Category: 3I/ATLAS

3I ATLAS: Along Comes a Black Swan

Ars Notoria, 22nd October 202523rd December 2025

Cited from A. Loeb: 3I/ATLAS from the Two-meter Twin Telescope in the Canary Islands, August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun, extending out to a projected distance of about 6,000 kilometers from the nucleus, The direction away from the Sun (where a generic cometary tail…

3I/ATLAS

Decolonise the Language of Space Exploration

Ars Notoria, 21st August 202511th September 2025

Colonialist is a reference to an interloper; someone who needs to be dislodged, removed, or absorbed by Philip Hall I was born in South Africa. The great grandson of colonialists: Arthur Lewis Hall and Rosalie Powell. My great-grandfather was one of Kitchener’s babes. He was a geologist brought out to…

3I/ATLAS

Gradience, Marginal Cases, and the Problem of 3I/ATLAS

Ars Notoria, 16th August 202528th September 2025

“Naturgemälde” illustration. Bonpland, Aimé and Alexander von Humboldt The Danger of Categorising to the Norm by Phil Hall Human cognition relies on prototypes—idealised examples that define categories (Rosch 1975). A prototypical comet, for instance, exhibits outgassing, a dusty coma, and a visible tail. But when an object deviates from this…

2/I Borisov

Don’t Panic, 3I/ATLAS is Coming

Ars Notoria, 31st July 202511th September 2025

The trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, photo NASA/JPL-Caltech “Piensas mal y atinaras.”— Old Mexican proverb By Phil Hall While films like Don’t Look Up! highlighted the danger of accidental asteroid impacts, a more disturbing possibility exists: intentional planetary bombardment. An interstellar object traveling at 60 km/s, if artificially directed, could serve as the…

‘It’s delightful! Very, very funny … Anyone with a true sense of him should find it wholly engaging!’

Stephen Fry

What would Oscar Wilde make of modern day Britain? And what would modern day Britain make of a latter day Oscar Wilde?

In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Dan Pearce brings the celebrated and notorious Victorian wit a century into the future, with great humour and a Wildean sense of mischief in his own right.

“J. W. Wood’s stories evince a gift for the quotidian, employing brilliant conceits and mischievous turns of phrase which enrich the writing at every point. Capturing the frustration of curtailed lives and the grim horrors of the corporate world, Wood presents a meta-fictional universe in which the rich realise their folly and we control computers, not the other way round.”

—Julian Stannard, award-winning poet and author of The University of Bliss (Sagging Meniscus Press, USA, 2024)

That Was Hugo Blythe MP is the professional journal, presented in diary form, of government researcher Alaric Casteele. Casteele’s diary is a skilful interchange between events in his domestic life, and his meticulous eavesdropping into the political intrigues levelled against his boss Hugo Blythe, a government minister pivotal in the New Labour project, climaxing as a general election approaches.

Delightful, informative and sceptical – but never cynical – The Rights of Man And Fish nods to Voltaire, Günter Grass and Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, while maintaining a humour and breadth of vision entirely its own. Join Gisella as she finds out what makes the ideal society based on what she learns from a millennium of human error, intrigue and haute cuisine. Wittily illustrated by Pete Field, this work is a tour de force.

Congratulations to one of our regular contributors, Andy Hall, for winning the prestigious Trieste Photo Days award for best author. The competitions was judged by the renowned photographer Harry Gruyaert, who said:

'I chose this work because it's the kind of work I would have liked to have taken myself. His compositions stand out; he's pulling order from chaos and some of these images are truly powerful.'

Prospero in his cell busy indwelling, might have time to ponder the mystery of the myth that is Bob Dylan. He is concealed behind a dark blue velvet curtain embroidered in gold; Dylan with a megaphone standing on a stool, blown up from Minnesota.

Phil Hall

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3I ATLAS: Along Comes a Black Swan

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