It is certainly weird. Observations suggested 'Oumuamua is likely to be either flat or cigar-shaped, tumbling end over end every 7 hours or so and accelerating at a pace seemingly greater than could be accounted for by gravitational forces alone. Loeb's colleagues have since come up with various natural explanations for what we glimpsed of 'Oumuamua's features, including the idea that it is some sort of giant fractal snowflake .
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933210-900-avi-loeb-interview-could-oumuamua-be-alien-technology-after-all/#ixzz6mYwbXaSP
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Wright, a professor at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, is a leader in the effort to reimagine SETI research and modernize it as a fully developed scientific discipline. Despite its prominent place in popular culture, SETI science has long been on the fringes of the space science community, partly because of a lack of support from funding agencies.
Providing opportunities and training for graduate students is a critical component of any academic discipline, and the field of SETI has begun to do just that. "You can't have a field where everyone is a senior or emeritus professor," said Penn State graduate student and SETI researcher Sofia Sheikh . "You need to have people at every career stage, or the field isn't going to continue."
France look to ... Dupont for inspiration in Dublin - France 24
Mention the name Antoine Dupont and the response is the same from teammates and opponents alike -- the jaws drop, the eyes light up and the praise flows.
"I call him the Martian, the extraterrestrial," said his Toulouse and France teammate Cyril Baille.
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"Antoine impresses with every outing. It is a pleasure to play with him, we are lucky to have him in the France team."
Veteran Ireland fly-half Johnny Sexton, whose hopes of meeting his old foe again were dashed after he was omitted from the lineup for Sunday's match following a blow to the head against Wales last weekend, admits to being "incredibly impressed" by the 24-year-old.
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Actor Alan Tudyk literally rode to fame on a horse. He was 11. Given the assignment in speech class to recite a tall tale, Tudyk says he came up with a story about a grizzled old-timer.
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Protecting Your Network Against The Next Frontier: Extraterrestrials
Down here on Earth, the daily battle against malware, injection attacks, ransomware and credential theft already has many of us sleepless, manic and paranoid. Now, it seems we have to worry about ETs, too!
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What if ETs did visit Earth? What if they weren't the friendly type? The War of the Worlds narrative is among the grimmest of extremes, but let's presume that our aliens are more mischievous than malevolent.
Would our information assets be safe from an alien's prying tentacles? Does it really matter what species a cybercriminal is? Aren't alien attackers just like others who want to spy on or abscond with our precious ones and zeros?
ONLINE | Multiscalar Space: Designing-In The Extraterrestrial
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Dr. Olson is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Olson's "Into the Extreme" is the first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight, and explores the questions of "how systems are socioculturally configured as situated things." Further more: "How do disparate things become technically associated as "systems"—and to what ends?
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Avi Loeb, professeur d'astronomie à la prestigieuse université de Harvard est formel : Oumuamua est le premier sign… https://t.co/Xf9ATLoL8n franceculture (from 93.5 à Parispp) Tue Feb 09 07:00:00 +0000 2021
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