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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It a Human Created Noise?

The same observatory, the park's observatory, detected a couple of years ago, some signal. And then they realized that it comes back at lunch lunchtime. The reason I think it's human made without getting to the technical details is because of this very short window by which we were transmitting radio signals out of the lifetime of the earth. You know, as he said, 100 years out of four and a half billion years that the earth existed. So what's the chance that another civilization, a twin civilization of ours, is transmitting radio signals exactly the time that we are looking with our radio telescopes?

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