TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loeb,Abraham
TI  - Extraterrestrial: the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth 
SN  - 9780358278146
AV  - QB54 .L643 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Extraterrestrial beings
KW  - Life on other planets
KW  - Oumuamua (Interstellar object)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index; Scout -- The farm -- Anomalies -- StarChips -- The lightsail hypothesis -- Seashells and buoys -- Learning from children -- Vastness -- Filters -- Astro-archaeology -- Oumuamua's wager -- Seeds -- Singularities
N2  - "Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star"--; In late 2017 scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Loeb showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization. Here he outlines his controversial theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our species and our planet. -- adapted from jacket
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