Holy crap. This is poetry. I have seen a sarcastic debunkening this melodious in quite some time.
I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management.
Teasing the public with fraudulent or self-deluded promises of aliens used to mean something. It took work. It meant slapping together…
I grew up in the '70s. This is basically how I see nearly all pseudoscience from the past few decades. I mean, if you're going to believe stuff that's completely contrary to all available evidence, it should it least be fun and imaginative, right?
Awesome article. Here's something in video form, including a lot of stuff from the article's author Desch
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
The spaceship would be “very dirty and in need of a wash.”
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Damn, that's funny.
"used to mean something in this town" energy.
#Pulitzer
They just don't make them like Hoaxland anymore. Tsk. Tsk.
Avi Loeb ALWAYS thinks it is aliens.
I haven't seen a hilarious demolition like this since Lindy West's scorching review of Sex & the City 2 ... and that was 15 years ago!
I loved the "... making 'Harvard astronomer' the scientific equivalent of 'Florida man'" What a burn!
I'm going to take your word for it because my eyes crossed a few paragraphs in and I had to lay down
I am so very, very confused by Avi Loeb's career. I was reading about it the other day and there's this inflection point where I was like, "Wait, what?!"
Feels like the old internet (complimentary)
