{"id":1741602,"date":"2022-11-16T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741602"},"modified":"2022-11-16T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T00:18:18","slug":"ai-astronauts-harvard-professor-to-lead-expedition-to-locate-possible-alien-probe-off-of-remote-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ai-astronauts-harvard-professor-to-lead-expedition-to-locate-possible-alien-probe-off-of-remote-island\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI Astronauts\u2019: Harvard Professor To Lead Expedition To Locate Possible Alien Probe Off Of Remote Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fai-astronauts-harvard-professor-to-lead-expedition-to-locate-possible-alien-probe-off-of-remote-island%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741602&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard<\/a> astrophysicist is organizing an archeological expedition to the South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pacific-ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific<\/a> in search of a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alien<\/a> probe.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Abraham \u201cAvi\u201d Loeb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/ive-got-news-for-you\/podcast\/addc2b261d7ffa5efaf36d1dc52803c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Tuesday that he had received $1.5 million in funding to lead an expedition to Papua New Guinea (PNG), an island north of Australia, to scope the ocean floor for a 2014 meteor that crashed into the ocean which he suspects may be of alien origin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fundamental question is whether it was an unusual rock from another star, or was it a spacecraft,\u201d Loeb <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/16\/harvard-professor-avi-loeb-to-search-for-crashed-alien-technology\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> during an episode of the \u201cI\u2019ve Got News For You\u201d podcast. \u201cWe\u2019re planning an expedition to Papua New Guinea and scoop the ocean floor and figure out the composition of this object.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some believe that the object, which was officially identified as an interstellar meteor by the U.S. government, could be some kind of an alien probe. The object is said to be the first confirmed object known to have crashed into Earth from another solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Loeb\u2019s expedition to PNG, a former Australian colony, will head to the nation\u2019s Manus Island, where the object went down in the waters around the island. Manus Island was also the location for many years of an Australian detention center for migrants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-465165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea. It is covered in rugged tropical rain forest. Australian government has been relocating asylum seekers to the island between 2001-2004 and since 2012.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-1536x864-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-501828769-2048x1152-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-465165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manus Island: Credit: (c) HADI ZAHER via Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>The trip will take place in March or April 2023 as the researchers hope to find the object in order to better understand its composition. They will be using giant magnets to comb the Pacific floor where the meteor is believed to have crashed.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, another object, known as the \u200b\u200bOumuamua, or \u201cmessenger sent from the distant past,\u201d also exploded into flames near Portugal. At the time, it was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5vd4w\/alien-hunting-astronomer-says-there-may-be-a-second-interstellar-object-on-earth-in-new-study\">first known<\/a> interstellar object to pass through Earth \u2014 before speculation from Loeb and later confirmation from the government about the 2014 meteor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then with my student a couple of years later, we found that actually four years before Oumuamua there was a meteor that was discovered by the U.S. government, which moved really fast at 28 miles per second, disintegrated in the lower atmosphere of the Earth about 100 miles off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and it came from outside the solar system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Loeb, who is in charge of Harvard\u2019s UFO-research dedicated Galileo Program, added that the light curve of the meteor demonstrated that it was composed of something stronger than iron and most other space rocks studied by the government.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465172\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-465172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1093919982-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CAMBRIDGE, MA - JANUARY, 28: Avi Loeb, physicist at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA on January 29, 2019.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1093919982-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1093919982-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1093919982-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1093919982.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-465172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Adam Glanzman\/For The Washington Post via Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the fact that the nearest star to Earth is more than 25 trillion miles away and the fact it would take millions of years to reach the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, Loeb claims that any alien civilization would likely send a probe instead of attempting a journey itself due to the \u201chazardous conditions of space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call these AI astronauts and most likely we will see gadgets that are very intelligent; they might be well ahead of what we have,\u201d he said. \u201cIt might take us a while to figure out what they really are doing here and what they\u2019re seeking, but at the same time we can distinguish them from rocks, natural objects like meteors falling on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scientist added that he had promised to ensure that any \u201cgadget\u201d found at the bottom of the ocean would go to a museum, and not end up with the government. \u201cBecause it would represent modernity for us, even though it represents ancient history for the senders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about otherworldly beings crashing near PNG is not the first time the island has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2004-03-12\/png-hunts-giant-mystery-creature\/150454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shrouded<\/a> in mystery. In 2004, police scoured remote areas of the island with M-16s and machetes after locals reported a \u201cdinosaur\u201d sighting. The animal apparently had the tail of a crocodile and the head of a dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Harvard astrophysicist is organizing an archeological expedition to the South Pacific in search of a possible alien probe. 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