#coincidence — Public Fediverse posts

I love it when more than one person on my feed talks about the same random thing at the same time.

We need a word or phrase to describe this phenomenon. If you’ve heard a good one or want to make up a new slang term, please share. I will use it!

(But I hate seeing friends getting hurt, so I declare this trend officially over. 😂 Be safe out there, everyone. )

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When 4 "Coincidences" Stop Being Coincidences

A 5.6km object is heading toward Jupiter with four characteristics that break the rules:

🎯 Targeting precision - Arriving at the exact gravitational boundary used for orbital insertion (1 in 25,000 odds)

⚖️ Impossible density - Would need to be lighter than cotton candy while staying intact (physics violation) (or hollow)

🔬 Industrial chemistry - Spectral signature matches refined aerospace alloys, not space ice

🎮 Active control - Jets that defy rotational physics without stabilization systems

Combined probability: <1 in 100,000
But that is just a number, let's visualise 1:100000;

3I/ATLAS arriving at Jupiter's Hill sphere boundary after a course correction is like watching five cars in a row all have license plates ending in 777 - while they're all driving to the same address - and they all arrived exactly on time.

Or

Three spins of a Roulette Wheel landing on the same number.

March 2026 Jupiter encounter = the moment of truth.
My prediction: Something totally anomalous will happen which will either be under-reported or, totally ignored or misrepresented. Can't wait!

And in a new paper NASA documents how it shut down ("contingency mode") it's TESS probe just when it could have gathered precise data about #3iAtlas (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21569)

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