So we're going to take a new approach with our intro topics going forward, or at least for the
little bit, we're going to see how it works. We're going to split it up and we're going to do what
we're going to call fringy minis halfway through the week. And then once we get to Friday, you're
going to get the main episode, you're just going to dive right into it. So we're going to try this
out. Let us know what you think if you like it, if you don't, and we'll see how it goes.
Chelsea, I found a fun article to start this one off. I think it's the same professor that makes
all these claims, but it's always good when you see the university attached to it. So this is a
article from CBS News written by Mike Sullivan on July 7, 2023. The title Harvard professor,
Avi Loeb, believes he's found fragments of alien technology. Oh, so let's see what he actually
has here. I think this is the guy who claimed that oh, when it came through that asteroid that went
through our solar system, he said it was likely alien technology. So I'm pretty sure he's just a
tenured professor who likes to make UFO claims. I admire that actually. All you got to do is get
tenured and you can do whatever you want. So let's go. Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may
have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the water of Papua New Guinea
in 2014. Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The US
Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty 99.999% of the material came from another solar
system. The government gave Loeb a 10 kilometer radius of where it may have landed. Well, that is
where the fireball took place and the government detected it from the Department of Defense.
It's a very big area the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down. End quote, said Loeb.
I shouldn't say end quote when it just goes on. Continue quotes. We figure the distance of the
fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast waves, the boom of explosion,
and the light that arrived quickly. I hate what the only reason they break up is to say said this
guy. Why do they do that? Quote continues. Quote continues. No, big quote is not. Oh no.
Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. Those calculations
happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 kilometer range that came from the
US government. Loeb and his group took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area and the
ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor's projected path. Researchers combed the
ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat. Quote, we found 10 spirals. These are
almost perfect spears or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope,
they look very distinct from the background. Explain Loeb. Quote, damn it. I'm just going to
skip that part. They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature
of the earth. End quote. The analysis of the composition show that the spirals are made of
84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium plus trace elements. They are sub
millimeter in size and the crew found 50 of them in total. Quote, it has material strength that is
tougher than all space rocks that were seen before and cataloged by NASA. It does end quote there,
but I'm just going to push through. We calculated its speed outside of the solar system. It was 60
kilometers per second faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was
made of the material tougher than even iron meteorites and moving faster than 95% of all stars
in the vicinity of the sun suggests potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization
or some technological gadget. End quote. He likens the situation to any of the voyager spacecraft
launched by NASA. Quote, they will exit the solar system in 10,000 years. Just imagine them pliding
with another planet far away a billion years from now. They would appear as a meteor of a composition
moving faster than usual. Explain the lobe. The research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard.
Lobe is trying to understand if the cereals are artificial or natural. If they are natural,
it will give the researchers insight into what materials may exist outside of our solar system.
If it is artificial, the questions really begin. Quote, it will take us tens of thousands of years
to exit our solar system with our current spacecrafts to another star. This material
spent that time arriving to us, but it's already here. We just need to check our backyard to see
if we have packages from an interstellar Amazon that takes billions of years for the travel.
End quote. Guy thinks he's funny too, hey? You can do whatever he wants. He still has more
debris to research and hours of unwatched footage from the cameras attached to their sled. He believes
that there is a chance the cereals could be small breadcrumbs to a bigger find. Quote,
they also help us pinpoint any big piece of meteor we could find in a future expedition. We hope to
find a big piece of the object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or
technological gadget. That's the end of the article. Chelsea, what do you think? I think it has potential.
Yeah, and it is interesting to kind of see it. Basically, I like the way he explained it,
like our Voyager space probe has been out there for 40 years now, 50 years now, and it'll be dead
by the time it hits anything. Yeah. And if it did hit something, it wouldn't really resemble the state
it was in when it was launched. So it would look very crude, but there would be signs of like,
I guess, intelligent design behind it is a weird way to put it. But yeah, there's, you got to look
at it. No, I think that's a perfect way to put it. And like, universe has been around a lot
longer than we have. So it would make sense if another civilization got to our level and did
a space probe like that, it would eventually crash somewhere. Yeah. Or, you know, because we thought
there might be life here, they saw the dinosaurs, we're like, let's go get the dinosaurs. They
launched it. Well, are they going to be disappointed unless it landed in like an alligator bond?
Or near the chickens, because I believe that's actually where chickens originate is in that
area too. Maybe a little further in, but chickens are like jungle fowl. Or in Africa. I love that.
I think it's super exciting. But I feel like I'm always let down in stories like this. So
this guy doesn't let down. He's tenured. He don't give a shit. Yeah. If we never hear this again,
I'm going to assume it was some sort of intelligent design. If not, I guess we're going to hear that
it was just meter. It's either we'll hear about it again, or it will be too boring to actually
follow up on. But I don't think this is the last time we hear from Abby. Yeah, for sure not. But
I feel like if we don't hear about it, it probably was intelligent design. Covered up. Yeah, exactly.
Chelsea, anything else you want to add to this? I haven't seen anything like that on my travels
recently that I can comment on really. So I think that's it. Okay, that does it, I guess,
for this part of the week. Stay tuned for later in the week when you get the full episode.