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So we're going to take a new approach with our intro topics going forward, or at least for the

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little bit, we're going to see how it works. We're going to split it up and we're going to do what

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we're going to call fringy minis halfway through the week. And then once we get to Friday, you're

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going to get the main episode, you're just going to dive right into it. So we're going to try this

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out. Let us know what you think if you like it, if you don't, and we'll see how it goes.

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Chelsea, I found a fun article to start this one off. I think it's the same professor that makes

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all these claims, but it's always good when you see the university attached to it. So this is a

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article from CBS News written by Mike Sullivan on July 7, 2023. The title Harvard professor,

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Avi Loeb, believes he's found fragments of alien technology. Oh, so let's see what he actually

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has here. I think this is the guy who claimed that oh, when it came through that asteroid that went

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through our solar system, he said it was likely alien technology. So I'm pretty sure he's just a

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tenured professor who likes to make UFO claims. I admire that actually. All you got to do is get

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tenured and you can do whatever you want. So let's go. Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may

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have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the water of Papua New Guinea

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in 2014. Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The US

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Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty 99.999% of the material came from another solar

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system. The government gave Loeb a 10 kilometer radius of where it may have landed. Well, that is

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where the fireball took place and the government detected it from the Department of Defense.

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It's a very big area the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down. End quote, said Loeb.

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I shouldn't say end quote when it just goes on. Continue quotes. We figure the distance of the

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fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast waves, the boom of explosion,

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and the light that arrived quickly. I hate what the only reason they break up is to say said this

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guy. Why do they do that? Quote continues. Quote continues. No, big quote is not. Oh no.

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Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. Those calculations

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happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 kilometer range that came from the

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US government. Loeb and his group took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area and the

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ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor's projected path. Researchers combed the

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ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat. Quote, we found 10 spirals. These are

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almost perfect spears or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope,

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they look very distinct from the background. Explain Loeb. Quote, damn it. I'm just going to

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skip that part. They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature

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of the earth. End quote. The analysis of the composition show that the spirals are made of

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84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium plus trace elements. They are sub

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millimeter in size and the crew found 50 of them in total. Quote, it has material strength that is

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tougher than all space rocks that were seen before and cataloged by NASA. It does end quote there,

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but I'm just going to push through. We calculated its speed outside of the solar system. It was 60

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kilometers per second faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was

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made of the material tougher than even iron meteorites and moving faster than 95% of all stars

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in the vicinity of the sun suggests potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization

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or some technological gadget. End quote. He likens the situation to any of the voyager spacecraft

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launched by NASA. Quote, they will exit the solar system in 10,000 years. Just imagine them pliding

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with another planet far away a billion years from now. They would appear as a meteor of a composition

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moving faster than usual. Explain the lobe. The research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard.

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Lobe is trying to understand if the cereals are artificial or natural. If they are natural,

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it will give the researchers insight into what materials may exist outside of our solar system.

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If it is artificial, the questions really begin. Quote, it will take us tens of thousands of years

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to exit our solar system with our current spacecrafts to another star. This material

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spent that time arriving to us, but it's already here. We just need to check our backyard to see

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if we have packages from an interstellar Amazon that takes billions of years for the travel.

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End quote. Guy thinks he's funny too, hey? You can do whatever he wants. He still has more

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debris to research and hours of unwatched footage from the cameras attached to their sled. He believes

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that there is a chance the cereals could be small breadcrumbs to a bigger find. Quote,

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they also help us pinpoint any big piece of meteor we could find in a future expedition. We hope to

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find a big piece of the object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or

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technological gadget. That's the end of the article. Chelsea, what do you think? I think it has potential.

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Yeah, and it is interesting to kind of see it. Basically, I like the way he explained it,

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like our Voyager space probe has been out there for 40 years now, 50 years now, and it'll be dead

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by the time it hits anything. Yeah. And if it did hit something, it wouldn't really resemble the state

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it was in when it was launched. So it would look very crude, but there would be signs of like,

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I guess, intelligent design behind it is a weird way to put it. But yeah, there's, you got to look

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at it. No, I think that's a perfect way to put it. And like, universe has been around a lot

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longer than we have. So it would make sense if another civilization got to our level and did

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a space probe like that, it would eventually crash somewhere. Yeah. Or, you know, because we thought

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there might be life here, they saw the dinosaurs, we're like, let's go get the dinosaurs. They

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launched it. Well, are they going to be disappointed unless it landed in like an alligator bond?

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Or near the chickens, because I believe that's actually where chickens originate is in that

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area too. Maybe a little further in, but chickens are like jungle fowl. Or in Africa. I love that.

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I think it's super exciting. But I feel like I'm always let down in stories like this. So

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this guy doesn't let down. He's tenured. He don't give a shit. Yeah. If we never hear this again,

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I'm going to assume it was some sort of intelligent design. If not, I guess we're going to hear that

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it was just meter. It's either we'll hear about it again, or it will be too boring to actually

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follow up on. But I don't think this is the last time we hear from Abby. Yeah, for sure not. But

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I feel like if we don't hear about it, it probably was intelligent design. Covered up. Yeah, exactly.

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Chelsea, anything else you want to add to this? I haven't seen anything like that on my travels

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recently that I can comment on really. So I think that's it. Okay, that does it, I guess,

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for this part of the week. Stay tuned for later in the week when you get the full episode.