Humans have always been fascinated by the presence of another life known as aliens and their contact with us. But this time contact as claimed was by alien civilization trash. A Harvard professor and theoretical physicist Avi Loeb claimed that humans were visited by a space object in 2017.
In his upcoming book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, the professor describes the object that entered our solar system on October 19th, 2017 as Oumuamua. He also explained further how this is not simply a piece of rock.
The name Oumuamua is Hawaiian for — roughly — “scout.” The object was first spotted by an observatory in Hawaii containing the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS).
“What would happen if a caveman saw a cellphone?” Loeb rhetorically asked the New York Post in a recent interview. “He’s seen rocks all his life, and he would have thought it was just a shiny rock.”
‘Oumuamua is not natural’
Loeb cites the object’s dimensions and its movement as the primary reasons he doesn’t believe Oumuamua is natural.
The excess push away from the sun, that was the thing that broke the camel’s back,” he said.
“If we are not alone, are we the smartest kids on the block?” Loeb asked. “If there was a species that eliminated itself through war or changing the climate, we can get our act together and behave better. Instead, we are wasting a lot of resources on Earth fighting each other and other negative things that are a big waste.”
The book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth is expected to be released on 26th January 2021.