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Professor Avi Loeb doesn’t care if people think he’s a maverick (The Washington Post/Getty)
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vi Loeb doesn’t care if people think he’s a maverick. He explains it like this: one day, when he was a boy at school, he entered the classroom and saw the other children jumping on their desks and stopped to watch. When the teacher came in she said, look at Avi, he is so well behaved. “I was not particularly well behaved,” he told me recently. “I was just wondering whether it makes sense to jump around. I don’t do what everyone else is doing because I want to think about it for myself.”
BBC Science Focus Magazine
In 2017, the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii spotted an interstellar object passing by Earth for the first time. Shortly after, Harvardâs Prof Avi Loeb was met with a backlash from the scientific community for suggesting it could be of alien origin. Now, several years on he has written a book,
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, outlining why we still canât out rule the possibility, and why scientists should always keep an open mind.
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How do we know that âOumuamua wasnât just a regular comet?
Astronomers suspected that it must be a comet because most of the objects in the Solar System are at the periphery have ice on the surface. The ice would warm up by the sunlight hitting it, and then it will end up in vapour and shrouded with dust. So, we end up with this cometary tail surrounding these icy rocks and most of the objects lost by other stars would come from the periphery because of passi