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He goes on podcasts quite frequently and talks about all of this stuff - he's one of the most frequent guests on Event Horizon where this is his bread and butter sort of conversation.

If he doesn't believe this sort of thing, well, he certainly had me fooled after having spent hours listening to him talk about it all.

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I've listened to Avi Loeb on Mindscald and he was quite clear that he's taking the possibility seriously as any scientist should take any possibility seriously. He did strike me as a crackpot, but just as somebody who thought that this field has been stigmatized and ridiculed for a long time and somebody has to have the courage to remove the stigma and take this field back in the hands of real science.

I only listened to that one podcast and it was at the time of oumuanua I don't know if in the meantime he veered completely on the crackpot side.

> I only listened to that one podcast and it was at the time of oumuanua I don't know if in the meantime he veered completely on the crackpot side.

I don't know that he is a crackpot. However, he's been seeking out money for his research effort to identify alien objects. Which is why I offered up my non-crank option, that tossing a bit of alien dust on things helps him get funding.

any research needs funding

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/preliminary-anomalies-of-3i-atla...

> The simplest hypothesis is that 3I/ATLAS is a comet and we are missing the spectral features of its gaseous coma because of its large distance from Earth. However, in case future data .....

I can't find the post unfortunately.

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