That's the premise of a new book by a top astronomer, who argues that the simplest and best explanation for the highly unusual characteristics of an interstellar object that sped through our solar system in 2017 is that it was alien technology.
Sound kooky? Avi Loeb says the evidence holds otherwise, and is convinced his peers in the scientific community are so consumed by groupthink they're unwilling to wield Occam's razor.
Loeb's stellar credentials — he was the longest-serving chair of astronomy at Harvard, has published hundreds of pioneering papers, and has collaborated with greats like the late Stephen Hawking — make him difficult to dismiss outright.
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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.
Quite a lot has been going on:
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Still, I needed a distraction and inspiration to take my mind off the lunacy of Marjorie Taylor Greene et al. — perhaps an encounter with an extraterrestrial civilization? And, no, I haven't joined Kurt Vonnegut and slipped off to Tralfamadore. That's on my bucket list.
We had a visitor on Oct. 17, 2017. It was a stranger. It had no name, and there is no record of it being here before. It was a traveler. Where it came from and where it was going are unknown. We do know it was traveling for a long time, possibly thousands of years, and that it was moving fast, upward of 200,000 mph — so fast that it entered our solar system and passed through unaffected by the sun's gravity. It wasn't a comet or an asteroid.
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Opinion: Why astronomers are interested in this mysterious signal - CNN
(CNN) In the 1997 movie "Contact," a scientist, played by actress Jodie Foster, detects a radio signal -- the first communication from an extraterrestrial civilization. That story, penned by Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan , is fiction of course. But the search for such a signal is not such a crazy story. Real scientists look to the sky, using powerful radio telescopes, hoping to hear even a faint whisper of a radio signal from of one our celestial neighbors.
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Alan Tudyk, one of TV and film's greatest supporting actors, steps into the lead role as a marooned alien, who is forced to pose as an alien in a small town while he rebuilds his spaceship.
Being forced to learn more about humans to maintain his secret identity throws a spanner into alien Harry's plans as he suddenly finds himself entangled in moral questions about the future of mankind.
The cast includes Sara Tomko, Alice Wetterlund, Corey Reynolds, Levi Fiehler and the legendary sci-fi star Linda Hamilton.
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Respected Harvard astronomer who worked with late Stephen Hawking claims that an alien 'traveler' paid us a visit i… https://t.co/iVWmKxy2K5 MailOnline Mon Feb 08 05:46:02 +0000 2021
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit https://t.co/iBYrliGS9f physorg_com Sat Feb 06 18:19:58 +0000 2021
Astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit https://t.co/Ng62szAAon RawStory (from Washington, DC) Sun Feb 07 00:25:37 +0000 2021
Discovering there's intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history -- b… https://t.co/PUkaD5oDFv AFP (from France) Sat Feb 06 20:59:00 +0000 2021
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