Please don't give Loeb more attention. He's fantasizing about aliens every time a comet enter the solar system.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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The whole article is about competitive hypotheses. No actual evidence either way. The press calling Loeb's ideas a theory is bull.
Loeb"s hypothesis is based on a few odd behaviours and pure coincidence. IE it is heading close to planets humanity finds interesting.
Given how out there his idea is. Of course such an idea takes way way more evidence then the more obvious ones.
NASA lead scientist has not even bothered to attach a name to his comment. That comment basically boiling down to Occam's Razor.
And being exactly what anyone with any understanding assumed of the articles raising this idea.
3 interstellar object since we have had the tech to see them. All 3 resulting is dumb journalists finding some scientist proposing a possibility and over playing it.
it was Loeb every time; with ounamoura and the steel nodule in ocean. He made his mission to turn everything into alien technology. Because he know that would please the public. And the media knows it too. and the attention push him to do it even more.
There should be a more general lesson to learn from that
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