point out that they were very respectful and actually addressed you as "Professor."

2026-04-29 16:25:58

Schamschula

schamschula@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets What powers he has! Lol!

2026-04-29 16:26:14

John Appel

jappel@wandering.shop

@sundogplanets Sadly there are some people in this world whose disconnection from reality is so profound, there is literally no way to bring them to see the world is not how they conceive it.

2026-04-29 16:53:52

Matt Chambers

IzzyChambers@social.vivaldi.net

@sundogplanets Was it from JD Vance?

2026-04-29 17:13:59

WTL

WTL@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets 😳🤪😬🤮

2026-04-29 17:33:04

Dave

TheLancashireman@hostux.social

@sundogplanets

🤣

2026-04-29 18:41:06

Simon Johnson

Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org

@sundogplanets

🤣🤣🤣

2026-04-30 00:24:33

GLC

glc@mastodon.online

@sundogplanets

That sounds a good deal like something a good friend who passed away recently would have tried unsuccessfully to publish as a letter to Le Monde or FT.

He had taken, in his despair, to ending all of his notes with "optimistically yours."

It's remotely possible this is merely crazed, but then so is (arguably) "Jubilate Agno". And it is certainly a very good example of whatever it is an example of.

2026-04-30 03:46:21

D. G. Marshall

davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets

I'll see you on the dark side of the...Sun?

2026-04-30 15:13:31

Roy -- the dull one

oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social

@sundogplanets

Who needs aliens from interstellar space? We produce a sufficient supply right here on Earth.

p.s. The post you shared takes such an odd meander that one has to guess it may have been satirical. But when we contemplate outlandish raves like Prof. Loeb's, there seem to be otherworldly neural processes there, perhaps.