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Just a comment, I sent this to my advisor who was an astrophysicist a few years back (he and I are in plasma physics today) and here's something he pointed out,
by noobermin 2y ago
Just a comment, I sent this to my advisor who was an astrophysicist a few years back (he and I are in plasma physics today) and here's something he pointed out,
"[...]Abraham Loeb is about as controversial of a figure in astronomy as you can find. He is also the head of a UFO monitoring project and he still insists that the rod like object that telescopes saw pass through the solar system about a decade ago had an extraterrestrial origin."
Googled his name (he's one of the co-authors of this article) and found this on his wiki page:
"In 2018, he suggested that alien space craft may be in the Solar System, using ʻOumuamua as an example.[7] In 2023, he claimed to have recovered material from an interstellar meteor that could be evidence of an alien starship,[8] which some experts criticized as hasty and sensational,[9][10] and for which other experts found more Earth-related explanations instead, demonstrating that the seismic signal attributed by Loeb to the alleged interstellar space craft was actually caused by ordinary truck traffic.[11]"
Take from this what you will. The section on the Galileo project talks more about the controversy surrounding him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb
- snowwrestler 2y agoKeep reading down that Wikipedia page and you’ll see that he is also a serious and well-respected scientist.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoHe's controversial but not crazy. Lots of interesting people are controversial. I think you understand that, but I'm sharing this comment so that others aren't immediately turned off at the notion.
- thegrim33 2y agoCan you believe that Galileo guy? What a crank. What a controversial figure. He actually insists that the Earth goes around the Sun. That's not science, that's just a madman, all our scientists know that the truth is the other way around. Don't read this new paper he wrote guys, look at the controversy surrounding him. Take from this what you will.
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- dig1 2y agoI learned to keep an open mind for even the craziest ideas - not because they sound funny, but because my mind might not comprehend them yet. Remember that Einstein was ridiculed for years by respective physicists [1]. At some point, Lord Kelvin even said physics was no longer attractive because there was nothing to discover (around 1900). [1] https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/ https://daily.jstor.org/why-no-one-believed-einstein/
- atombender 2y agoCounter-counterpoint: "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." — Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1979).
- FooBarBizBazz 2y ago> the rod like object that telescopes saw pass through the solar system about a decade ago had an extraterrestrial origin. I know what you mean -- "it's an alien artifact/spaceship!" -- but, literally, the sentence is true, no? It did not originate on Earth.
- luyu_wu 2y agoAs a the child of 2 astrophysicists, I can affirm. This guy is most well known for generating the academia equivalent of clickbait (popular science).