Interview · S7581
Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb
Loeb recalls Yuri Milner asking him to assess a nearest-star mission in May2015. This adds dates and setting to the same private-funder account in AfterOn40, without independent corroboration. Natural alternatives and uncertain artificial origin remain explicit. No government or classified-programme invitation is stated.
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- P067–068: Loeb recalls Milner’s May2015 visit to his Harvard office, six months of evaluation and the April2016 public announcement. It is a claimed private research contact. Original invitations, emails, contracts, funding records and announcement materials are absent.
- This overlaps the same Loeb/Milner/Starshot witness family in AfterOn40. Added detail, repeated quotations and host remarks do not supply independent corroboration. No achieved interstellar flight, alien encounter or classified access follows.
- Loeb acknowledges familiarity influencing his hypothesis, discusses natural alternatives and does not affirm100% artificial certainty. Raw observations, competing model originals and calibration were not newly reviewed.
- The quadrillion-objects wording refers to objects within the solar system; the prior interview discusses per-star ejection. These contexts are not silently harmonized. Rubin forecasts from2021 remain forecasts here, with no later operational or detection verification.
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Avi Loeb, Paul Rand. Taking Aliens Seriously, with Avi Loeb. May 6, 2021. BioParity S7581. https://bioparity.io/sources/S7581Record data (JSON)