The space object was dubbed ‘Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for – roughly – “Scout.” As space travelers go, it was relatively small at just about 100 yards long, but it was a big deal in the scientific community.
A number of unusual properties about the object helped Loeb make this conclusion.
The sun’s pull will speed up an object massively as it gets closer, then kick it out the other side, only for the object to slow considerably as it gets farther away.
The object accelerated “Slightly, but to a highly statistically significant extent,” Loeb writes, as it moved away from the sun.
‘ Avi Loeb, Harvard astronomer and author of “Extraterrestrial” Loeb said the skeptics are bending over backward to assign natural origins to the object and that the explanations they’ve given to explain its weird properties don’t stand up to scrutiny.
“If we are not alone, are we the smartest kids on the block? If there was a species that eliminated itself through war or changing the climate, we can get our act together and behave better. Instead, we are wasting a lot of resources on Earth fighting each other and other negative things that are a big waste.” Since ‘Oumuamua’s appearance, a second interstellar object known as 2I/Borisov was spotted entering the solar system by a Crimean telescope in 2019.
Loeb said the technology will soon make it possible to locate more space travelers, and the only way the mystery of ‘Oumuamua will be settled is if a similar object is spotted and more thoroughly investigated with a probe.
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