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Podcast: VERITAS
Episode: Avi Loeb, Ph.D. | Do They Come in Peace? The 3I/ATLAS Mystery | Part 1 of 2
Description: Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Avi Loeb, Ph.D. Harvard astrophysicist and visionary thinker whose bold ideas have ignited debate and curiosity around the world. Known for challenging conventional wisdom and asking questions most scientists avoid, Dr. Loeb now turns his attention to an extraordinary visitor from deep space, the interstellar object 3I ATLAS, currently racing toward our solar system at sixty kilometers per second.
This Manhattan sized enigma is unlike anything we have ever seen. Arriving from the direction of the Milky Way’s center, it carries only a 0.005 percent chance of being a natural objec...