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Can the title be revised to something like "Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech that Crashed in the Pacific Ocean"? Current phrasing makes it seem like the professor crashed into the ocean.
It sounds more like a coded message for someone then it does a real article, but maybe I have been watching to many science-fiction movies lately..
The meteor he’s searching for is 45cm (18 inches)
> "We’re planning to board the ship and build a sled and a magnet attached to it that will scoop the ocean floor. And we will go back and forth, like mowing the lawns across the region, 10 kilometers in size and collect with the magnets, all the fragments that are attracted to it, and then brush them off and study their composition in the laboratory." Wouldn't this only work for iron fragments of a meteor? If the the…
I think I've seen this movie before; just don't let anybody touch the strange Sphere thing and you should be alright. Seriously though, this doesn't make much sense to me. Finding shipwrecks even when you know they exist and what general area they should be in is hard enough. This sort of search is a huge money sink, the ships, towed sonars, etc all cost a ton of money to operate.
$1.5M ain’t much depending on your priors and how much you value the discovery of extraterrestrial tech.
My estimate is something less than $0.01.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
All other metals are less magnetic than iron.
Niobium?
Can the title be revised to something like "Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech that Crashed in the Pacific Ocean"? Current phrasing makes it seem like the professor crashed into the ocean.
But, unlike their favorite Facebook group's grainy phone videos, this sounds fairly real. Drag the thing up and put it under a spectrograph, and if we haven't seen the stuff in it before, figure out what that means.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The actual article's title was "Harvard Professor Believes Alien Tech Could Have Crashed Into Pacific Ocean" which is more clear. Although to make it less woo-woo flying saucer-ish, I might have said: "Harvard Professor Believes Meteor That Crashed Into Ocean Was Alien Metal"
If it was real alien tech it could be anywhere doing anything by now. If we're not going to just assume aliens 'non-terrestrial' might be more accurate.
To not bury the lead: His team studied data the government made available from military missile tracking systems, which conveniently also false-positives on asteroids. There was one in 2014 which slammed into the Pacific Ocean at a speed at least twice that of the speed stars around us move relative to the sun, which makes it likely to be extra-solar. Based on that speed & how much burned upon entry, they concluded i…
I can imagine their disappointment if all they recover would be a few tons of platinum, iridium and such. /s
So the only thing that has been confirmed is that it is a meteorite from outside of the solar system. Jumping to the conclusion that it is "possible alien tech" seems a liiiittle bit of a stretch.
Even the first part is not confirmed.