Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/avi-loeb-harvard-professor-alien-technology-fragments/
CAMBRIDGE - Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.
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"We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," explained Loeb, "They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth."
An analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are sub-millimeter in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.
"It has material strength that is tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA," added Loeb, "We calculated its speed outside the solar system. It was 60 km per second, faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was made of materials tougher than even iron meteorites, and moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun, suggested potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget."
rock or technological gadget? Further exploration of the site may tell.
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The article says Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology. MAY HAVE. He's studying the fragments to learn more about them. I don't see what's so outrageous about that. Loeb is a theoretical physicist who works on astrophysics and cosmology, not some random crackpot. I looked him up; his credentials are beyond impressive. He knows a hell of a lot more about this stuff than I ever will. If he thinks this is a possibility (which is all he's saying, that it's possible), who the hell am I to argue?
But it figures that there are people at DU who think they are smarter than a Harvard professor who has a PhD in plasma physics and a list of other qualifications a mile long. 
Seriously, I dare anyone to look up Avi Loeb in Wikipedia and skim the article on him, then try to tell me this is not a man who is in a position to know what he's talking about. I'll try not to laugh.
I pick up a lot of items of varying quality (mostly good) on Hacker News, and decide whether it's worth posting on DU.
Late at night, I pass on a lot of items or I don't dig really deep. I forgot that Loeb is controversial.
If people call me on raising controversy, I can use the "Uncle Leo" excuse. I'm old and confused. 
But I never get controversial, as in bending the rules.
That said, science can be controversial. I read "The Nature of the Universe" by Fred Hoyle early on, and still don't like aspects of the "Big Bang" theory, largely because it was invented by a priest. And there are controversies and bets being placed on theories being pure speculation or later being proven or disproven.
I do remain neutral on the subject of space aliens, despite having heard of Chariots of the Gods way back when.
OK, gotta phone home now.
