Avi Loeb: Methane Could Be a Biosignature

Harvard's Avi Loeb says James Webb found methane on an interstellar object exactly where it shouldn't be — and he's testing whether microbes could explain it.

In 2031, a Japanese spacecraft is set to land on a spinning object so reflective and sturdy it might actually be a lost Soviet probe.

Avi Loeb created the Loeb scale for ranking interstellar object anomalies.

We cover: why 3I/ATLAS's methane is harder to explain than the carbon dioxide found earlier, the microbe paper Avi is finishing this week, why he disagrees with a new "UFO" reanalysis of old Palomar sky survey plates, and why he just re-ranked Oumuamua now that we know more about "dark comets."

Timestamps
0:00 – The methane JWST shouldn't have found
0:27 – Could 3I/ATLAS be carrying microbes?
2:17 – The Palomar "UFO" reanalysis, debunked
5:25 – Re-ranking Oumuamua on the Loeb scale
5:35 – Why this "dark comet" might be Soviet
8:12 – Could aliens be watching, not interfering?

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcYtO3OmyP4

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