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The Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts
31:41 - 38:26 (06:44)
Researchers are rethinking the way we search for extraterrestrial intelligence and exploring the possibility that we may have come across artifacts sent by extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Researchers on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence propose three different classes of artifacts that predate modern times that extraterrestrial intelligence may have already sent to Earth.
31:41 - 34:42 (03:01)
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Researchers on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence propose three different classes of artifacts that predate modern times that extraterrestrial intelligence may have already sent to Earth. Class three artifacts are proposed as the most likely to exist and should be what researchers are looking for currently.
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Oumuamua, an object from another star system discovered in 2017, exhibits non-gravitational acceleration, leading some, including Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, to believe it is alien technology.
34:42 - 36:18 (01:35)
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Oumuamua, an object from another star system discovered in 2017, exhibits non-gravitational acceleration, leading some, including Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, to believe it is alien technology.
ChapterThe Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts
EpisodeHow Alien Contact Might Work
PodcastStuff You Should Know
Avi Loeb, who launched the Galileo Project in 2021, believes that an object that entered our solar system called "Oumuamua" is actually a billions of years old defunct alien probe that no longer works, stumbled accidentally into our solar system, and has caused the U.S. government to launch discussion groups about the topic.
36:18 - 38:26 (02:08)
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Avi Loeb, who launched the Galileo Project in 2021, believes that an object that entered our solar system called "Oumuamua" is actually a billions of years old defunct alien probe that no longer works, stumbled accidentally into our solar system, and has caused the U.S. government to launch discussion groups about the topic.