Harvard Professor Disputes Theory Behind Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
https://sputniknews.com/science/202102171082105242-harvard-professor-disputes-theory-behind-origin-of-dinosaur-killing-asteroid/
It is currently assumed in the scientific community that the Chicxulub impactor – the one that left a nearly 81-kilometre deep hole off the Mexican coast and killed the Mesozoic era s most famous reptiles – was a part of an asteroid that came from the belt between Mars and Jupiter. Not everyone agrees.
A new study put forward a fresh theory behind the origin of a devastating rock that hit the Earth more than 66 million years ago, wiping out most of the living creatures, including the dinosaurs.
According to Harvard Professor Avi Loeb and astrophysics pundit Amir Siraj, who co-authored the paper, the catastrophic object – known as the Chicxulub impactor – could have come from much further away than initially suggested by scientists. Precisely, from the Oort cloud locat
A quarter of all known stars in the universe are thought to host a perfect planet one the same size and temperature as Earth. There are approximately a zetta of them . that s a trillion billions a one with 21 zeroes after it.
So it is presumptuous for us to assume we are the only intelligent beings in this vast cosmos. In fact, to imagine we humans are alone in space is not merely arrogant, it is scientific nonsense.
On October 19, 2017, a telescope in Maui, Hawaii s second-largest island, glimpsed the first known interstellar visitor.
Without question, this object came from a distant solar system.
What If Oumuamua Is the Real Deal? 14.02.2021 - Los Angeles, USA. - Robert Hunziker
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If Oumuamua is the real deal, meaning an alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels.
Just imagine alien engineers 10.5 light-years away at “Aegir, aka Epsilon Eridani b” fueling Oumuamua with cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen (the fuel that powers Elon Musk’s SpaceX Raptor) for its big trip to the Milky Way galaxy and expeditions through Solar System Sol with its nine planets, including its exposure to a telescopic view by Earthlings. Hmm… wondering what
Solar system.nasa.gov If Oumuamua is the real deal, meaning an alien craft, then Earthlings are doing some really weird stuff on the scale of alien intelligence. Think about it… If it’s an alien craft or drone, there’s no way it entered the sun’s solar system, swooping within 15M miles of Earth, powered by fossil fuels. […]
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Feb. 11, 2021
Crime and punishment make their presence felt in this week’s recommended titles, from Russell Shorto’s family history of his grandfather’s mob ties (“Smalltime”) to Philippe Sands’s account of a Nazi fugitive (“The Ratline”); Maurice Chammah’s study of the death penalty and its decline (“Let the Lord Sort Them”) to Reuben Jonathan Miller’s look at the life that awaits ex-inmates (“Halfway Home”).
Also on our night stands this week: Ethan Zuckerman’s new book about the collapse of institutional authority (“Mistrust”), Emily Rapp Black’s memoir of motherhood and grief (“Sanctuary”), Jeremy Atherton Lin’s personal and cultural history (“Gay Bar”) and Avi Loeb’s argument that aliens visited the neighborhood in 2017 (“Extraterrestrial”). Finally, there’s Thomas Healy’s “Soul City,” about one man’s attempt to create a Black-run city in the 1970s; Charles Wheelan’s “We Came