E03 - The alien mystery of Oumuamua

Oumuamua was a visitor from outside the solar system. Some rock, astronomers first thought. But everything about it was weird: its shape, its speed, the way it reflected light, the fact that it accelerated away from the Sun, and much more. All this lead Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to propose that it might be a product of extraterrestrial technology. His colleague astronomer Seth Shostak knows a thing or two about looking forextraterrestrial life: he works at the SETI institute in Mountain View, CA, where the search for extraterrestrial life is their core business. So we asked Seth what he thinks about Avi's ideas. ==SHOW NOTES== Avi Loeb explains what's weird about Oumuamua https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/040 Wikipedia on Oumuamua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?Oumuamua The SETI Institute https://seti.org/ They looked for radio signals fom Oumuamua https://seti.org/press-release/radio-... Meanwhile, they found a strange radio source elsewhere https://seti.org/new-fast-radio-burst... Follow Seth Shostak on Twitter:   / sethshostak   Art gallery on the Moon https://moongallery.space/ First plant on the Moon is dead http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019... ==PATREON== Please consider supporting us through Patreon, a website designed to fund creators like us to make the content you love. Please sign up and support us   / spacecowboys   ==CREDITS== Space Cowboys is made by Tyse Roes (http://yeah-science.net/ ) and Herbert Blankesteijn ( http://blankesteijn.com/) in collaboration with BNR Nieuwsradio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.