All this lead Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to propose that it might be a product of extraterrestrial technology. His colleague astronomer Seth Shostak knows a thing or two about looking forextraterrestrial life: he works at the SETI institute in Mountain View, CA, where the search for extraterrestrial life is their core business. So we asked Seth what he thinks about Avi's ideas and he tells us in this podcast.
==SHOW NOTES== Avi Loeb explains what's weird about Oumuamua
Wikipedia on Oumuamua
The SETI Institute
They looked for radio signals fom Oumuamua
Meanwhile, they found a strange radio source elsewhere
Seth Shostak on Wikipedia, his own site and twitter
First plant on the Moon is dead - tells us Xinhuanet and CNET.com
Art gallery on the Moon

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