- Scientists spotted the first sign of intelligent life outside the Earth in 2017, according to a new book by Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard University.
- The “rocky, cigar-shaped object with a slightly reddish tint” was named by NASA ‘1I / 2017 U1’ Oumuamua ‘.
- “There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization,” according to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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An extraterrestrial object that flipped through space near Earth in 2017 was written by Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb in a book published this month.
According to Loeb, it was the first sign of intelligent life outside the earth.
Scientists from an observatory in Hawaii see ‘an object floating through our inner solar system, moving so fast that it could only come from another star’ ‘, according to the marketing summary of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt book,’ Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent ‘Living beyond the earth. “
According to Loeb, a professor of science with a doctorate in physics, the object was not a natural appearance, but a bit of space debris thrown out by another galaxy.
“There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization,” according to HMH.
Physicist Avi Loeb, right, on stage with physicist Stephen Hawking and others.
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In a review, Publishers Weekly called the book a ‘controversial manifesto’.
But Loeb was not alone in his excitement about the object, which was named by Nasa ‘1I / 2017 U1’ Oumuamua ‘.
“The first confirmed object of another star to visit our solar system, this interstellar interloper appears to be a rocky, cigar-shaped object with a somewhat reddish tint,” NASA said in its description of the object.
“For decades, we have theorized that such interstellar objects exist, and that we now – for the first time – have direct evidence that they exist,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, co-administrator of NASA’s board of directors’ science mission in Washington, D.C. originally discovered. .
He added: “This discovery in history opens a new window to study the formation of solar systems outside our own.”
Anne Wojcicki, CEO and co-founder of 23andMe, wrote in the book cover that Loeb’s new book “convinces you that scientific curiosity is the key to our future success.”
“An exciting and eloquent case that we would have seen a sign of intelligent life near the earth – and that we should look further,” she wrote.
Colleague Harvard professor Eric Maskin, a Nobel laureate in economics, added: “Is the hypothesis right? Who knows. But let’s try to figure it out!”