Seeing the Spaceship: Why We Need to Pay Attention to Anomalies
In late 2018, the chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Astronomy made an astonishing statement about ‘Oumuamua – a recently discovered object from intergalactic space that had entered our solar system. “Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment,” Abraham ‘Avi’ Loeb wrote in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The comments set off a firestorm of criticism. “The authors of the paper insult honest scientific inquiry”, … Continue reading Seeing the Spaceship: Why We Need to Pay Attention to Anomalies
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