The Search for Interstellar Objects and Intelligent Life with Avi Loeb

08/01/2024 39 min

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In part two of a two part interview, John Michael Godier continues his conversation with Avi Loeb of Harvard to explain in detail why he and his team believe they have found spherules from an interstellar meteor that may represent artifacts from an alien civilization.

Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the
Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/Interstellar_Expedition.pdf

Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
https://www.amazon.com/Interstellar-Search-Extraterrestrial-Future-Stars/dp/006325087X

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth https://amzn.to/2LiIxoo affiliate link

Loeb, A., 2018, "Six Strange Facts About`Oumuamua", Scientific American: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08832

Bialy, S. & Loeb, A., 2018, "Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ‘Oumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration?", ApJ, 868, 1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11490