[meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition

[Mark Hammergren]

Agreed on all points. This is worse than nonsense: Avi Loeb and his
tabloid-quality antics make a mockery of SETI and astrobiology. Public and
congressional ridicule of a "search for little green men" doomed the NASA
High Resolution Microwave Survey in the early 90's. It would have surveyed
the sky in millions of frequencies using the Arecibo radio telescope,
partially for SETI purposes, and was already funded and running after a
decade of development. I worked with people who were employed in that
project and who had the rug pulled out from under their feet with
essentially no warning. Some had to leave the field of astronomy to find
other employment. Serious SETI research did not recover from that disaster
for more than 20 years.
What will Loeb advocate "studying" next? Chemtrails? HAARP mind control?
Qanon? Disgusting.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 9:53 AM Rob Matson via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> I’m with you, Mike – what the hell?! This is the stuff of tabloids. If
> people want to find an underwater meteorite, they can search the shore of
> Lake Ontario for the (much larger than sand) fragments of asteroid 2022 WJ1
> that impacted there November last year, or the western edge of Lake
> Michigan for the bolide that broke up over it 6 years ago on Feb. 6th,
> 2017, appearing on 5 separate Doppler radars. In either case, the water is
> far, far shallower and the prospects better for success than finding
> anything (natural or artificial) over a mile underwater.  --Rob
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> *From: *Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list
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> *Sent: *Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:33 PM
> *To: *drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com>; Meteorite-list
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> *Subject: *Re: [meteorite-list] CNEOS1 2014-01-08 hunt in P.N.G.
> Harvardphysicist Avi Loeb is organizing a $1.5 million expedition
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>
>
> Good grief. What nonsense. A mile deep. In the pacific  ocean. Particles
> the size of rice. Years under the water…… what a scam
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> On Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8:04 AM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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> https://dnyuz.com/2023/03/23/a-harvard-physicist-is-racing-to-prove-this-meteorite-is-an-alien-probe/
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> A Harvard Physicist Is Racing to Prove This Meteorite Is an Alien Probe
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> March 23, 2023
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> The world’s top alien hunter is about to embark on his most ambitious—and
> potentially history-making—mission yet. Harvard physicist Avi Loeb is
> organizing a $1.5-million expedition to Papua New Guinea to search for
> fragments of a very strange meteorite that impacted just off the coast of
> the Pacific nation in 2014.
>
>
>
> There’s compelling evidence that the half-meter-wide meteorite, called
> CNEOS1 2014-01-08, traveled from outside our solar system. And that it’s
> made of extremely hard rock or metal—a material that’s hard and tough
> enough to prove the meteorite isn’t a meteorite at all. Maybe it’s an alien
> probe.
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> It’s a long-shot effort. After years of work, Loeb and his team have, with
> a big assist from the U.S. military, narrowed down CNEOS1 2014-01-08’s
> likely impact zone to a square kilometer of the ocean floor, nearly two
> kilometers underwater. But the fragments themselves are probably just a few
> millimeters in size. It’s worse than looking for a needle in a haystack.
> Loeb is basically preparing to look for big sand in a square-kilometer
> patch of small sand. ....more
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