However, in doing so, there was some unusual maneuvering, like how it was flying suspiciously close to Jupiter, Venus and Mars, that led some to believe it could be an extraterrestrial spacecraft. <\/p>\n
While on a recent episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience<\/a>\u201d podcast, although totally unsure, Elon Musk agreed ATLAS could be \u201caliens,\u201d since something beyond gravity is affecting the comet\u2019s trajectory.<\/p>\n Something Musk is sure about is that due to its massive size and the fact that it\u2019s made almost entirely of nickel, the 3I\/ATLAS, which could potentially be a spacesip, has the potential to \u201cobliterate a continent\u2026maybe worse.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a real problem if it hits,\u201d Rogan said to a nodding Musk, \u201cProbably kill most of human life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt depends on what the total mass is,\u201d Musk said to the podcast host. \u201cThe thing is, in the fossil record, there\u2019s arguably five major extinction events, like the biggest one of which is the Permian extinction, where almost all life was eliminated, that actually occurred over several million years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s the Jurassic, I think that one\u2019s pretty definitely an asteroid\u2026 but what they don\u2019t count are the ones that merely take out a continent because those don\u2019t really show up on the fossil record,\u201d the businessman said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, unless it\u2019s enough to cause a mass extinction event throughout Earth, it doesn\u2019t show up in a fossil record that\u2019s 200 million years old. So there have been many impacts that would have sort of destroyed all life on half of North America or something like that through the course of history,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd there\u2019s nothing we could do about it right now,\u201d a shocked Rogan responded. <\/p>\n![\"Elon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/oct-31-2025-114670511.jpg\")
Musk appeared on a recent episode of \u201cThe Joe Rogan Experience,\u201d where the two talked about the Manhattan-sized comet 3I\/ATLAS. Youtube\/PowerfulJRE<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-113596838.jpg\")
The change of pigment also has experts concerned. NASA<\/p>\n