Spacethread Episode 2: Attack of the UFO Guys

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Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Avi Loeb causing an international incident

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a44349460/metallic-spherules-found-on-ocean-floor-are-they-from-aliens/

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According to the UK outlet The Times, the government of Papua New Guinea is accusing Loeb’s team of stealing the artifacts they have collected on their mission. The country’s National Research Agency claimed that the team never received a Marine Science Research permit (though they did apply for one), and that they entered the country on business visas instead of visas meant for scientific researchers. Stanis Hulahau, Papua New Guinea’s chief migration officer, even said that the team could face “criminal charges for removing ‘rare objects’ without notifying t
he state authorities.”

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As a result of this mission, pressure is now reportedly being put on the government of Papua New Guinea to abandon a security agreement recently made with the United States. According to The Times, member of parliament and Leader of the Opposition Joseph Lelang called the country to abandon the newly-signed Defense Co-operation Agreement if the US “fail to heed our call and protests”.

“What the US citizens were doing was illegal from the start, including stealing the artifacts from our shores,” Lelang said in a statement. “The ink has not yet dried and already the US citizens are disrespecting our people, our country and constitution .. We expect nothing less than the return of what was stolen from us and for those thieves to be held accountable.”

Amazing

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:40

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

DrSunshine posted:

Jesus that's just atrocious. Ugh. Avi Loeb is officially worse than NDGT.

On a scale of NDGT to Michio Kaku, where would you place him?

# ¿ Jul 16, 2023 04:29

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Mars is cold and thicc around the middle

https://www.space.com/mars-water-ice-equator-frozen-ocean

quote:

A European Space Agency (ESA) probe has found enough water to cover Mars in an ocean between 4.9 and 8.9 feet (1.5 and 2.7 meters) deep, buried in the form of dusty ice beneath the planet's equator.

The deposits are thick, extended 3.7km (2.3) miles underground, and topped by a crust of hardened ash and dry dust hundreds of meters thick. The ice is not a pure block but is heavily contaminated by dust. While its presence near the equator is a location more easily accessible to future crewed missions, being buried so deep means that accessing the water-ice would be difficult.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2024 16:45

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

I allow some fanciful theorizing channels on my YouTube, and one of them had a decent summary of the survey of infrared inconsistencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkEGvmfd8dI

So not exactly a groundbreaking finding, but absolutely worth further follow up with additional observations.

Finding a Dyson swarm within a few hundred light years is probably a bad thing overall though lol.

# ¿ May 13, 2024 20:38

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Cactus posted:

I like that channel because of his voice and I like sci-fi concepts and all that, but bear in mind that this is the same channel that had a sincere interview with someone about Skinwalker Ranch a little while ago, when deciding how much salt you're gonna need to take it with.

Edit: Event Horizon is the channel I'm on about but it's the same dude talking about the same stuff.

Yeah he's a science fiction author and self admitted futurist, so a heavy grain of salt should be applied to everything. As far as science communicators go he's fine.

# ¿ May 17, 2024 13:23

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