The Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb thinks alien technology could be on the ocean floor. And if he finds anything with buttons on it, he would very much like to press those buttons.
expedition to retrieve pieces of the meteor from the ocean floor. Based on data from the Defense Department, Loeb has focused his search to an area of nearly 40 square miles.
"There is also the possibility that it will be made of some alloy that nature doesn't put together, and that would imply the object is technological," Loeb said."If you ask what my wish is, if it's indeed of artificial origin, and there was some component of the object that survived, and if it has any buttons on it, I would love to press them.
The data is also"sanitized," Desch said. Because some of the data comes from a network that includes classified military satellites, the available data is stripped of information that could reveal U.S. defense capabilities, such as error bars that indicate precision of measurements.Avi Loeb wants to test some far-out ideas. The astronomer is launching a $1.5 million expedition to retrieve pieces of a meteor from the ocean floor.
"I think there's a case to be made that this could be interstellar in origin," Meenakshi Wadhwa, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University, said."[But I would] add the caveat that none of the work so far on this is in the peer-reviewed literature. ... The science has not really been vetted to the extent that I would like to see it vetted.
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