Loeb expressed his hope that, with advance warning, humanity could not just detect objects similar to Oumuamua, but send spacecraft to study them in detail.
Avi Loeb, a Harward University astronomer who proposed that Oumuamua – an interstellar body from outside of our Solar System that whizzed past Earth in 2017 – could be an artificial object, has called to expand efforts to search for alien civilizations that may exist in the depths of space.
According to the media outlet, Loeb observed that there are “tens of billions of systems like the Earth and the sun just in the Milky Way,” which would suggest that there are “quite reasonable odds” that civilizations like ours may exist, even in our galaxy.
He also noted that, since the universe was formed billions of years ago and most stars formed before the Sun, “another civilization need only be older than ours to have technology that we are incapable of understanding.”
The astronomer also expressed his hope that the upcoming addition of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is more sensitive than the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii that discovered Oumuamua, may allow humanity to discover such objects more frequently and perhaps, “with advance warning”, even “send up a spaceship that could meet it, photograph it, and maybe even land on it.”
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