Diluted Dante wrote:Weird in "how can he get away with it", but not much else.
superflyninja wrote:Also look, a scientist man arguing that Oumuamua maybe technological in nature: https://www.space.com/avi-loeb-alien-technology-has-visited
Katie Mack, a well-known astrophysicist at North Carolina State, also took issue with the alien hype.
"The thing you have to understand is: scientists are perfectly happy to publish an outlandish idea if it has even the tiniest sliver of a chance of not being wrong," she wrote on Twitter.
"But until every other possibility has been exhausted dozen times over, even the authors probably don't believe it."
Asked if he believed the hypothesis he put forward, Bialy told AFP:
"I wouldn't say I 'believe' it is sent by aliens, as I am a scientist, and not a believer, I rely on evidence to put forward possible physical explanation for observed phenomena."
The other co-author, Avi Loeb, chairman of Harvard's astronomy department, told NBC News humanity may never know more about the mysterious object, since it has traveled far away and isn't heading back.
"It is impossible to guess the purpose behind Oumuamua without more data," Loeb was quoted as saying.
It’s natural for Loeb to think about alien light sails, considering that he chairs the advisory committee for the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project. Starshot is aiming to send fleets of lightsail-propelled nanoprobes past the Alpha Centauri star system (and any planets that exist there) sometime in the next couple of decades. The research paper even refers to Starshot in its discussion of the alien lightsail hypothesis.
Lord_Griff wrote:Someone said to me, what if the uncanny Valley feeling we have is because we evolved to identify things that pretended to be human in the past. WooooOooOoOOO...
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