cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/359905
Archived version: https://archive.ph/wVtay
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/359905
Archived version: https://archive.ph/wVtay
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230710060207/https://abc11.com/alien-technology-avi-loeb-harvard-professor-spheres/13482644/
You don’t have the whole context. The relevance of it being interstellar is that, at the speeds it was travelling, it should have vaporized completely when entering out atmosphere. The fact that pieces survived reentry is anomalous, as it indicates that it must have been made from alloys not naturally present in any other object that we’ve seen entering out atmosphere from outer space.
If those alloys are natural (but never seen before) or artificial (and so created by some other intelligence), that’s the question here.
I believe you could potentially fill an endless space with the amount of knowledge humans currently lack.
This is a potentially cool discovery, but it seems a massive leap to suggest the alloy was intelligently derived.
That was more my point. This is a fascinating thing to study! It’s new and from very far away and observations around it are odd! That’s all exciting! But that’s all exciting without having to force in, “ALIENS CONFIRMED???” into the conversation around it.