The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
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Posted on 01/22/2021 7:10:15 PM PST by bitt
“Some scientists find my hypothesis unfashionable, outside of mainstream science, even dangerously ill conceived,” writes Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard. “But the most egregious error we can make, I believe, is not to take this possibility seriously enough.”
So begins Loeb’s new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Loeb is the director of the school’s Institute for Theory and Computation, and founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, and he wants you to take the possibility of aliens seriously.
Back in October 2017, our solar system received a strange visitor, unlike any seen before. Scientists couldn’t decide if it was an asteroid, a comet, or an ice chunk. To this day, it’s simply classified as an “interstellar object,” dubbed ‘Oumuamua.’
For his part, Loeb is pretty sure what it is. It’s so hard to classify, he reasons, because it’s a byproduct of intelligent life outside our solar system. But how it found its way here is anyone’s guess.
Loeb joins Ira to talk about his theory, how an early love of philosophy shaped his views as an astrophysicist, and why searching for extraterrestrial life is a little like being Sherlock Holmes.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencefriday.com ...
as seen on Tucker Carlson show tonight
He is an astrophysicist at Harvard
There’s no transcript, which is a pity—I’m not going to waste 17 minutes listening to audio when I could read the entire thing in 60s.
Bookmark.
So sad...Trump was about to declas all UFO material.
Tucker must be shoring up his ratings by making a visit to the far side.
When the day comes that they display or capture the body of an alien being, it behooves us all to just yawn.
Huh...
haha!
ooops - “The transcript for this segment is being processed. It will be posted within one week after the episode airs.”
Not a transcript, but about his book on the strange object:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial:_The_First_Sign_of_Intelligent_Life_Beyond_Earth
I love the naivite of these geniuses: if, by some incredible piece of unlikely happenstance, there really is some advanced form of life out there, chances are they will be hostile.
On the really, really stupid are looking for what most likely would wipe us out if they found out where we are.
More like under orders. We are being prepped for something big, because various media’s have been doing singular stories about UFO’s for some reason.
I think some big story is going to be released sooner than later, but they need the population to not panic when it is released.
I think some big story is going to be released sooner than later, but they need the population to not panic when it is released.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
We are way past panic. We elected an alien in 2008.
If they are more advances than us, how can we hide? Even if we don’t search for them, couldn’t they find us if they wanted to?
You guessed the deep dark secret they still haven't figured out how to break to the public.
Truth is, the aliens already landed, took one look around, and left.
"No intelligent life HERE", they said.
Here’s the link to the full episode. The Harvard Astrophysicist part starts
17 minutes and 46 seconds from the end, or at 1:16:58.
It’s the final segment, over an hour into the episode.
https://scifri-episodes.s3.amazonaws.com/scifri20210122-episode.mp3
You can play, pause, slide the marker forward and back and see the time
indicators at this link.
I’ll give it a listen now...
~Easy
My objection to the idea is founded on a basic law of physics, namely the finite speed of light. Given the unimaginable distances between even remotely life supporting environments it is far more likely that we would detect the photons of intelligent civilizations (electromagnetic energy) long before we would encounter their mass. The amount of time and energy needed by massive beings to venture into space without having any clear return on investment would strongly suggest that any really intelligent civilization would rule it out.
Since we have not yet detected any electromagnetic indication of intelligence I would put the probability of encountering them in the flesh so low that if you squared it it would equal zero.
If an extraterrestrial species has really managed to traverse the great distances to come here, they’re probably sitting back bemused, and waiting for us to come even minimally up-to-speed.
In the meantime, we are probably their weekly television sitcom.
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