The Hunt for the Interstellar Meteor: Avi Loeb on Location
4,444In this very special Event Horizon, John speaks with Avi Loeb aboard the Silver Star expeditionary vessel currently off the coast of Papua New Guinea in search of fragments of the first interstellar meteor ever detected, IM1. And they’ve already found at least one rather strange anomalous object in the search that may be related. So join us for a very special exclusive Saturday bonus edition of Event Horizon with Dr. Loeb aboard the expeditionary vessel itself.
The search for technosignatures has come to the forefront of both SETI through radio, but many other areas of astronomy and indeed has become a focus for NASA. But there has always been one area of the question that has not been well studied in science, the idea of a close technosignature. It is within the laws of physics for objects of alien origin to pass through or be stationed within the solar system, and even enter the earth’s atmosphere and its ocean.
My guest today has appeared with us on Event Horizon many times, indeed, he was the first ever guest on this show. But this time Avi Loeb is in a rather unique setting reporting to us on location regarding finding and retrieving fragments the first known interstellar meteor. And things are happening on that count, as part of the Greater Framework of the Galileo project.
Avi joins us today, on expedition, aboard the expeditionary vessel Silver Star currently located off the coast of Papua New Guinea. This was not meant so much as an interview, it would have been difficult for Dr. Loeb to hear me under the circumstances of standing on the deck of the ship, rather the Galileo Project is meant to be an open probe into close technosignatures, be they UAP or interstellar objects of unknown origin, so here is a tour of the expedition so far given by Dr. Loeb himself for the Event Horizon audience. I hope you enjoy.
If you would like to follow the daily progress, and discoveries, of the expedition as they happen, Avi is chronicling the voyage in near real time with multiple posts each day at his blog at https://avi-loeb.medium.com/ for fee, in the open, and with materials analyses they can do onboard the ship. Additionally, I’m check out the Galileo Project’s homepage at https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home. Things do not get more exciting than this, and stay tuned to Event Horizon for any new developments in the analyses of any recovered unusual materials.
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