Another recent post by him was discussing that it might be emitting it's own light: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/does-3i-atlas-generate-its-own-l...
I feel like these are fun thought experiments.
I feel like these are fun thought experiments.
A few years ago when that interstellar object flew by he saw his chance to make a bunch of money selling books. Now he just makes wild claims with no evidence that the object was a light sail and contacts the media. He then tried to claim that SETI hasn't actually done anything and got told off by Jill Tatar...the literal inspiration for the movie Contact. Then he went off and dredged the bottom of the ocean and found some little spheres (extremely common) and started claiming they were from interstellar space and fudged the data.
What makes this complicated is that Avi was a pretty respected scientist with a huge number of papers. He knows how to do science properly and how the peer review process works, but doesn't care anymore now that he's getting attention and making money.
Check out
Angela Collier's video on YouTube: harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb
Professor Dave Explains video: Avi Loeb is a fraud now.