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Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua | Lex Fridman Podcast #154
Lex Fridman interviews Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb about the interstellar object Oumuamua, aliens and black holes. Loeb lays out his argument that it may be an artifact rather than debris.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a good, non-sensational presentation of Loeb's actual argument, usually linked in Oumuamua threads.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lex Fridman
- Topic
- oumuamua and extraterrestrial life
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Lex Fridman had a really good interview with Avi Loeb about Oumuamua, among other things, about a week ago. Highly recommend! [VIDEO]
cronix on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Have we already been visited by aliens?There's a good interview with Avi Loeb on the Lex Fridman podcast about this very topic. His actual argument is fairly compelling and doesn't really sound sensational at all, IMO. [VIDEO]
erellsworth on Hacker News · 2021-06
In Oumuamua, alien artefact or interstellar debris?
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