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He has an interview with Lex Fridman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but he seems to think that aliens visiting our solar system is likely enough that it makes sense to look for. He falls short of the confident certainty I usually expect from cranks though, he's talking about investigating possibilities. I think he's eccentric, but I wouldn't call him a crank.

There's a good interview with Avi Loeb on the Lex Fridman podcast about this very topic. His actual argument is fairly compelling and doesn't really sound sensational at all, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU

The author of this article has been on several podcasts including Lex Fridman's, where he has discussed these issues further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU .

Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU

⬐ dfsegoat

Having watched the vid, he goes into specifics of why he thinks Oumuamua is 'not a rock' based on geometry and reflectivity. It was quite fascinating.

⬐ strogonoff

I was a bit worried when interviewer ventured into the topic of UFO sightings; thankfully Avi’s response was quite sober.

⬐ TacoToni

Fantastic episode.

⬐ libertine

Very interesting, and it gives a really good highlight of the whole Oumuamua event, which got a bit distorted in the media.

The things that stood out were:

- Our range of vision to spot such objects is narrow;

- We don't have much "resolution" of the object, and we have to work with limited data;

- that fact that we managed to get that data was already really good and it's enough to theorize about a lot of stuff, but not enough to tell precisely what it was.

- the object behavior as it approached the sun doesn't match the type of object that we perceived at the beginning;

- the object could have been stationary;