An astronomer thinks alien tech could be on the ocean floor. Not everyone agrees

[USALiberal]

Eight years ago, a meteor believed to have been 2 feet long entered Earth's atmosphere at more than 100,000 miles an hour before exploding into tiny, hot fragments and falling into the South Pacific Ocean.

Some scientists believe it came from another star system, which would make it the first known interstellar object of its size to impact Earth.

Now, professor Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is planning an expedition to retrieve fragments of the meteor from the ocean floor. By analyzing the debris, he is hoping to determine the object's origins — even going so far as to make the extraordinary suggestion that it could be a technological object created by aliens.

Yet astronomers are wary of his claims, citing a lack of data on the object and insufficient evidence to support his bold conjectures about alien life.

More at:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/31/1119941103/astronomer-searches-ocean-extraterrestrial-meteor-alien-life-avi-loeb

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Well, ya never know I suppose.

But chances are 99.9% that it’s just a meteor.

[triron]

2. Earth has almost certainly been visited by extraterrestrial intelligence probably many times.

[brooklynite]

3. Based on what evidence?

This is not a question of the existence of extraterrestrial life; its a question of the impracticality of traveling the immense distance (even at the unachievable speed of light) between Earth and another inhabited solar system.

[leftstreet]

6. Maybe speed of light is only unachievable by us?

[cbdo2007]

4. Earth has almost certainly been visited by something we don't understand probably many times

Whether they are extraterrestrial intelligence, from within the oceans, or inter-dimensional I don't think we know yet, but there has definitely been some weird shit happen.

[USALiberal]

5. Link??