(Bonus) Harvard's Top Astronomer Avi Loeb On Oumuamua

(Bonus) Harvard's Top Astronomer Avi Loeb On Oumuamua

In 2017, scientists sighted the first interstellar object, the first thing we definitively know came from outside our solar system… something that was not bound to the gravity pull of our sun. But that was just the beginning of the oddness exhibited by the object known as Oumuamua. It didn’t behave like a comet. It didn’t seem to be made of materials we expect. It was shaped in a way that nothing in nature should be shaped like. And as it curved around our sun, it actually accelerated in a way that we couldn’t account for by the laws of physics. In his new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, which comes out Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top Astronomer, argues that Oumuamua was most likely an alien craft, or artifact of some kind. It likely had some sort of solar sail mechanism, and actually, suggests it might be functioning as some sort of interstellar buoy. We’re going to get into that in this episode, but stay to the end, because forget small satellites, do you know we could shoot a super small probe, about the size of a small satellite, attached to a solar sail and pushed by a laser right now, today? Humanity could reach another star for the first time in just 20 years… in all of our lifetimes, and we could get the data and pictures back within 24 years. Avi is working on this with the backing of Yuri Milner and Mark Zuckerberg among others. So, come for Oumuamua, and stay for the crazy space project that, in my opinion, should be the one we all band together to pursue. Sponsors: Netgear.com/bestwifi Metalab.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avsnitt(2322)

Elon V. Sam Day 2

Elon V. Sam Day 2

The EU escalated its DSA probe against Meta over child safety failures on Instagram and Facebook. OpenAI has effectively abandoned its Stargate JV, China suspended new robotaxi licenses after a Baidu ...

29 Apr 21min

Musk V. Altman

Musk V. Altman

The Musk v. Altman trial seated a jury in California, with opening arguments set for today. Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership, removing the AGI clause. OpenAI missed internal user and rev...

28 Apr 15min

Meta Needs To Rethink Manus

Meta Needs To Rethink Manus

China blocked Meta's $2B Manus acquisition and ordered both sides to unwind the deal, closing the "Singapore washing" loophole for Chinese AI startups. OpenAI is developing smartphone chips with Qualc...

27 Apr 21min

All The Headlines, All The Model Drops...

All The Headlines, All The Model Drops...

DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and V4 Flash, undercutting US labs on price by roughly 5x. OpenAI fired back with GPT-5.5, reclaiming benchmark crowns from Claude. Meta confirms 8,000 layoffs on May 20, and G...

24 Apr 23min

Another DeepSeek Moment On The Horizon?

Another DeepSeek Moment On The Horizon?

Microsoft considered buying Cursor but didn't pull the trigger before SpaceX's deal. Microsoft launches its first-ever voluntary retirement program, Anthropic's secondary market valuation hits $1T on ...

23 Apr 22min

Elon Buys Cursor?

Elon Buys Cursor?

SpaceX struck a deal giving it the option to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B, as xAI scrambles to catch up in AI coding. Google unveiled new TPUs and an agent platform, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Imag...

22 Apr 20min

Tim Cook Rides Into The Sunset

Tim Cook Rides Into The Sunset

Apple named John Ternus as its next CEO, with Tim Cook stepping up to executive chairman on September 1. Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B more in Anthropic, Bezos' Project Prometheus nears a $10B ra...

21 Apr 21min

Robots Winning The (Literal) Race

Robots Winning The (Literal) Race

Vercel confirmed a breach traced to an AI platform's compromised OAuth app. The NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite the Pentagon blacklist. Mac Minis face 12-week wait times from AI agent demand, ...

20 Apr 21min

Populärt inom Politik & nyheter

aftonbladet-krim
svenska-fall
rss-krimstad
p3-krim
spar
aftonbladet-daily
flashback-forever
rss-sanning-konsekvens
politiken
rss-krimreportrarna
motiv
blenda-2
rss-flodet
rss-frandfors-horna
grans
rss-vad-fan-hande
rss-aftonbladet-krim
dagens-eko
svd-ledarredaktionen
olyckan-inifran