3I/ATLAS Releases Object Into Space Causing Scientist Concerns | Michio Kaku

I remember, at this very moment, we're facing a situation that NASA didn't prepare us for. The object, the primary messenger we’ve been tracking for months, has vanished abruptly. One moment it was there, a silent testament to an intelligence beyond our own, and the next, it was simply gone from every sensor array we have. All that remains is the child it birthed, the fragment, and it's accelerating towards the inner solar system. It’s a calling card, left in our mailbox while the messenger slips away into the night. For years, I have spoken on television programs and in university lecture halls about the probabilities of encountering extraterrestrial intelligence. I’ve often used the Kardashev scale as a framework—a way to classify civilizations based on their energy consumption: Type I harnessing its planet, Type II its star, and Type III its entire galaxy. We, of course, are a lowly Type 0, still drawing our energy from dead plants. I have always maintained that contact would not be a fleet of warships appearing over our cities, as our cinema so crudely imagines. It would be subtle. It would be scientific. It would be an anomaly that quietly unravels everything we thought we knew. And now, that anomaly is here. It began with 3I/2025 ATLAS.