BelindasShadow
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Ok, please share your qualifications.Story here:
Harvard scientist suggests what looks like a comet might be alien technology
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" alien technology.www.heraldmailmedia.com
Of course he contends it may be alien tech; he has a few books out about it and he's cashing in.
Nobody else that makes a living as a research astrophysicist agrees with any of this claptrap. Loeb has traded in his Harvard association for the opportunity to sell books that have no basis in reality.
The sad thing is he actually knows better: he knows how solar sails function, and yet he still contended the Oumuamua object that passed by the earth in 2018 was potentially a solar sail of extraterrestrial origin. The solid makeup of the object made that contention impossible.
He even admitted his paper on the 3I/ATLAS topic, which was not peer reviewed, was simply an "interesting exercise in its own right, and is fun to explore." So it's not real science; it's science fiction. It's "fun."
There is money to be made by science deniers...even by those scientists within the system. I think this is doubly pathetic because it means they make more money selling fantasy stories than they do practicing actual science.
If you think all the astrophysicists that disagree with him are simply doing it out of spite, consider how *earth shattering* a story of actual detection of extraterrestial technology would be: every one of these scientists believe it is out there somewhere. They are all in this together, and Avi Loeb is making a mockery (and bank!) of it.
Yeesh.
