OC_24_7_3_Avi_Loeb_Finding Extraterrestrial Life in the Next Decade

The next decade will bring new opportunities for finding life beyond Earth. Examples include finding life-as-we-do-not-know-it by fishing in the oceans of methane and ethane on Titan and scooping the lava tubes on Mars, or by discovering interstellar space trash of technological origin. Over the past decade, the first four interstellar objects were discovered. They include two interstellar meteors, IM1 and IM2, detected by U.S. Government satellites on January 8, 2014 and March 9, 2017; `Oumuamua detected on October 19, 2017; and the interstellar comet Borisov detected on August 29, 2019. Among these four, the first three appeared anomalous relative to known solar-system rocks. In June 2023, Avi Loeb led an expedition to the Pacific Ocean that recovered molten droplets from IM1's fireball.

[@theedain]

Great to see Avi on your show!

[@quasarsupernova9643]

Why does Avi dismiss the truck theory of spherules so casually?

[@titanium4k]

It is a giant finger 👉