{"id":119532,"date":"2021-02-13T18:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T02:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/episode-37-is-oumuamua-our-solar-systems-1st-identified-interstellar-asteroid-actually-an-alien-probe"},"modified":"2021-02-13T18:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T02:22:34","slug":"episode-37-is-oumuamua-our-solar-systems-1st-identified-interstellar-asteroid-actually-an-alien-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/episode-37-is-oumuamua-our-solar-systems-1st-identified-interstellar-asteroid-actually-an-alien-probe","title":{"rendered":"Episode 37 \u2014 Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System\u2019s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien Probe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/qztyc-fa83c6?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The cosmos is likely teeming with intelligent civilizations who have sent untold numbers of space probes out into interstellar space, says Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb is this week\u2019s Cosmic Controversy guest. This episode lives up to the podcast\u2019s branding! Episode 37 \u2014 Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System\u2019s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien Probe?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Did an alien lightsail traverse our solar system in 2017? Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb thinks so. In today\u2019s episode, I welcome Loeb to discuss his bestselling book \u2014 \u201cExtraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.\u201d We chat about why he thinks this object, Oumuamua, is likely to be artificial and why the scientific community at large remains so unreceptive to progressive scientific thinking when it comes to the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cosmos is likely teeming with intelligent civilizations who have sent untold numbers of space probes out into interstellar space, says Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb is this week\u2019s Cosmic Controversy guest. This episode lives up to the podcast\u2019s branding! Episode 37 \u2014 Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System\u2019s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}