Science
A glimpse of alien technology or an errant space rock? – The Independent
When in 2017 a mysterious object hurtled through our solar system, Avi Loeb admits he was primed to see it as alien technology. But it was the ‘anti-alien’ backlash…
Avi Loeb has spent a lot of time thinking about how to explore the interstellar wilds. A prolific astrophysicist at Harvard University and chair of the advisory committee for Breakthrough Starshot, a project that aims to send probes to the nearest star system, Loeb envisions shooting powerful lasers at lightsails thin, reflective spacecraft akin to mirrors to accelerate them to star-hopping speed.
So when a bizarre object from interstellar space hurtled through our solar system in 2017, Loeb readily…
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