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Old January 27th 21, 02:42 PM posted to alt.astronomy
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Just imagine. Everything (you think) you know superceded by what some bunch
of freaky giant insectoids from Gamma Turkanis figured out 10,000 years ago!
It must be stopped! ...
As long as possible!

https://thedebrief.org/oumuamua-proves-science-doesnt-want-to-find-aliens/

`Oumuamua Proves Science Doesn't Want To Find Aliens

Tim McMillan·
27 Jan 2021
The Debrief

Are we alone in the universe?

Gazing into the vast expanse of the stars, humanity has pondered this
question for as long as we've known it was outer space and not the
heavens themselves that comprised the celestial sphere. Theologians,
philosophers, and scientists alike have nearly unanimously concluded:
"No!"

Applying their respective tradecrafts -- religious doctrine, logical
deduction, and mathematical inference -- mankind's most influential
disciplines have offered compelling evidence in support of the
existential conclusion that others are out there somewhere. In the
unfathomable vastness of space, many among our brightest and wisest
minds believe it is simply inconceivable that Earth is the only place
where life has flourished over the nearly 14 bn years since the
birth of the universe. Despite Herculean efforts in multiple
disciplines, however, the belief that life must exist outside of the
"pale blue dot" we call home has remained just a belief -- albeit an
informed one. A plausible theory based on abductive reasoning, but
positively unverifiable.

Yet one distinguished astrophysicist says the answer to this age-old
question may already have passed us by and, surprisingly, no one seems
to care.

Since the fall of 2017, Dr. Abraham "Avi" Loeb, the longest serving
chair of Harvard's Dept of Astronomy and author of
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth ,
has found himself in the interesting position of facing not only the
difficult question of whether we are alone in the universe, but the
even trickier and more unsettling question that follows: "Do we even
want to know?"

[image] 'Oumuamua the first ever detected interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua the
first ever detected interstellar visitor
This very deep combined image shows the interstellar object `Oumuamua at
center. It is surrounded by the trails of faint stars that are smeared as
the telescopes tracked the moving object. Credit: ESO/K. Meech et al.

....

`Oumuamua - Unlike Anything Seen Before or Since

Over 3 years since its initial discovery, scientists are little
closer to concluding exactly what `Oumuamua is than they were in the
fall of 2017.

Data generated by the interstellar traveler's reflection of sunlight
as it passed through the solar system suggests `Oumuamua has an
extremely elongated shape, with a length roughly 5 to 10 times its
width. The object is believed to be on the order of 330 to 3,300 feet
(100 to 1,000 meters) long, with an estimated thickness of 115 to 548
ft (35 to 167 meters). Its thin, elongated shape makes it vastly
unlike any asteroid ever observed.

....

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