For 70 years, humanity has tried listening for radio emissions coming from other star systems. This is like sitting at home and waiting for a phone call that may never come or trying to hear noises from around our own singular farm house.
Avi Loeb thinks a next step is to look around our yard. If we find a tennis ball that we did not make then it could mean that our neighbors exist and that they play tennis.
Avi Loeb is searching for objects that we know came from outside our solar system. This is known because they were traveling at a speed and direction which meant that they came from outside.
Enrico Fermi asked the question where is Everyone? Where are the aliens? However, people did not make a huge effort to look.
Single, lonely people often ask where is everyone? They have to go to dating sites or at least look out their window or leave their home to try to find people.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary funding.
Avi Loeb funded an expedition to the Pacific to find, collect and analyze the pieces of an interstellar meteor.
The new telescope will start operating next year. It will scan the southern sky every four days.
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Bwa seems more like the age of radio frequencies will come to an end and be replaced by something better as in instant communication. It must be possible, coupled atoms change their state also from whatever distance they are, im sure we miss/oversee something there that we still dont know of…
Advanced alien civilizations rose up against their radio communications infrastructure overlords thousands of years ago, they got rid of their cell phone companies and other cheating and dishonest services that were squeezing their civilization dry from constant price increases. They went back to cable companies, who now exclusively use fiber optics. Second chance to not screw up again. Yes, this is all sarcasm.
If we find the tennis ball, yes.
But Avi Loeb sees tennis balls everywhere. What other people says it’s a peeble in the distance, he thinks is a tennis ball.
I really hate the extraordinary evidence BS quote. Claims require evidencence. period. Who TF gets to decide what ‘Extraordinary ‘ even means?
a hater of the scientific method. Typical, I guess you love Graham Hancock nonsense?
The phrase SIMPLY emphasizes the importance of proportionality in evaluating evidence. If a claim is highly unusual or contradicts well-established knowledge, the evidence must be correspondingly robust and compelling.
If I say I saw a DOG on the street, it’s a common ocurrence. You will require minimal evidence, maybe just my word for it.
If I say I saw a unicorn on the street, this is an extraordinary claim because it contradicts our understanding of biology and the known existence of animals, thus requiring much stronger evidence to be credible.
Do you disagree someone claiming they saw a unicorn need to backup their claim with MUCH STRONGER evidence for their story to be credible? If you don´t why do you disagree with Sagan’s quote?
Your rant seems to be from someone who accepts anything at face value.
If I claim Trump is an alien, an extraordinary claim, supposedly, I showing a photo (which obviously could be made on a computer) would be enough evidence for you as saying Trump is a scots descendent.
Would you believe if I told you that about Trump? Or would you require EXTRA ORDINARY evidence to support my EXTRA ORDINARY claim?
IMO, I find it highly unlikely we will ever detect alien life by detecting their radio signals (of course, I’d love to be wrong…). I say this because radio frequencies, unless uber intense and focused, fade out, evaporate after tens of light years. At most. Detecting the radio “noise” of an artificial extrasolar source, just doesn’t seem likely, as I understand the physics of radio. No, I don’t and never will understand everything, of course. I’d REALY love to be wrong. But I’m not holding my breath.
I believe advanced civilizations use telepathy for communications. It is instantaneous and confidential . For humanity to progress to a cosmological citizen, spiritual advancement will be more important than technological advancement.
David Brin posits in “Existence” that all alien civilization converge towards sending their minds and/or AI into compact computer media, with the bare minimum required to make the trip and brake into its destination, and then they just wait until a civilization develops and finds them on the far away star system, usually in space or buried in the planetary crust after aeons. Then they contact and entice us to do things for them in exchange of their knowledge. Ergo the artifacts Avi Loeb is looking for.
He posited they all use some kind of long term stable photonic crystal computers with very little power consumption, fed from the light of the stars. And Brin also assumes our Solar System would be packed with these probes, considering all the time they had to send something and wait for us to find them.
Funnily we could literally build an interstellar probe containing an LLM agent in a long term photonic data storage, with instructions to run then o a golden LP or whatever.