Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
Just finished reading "Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars" by Avi Loeb, published by Mariner.
Avi Loeb is a believer.
Make no mistake about it. And like all good and firm believers of faith and/or an idea, Loeb absolutely needs not evidence at all to support his claims that discovering the existence of advanced extraterrestrial life will finally grant humanity the secrets of immortality because these kind, benevolent, and and let's not forget super advanced aliens will share their life extension technology with us - if only we believe in them.
Loeb is not advancing any bold new ideas here. He's parroting decades old beliefs that once humanity discovers the existence of advanced star faring aliens, than all the problems plaguing the world will be resolved in a bizarre mixture of faith the combines pseudo-science and pseudo-faith.
Oumuamua is Loeb's obsession. He's convinced like all believers of questionable cults - in this case the Cult of Seti-Ism - that humanity is suffering because of it's unwillingness to embrace the truth of Oumuamua - that it was - and he never offers any proof - alien technology and we're blinded to the truth by our unwillingness to believe and keep an open mind.
Loeb should follow his own advice. While he does provide some details as to how the first interstellar meteorites were determined to have struck Earth and his planned expedition to recover the material, Loeb has already decided anything he finds will be evidence of advanced technology. So much for the scientific method of following where the facts lead.
Loeb is definitely blinded by the light of his own beliefs that he truly can not see that he is undermining his own quest for enlightenment.
Not Recommended.
One Star.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006325087X?...
Avi Loeb is a believer.
Make no mistake about it. And like all good and firm believers of faith and/or an idea, Loeb absolutely needs not evidence at all to support his claims that discovering the existence of advanced extraterrestrial life will finally grant humanity the secrets of immortality because these kind, benevolent, and and let's not forget super advanced aliens will share their life extension technology with us - if only we believe in them.
Loeb is not advancing any bold new ideas here. He's parroting decades old beliefs that once humanity discovers the existence of advanced star faring aliens, than all the problems plaguing the world will be resolved in a bizarre mixture of faith the combines pseudo-science and pseudo-faith.
Oumuamua is Loeb's obsession. He's convinced like all believers of questionable cults - in this case the Cult of Seti-Ism - that humanity is suffering because of it's unwillingness to embrace the truth of Oumuamua - that it was - and he never offers any proof - alien technology and we're blinded to the truth by our unwillingness to believe and keep an open mind.
Loeb should follow his own advice. While he does provide some details as to how the first interstellar meteorites were determined to have struck Earth and his planned expedition to recover the material, Loeb has already decided anything he finds will be evidence of advanced technology. So much for the scientific method of following where the facts lead.
Loeb is definitely blinded by the light of his own beliefs that he truly can not see that he is undermining his own quest for enlightenment.
Not Recommended.
One Star.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006325087X?...
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