3I/ATLAS

[Hriston]

I heard Loeb has been getting hate mail and stuff over his ideas. How awful, the guy is just an excited and curious man who has made many young people get interested in science.

I hadn't heard of Prof. Loeb before the publicity around 3I/ATLAS, but my impression is he has made the search for extraterrestrial technology a focus of his career and that he is using the appearance of 3I/ATLAS and 1I/'Oumuamua as an opportunity to make a case publicly that this type of research is relevant and important. He is certainly generating lots of interest!

 

[môrgondír]

there is more unexplained phenomena going on in your own colon than in all the UFO pictures and video ever taken.

There are plenty of things about myself I don't know. It's lovely to discover more as I move through time, having new experiences.

Whether or not a new discovery in my colon, for example, has value - it might. If I have colon cancer, for example. I don't know if that's really valuable to me, or if it's just new information - it's probably valuable to the doctors and institutions - the medical infrastructure if you will - that would assign a dollar value to the treatment of it in order to extend my life further.

I daresay that knowledge of all the aliens in the entire universe traveling around the stars wouldn't bring me much solace laying in a hospital bed under those conditions.

 

[Ryujin]

Discovering a new species of frog in the Amazon: Interesting.

Discovering extra-terrestrial life: transformative.

 

[Reynard]

What are you talking about? He addresses why in the first minute of the linked video.

I did not go back and rewatch, because I assumed it was a statement of fact. I know he discussed it in earlier videos, too, so I was helping.

 

[Morrus]

There are plenty of things about myself I don't know. It's lovely to discover more as I move through time, having new experiences.

Whether or not a new discovery in my colon, for example, has value - it might. If I have colon cancer, for example. I don't know if that's really valuable to me, or if it's just new information - it's probably valuable to the doctors and institutions - the medical infrastructure if you will - that would assign a dollar value to the treatment of it in order to extend my life further.

I daresay that knowledge of all the aliens in the entire universe traveling around the stars wouldn't bring me much solace laying in a hospital bed under those conditions.

Fine. You’re not interested in space exploration. So what?

Maybe find a thread about a subject you are interested in.

 

[môrgondír]

Fine. You’re not interested in space exploration. So what?

Maybe find a thread about a subject you are interested in.

Where'd you get that idea? I'm asking questions. I'm in other threads.

Are you looking into my consciousness again to see what I'm really interested in?

 

[Umbran]

Where'd you get that idea? I'm asking questions. I'm in other threads.

Are you looking into my consciousness again to see what I'm really interested in?

No, but, "I'm just asking questions," is a key phrase of the sealion.

 

[Umbran]

I daresay that knowledge of all the aliens in the entire universe traveling around the stars wouldn't bring me much solace laying in a hospital bed under those conditions.

Yes, but unless it just happens to be a very special frog, it probably isn't crawling up there to cure your cancer, either.

But actually, the way science spins off knowledge, information on those aliens is likely to help in human medicine - they imply new materials, new physics to be used in diagnostic machines and computers, greater understanding of biology, all of which can then be turned around to influence your life.

But, by all means, you get to like the frog all you want. Nobody's questioning that. Have fun with the amphibian of your choice!

 

[Morrus]

Are you looking into my consciousness again to see what I'm really interested in?

Your sarcasm is very clever, but no, I’m simply reading your words.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes, but unless it just happens to be a very special frog, it probably isn't crawling up there to cure your cancer, either.

But actually, the way science spins off knowledge, information on those aliens is likely to help in human medicine - they imply new materials, new physics to be used in diagnostic machines and computers, greater understanding of biology, all of which can then be turned around to influence your life.

But, by all means, you get to like the frog all you want. Nobody's questioning that. Have fun with the amphibian of your choice!

And us just going to space had a huge effect on science, medicine, and even food. Seeing how others do it would be, as I said, transformative.