Have we already been visited by aliens?
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Have we already been visited by aliens?
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#2They visited, saw Golang and left.
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#3Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend!
Re: Have we already been visited by aliens?
#4They visited, saw Golang and left.
and they're planning to return with a new generics proposal...
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#5Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU
Having watched the vid, he goes into specifics of why he thinks Oumuamua is 'not a rock' based on geometry and reflectivity. It was quite fascinating.
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#6I'm willing to disagree with most things I read here.
Entertaining, but way too many assumptions.
He* started with Oumaumua, which I am willing to entertain, and then went way off in other "thought leadership" directions that should all be their own articles.
*Avi Loeb, he. Not Elizabeth Kolbert the author.
Re: Have we already been visited by aliens?
#7Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU
Fantastic episode.
Re: Have we already been visited by aliens?
#8Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU
Very interesting, and it gives a really good highlight of the whole Oumuamua event, which got a bit distorted in the media.
The things that stood out were:
- Our range of vision to spot such objects is narrow;
- We don't have much "resolution" of the object, and we have to work with limited data;
- that fact that we managed to get that data was already really good and it's enough to theorize about a lot of stuff, but not enough to tell precisely what it was.
- the object behavior as it approached the sun doesn't match the type of object that we perceived at the beginning;
- the object could have been stationary;
Re: Have we already been visited by aliens?
#9I'm willing to disagree with most things I read here. Entertaining, but way too many assumptions. He* started with Oumaumua, which I am willing to entertain, and then went way off in other "thought leadership" directions that should all be their own articles. *Avi Loeb, he. Not Elizabeth Kolbert the author.
*She
Re: Have we already been visited by aliens?
#10I'm willing to disagree with most things I read here. Entertaining, but way too many assumptions. He* started with Oumaumua, which I am willing to entertain, and then went way off in other "thought leadership" directions that should all be their own articles. *Avi Loeb, he. Not Elizabeth Kolbert the author.
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