Extraterrestrial

Avi Loeb: 'we should be looking for interstellar alien space trash'

By T.K. Randall
September 15, 2024

Image: Avi Loeb
Credit: Christopher Michel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) Loeb's efforts to find evidence of intelligent alien life have certainly been raising a few eyebrows in recent years, with the Harvard astrophysicist making headline news around the world in 2023 when he attempted to retrieve pieces of an interstellar meteorite from the ocean floor that he believed may have been artificially created by an intelligent alien civilization from a distant solar system.

In a recent interview with Live Science, he also described another method for finding evidence of ET - scouring our immediate vicinity for interstellar technological space trash.

"I would like to see if, among the rocks that arrive into the solar system from other stars, there is any technological debris," he said.

"It could be space trash or it could be functional, but it should be easy to differentiate between rocks and something else."

"So if I had all the money in the world, I would establish an experimental program to monitor objects within the orbit of the Earth around the sun."Loeb also suggested that more effort should be made to look for signs of life on Mars.

"There was some preliminary evidence that perhaps the soil on Mars has some tantalizing signatures of life that were first hinted at with the Viking mission [in 1976]," he said.

"There are lots of things we can do which are not more difficult than were done already in the '70s."

"It's just a pity that NASA is not doing it."

You can find the full interview with Loeb on Live Science.

Source: Live Science

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