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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up? by irrational on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:05PM (#26857824)
>It would be most appropriate to allocate taxpayer funds to the search for our cosmic neighbors

I think this is the main focus of this opinion piece. I don't know who the author is, but I wouldn't be surprised that he would be someone writing grant proposals to get a piece of these funds.

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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up? by gus_massa on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:15PM (#26857891)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb

Aka the guy that proposed that the ʻOumuamua is a solar sail.

(IIRC he is a good astrophysicist, but he is pushing the idea of the alien solar sail too hard.)

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Re:What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up? by airza on Sunday April 18, 2021 @08:14PM (#26857880)
He is the guy who has been harping on ʻOumuamua being a UFO for the last few years.
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