There is a slight irony to a youtuber posting a rebuttal "for likes", arguing against the original paper being too focused on the "media algorithm".
I think Avi Loeb is an optimist on aliens, and his paper is not a traditional one, but is throwing some possible explanations out there for something that was very odd, oumuamua. To call him a crackpot, or (that guy) is a bit disingenuous imo.
Nobody would call Drake a crackpot, but his drake equation was an interesting philosophical idea none the less, I personally think we need both, and the physicists getting upset by this seem more insecure to me about someone else getting academic prestige in an unexpected way.
The video goes very much into detail about what's wrong with the way Avi Loeb does science. In one instance they charter a ship to go to the middle of the ocean to sink a big magnet to the ground, the objective being to collect fragments from another suspected extra-solar meteorite. They did manage to drag up sub-millimeter spherules which they then test for properties. They claim the properties do not match any material used by mankind, and therefore,
I mean, yeah, like... really? What kind of jumping to conclusions is this? Comments an astronomer how questionable it is the material is from that specific asteroid in the first place. Space stuff has been raining down into the atmosphere and the seven seas continuously for billions of years, right. Also, how exact can an estimate of the point of entry into ocean be given it happened in the middle of nowhere? There also currents and so on. But of course because it was Mr Loeb who had the idea of course he will find, well, something and of course it's ALIENS.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 23.3 ms ] threadI think Avi Loeb is an optimist on aliens, and his paper is not a traditional one, but is throwing some possible explanations out there for something that was very odd, oumuamua. To call him a crackpot, or (that guy) is a bit disingenuous imo.
Nobody would call Drake a crackpot, but his drake equation was an interesting philosophical idea none the less, I personally think we need both, and the physicists getting upset by this seem more insecure to me about someone else getting academic prestige in an unexpected way.
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I mean, yeah, like... really? What kind of jumping to conclusions is this? Comments an astronomer how questionable it is the material is from that specific asteroid in the first place. Space stuff has been raining down into the atmosphere and the seven seas continuously for billions of years, right. Also, how exact can an estimate of the point of entry into ocean be given it happened in the middle of nowhere? There also currents and so on. But of course because it was Mr Loeb who had the idea of course he will find, well, something and of course it's ALIENS.