Interstellar visitor

[Kenzo1]

A paper defining the "Loeb Scale" can be found here .

I've not read the whole thing yet, but the first thing that strikes me is right up front - why is the lead investigator listed at the top of the paper (Omer Eldadi) from an Israeli school of PSYCHOLOGY? What does psychology have to do with astronomy... unless... there is a psychological operation in play?

I think I am uniquely qualified to express that reservation, as I went to university for physics with a concentration in astronomy, and at the same time my first wife was going to the same university to get her PhD in psychology. I am acutely aware of the vast differences between those two "sciences". I put that in quotes because I've never considered psychology to be a science. From what I know of it, which is more than is known by the average bear (from having assisted my first wife in her studies of it), it's more of an art. It's the Art of Manipulation, for the most part.

Things that make you go "hmmmm..."

ETA: I also found this to be of interest:

Corresponding Address:
Omer Eldadi
B.Ivcher School of Psychology
Reichman University
The University 8, Herzliya, Israel
Email: Omereldadi@gmail.com

What university professor uses Gmail for his professional correspondence? Most, if not all, universities have their own email addresses, and don't rely on extrernal emails like Gmail.


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Seems like Eldadi has 1 published paper about Extraterrestrial Intelligence Communication , other stuf he has done is sport related....which is pretty far from any UFO stuf . I dont see much reason for human psychology at this point, if any. 

He , Loeb and the third guy seems to allways do together things,  research papers. No outsiders...


Omer Eldadi

[Ninurta]

I read the paper on "The Loeb Scale" and had only a couple of further thoughts:

1) Loeb seems to place an inordinate stress on "non-gravitational acceleration", when it seems more likely that non-gravitational DECELERATION would be more cause for concern. They would have to decelerate to rendezvous with Earth either for an invasion or peaceful contact. Accelerating will just harmlessly fling them right out of the solar system, back into the black once again.

2) ALL 3 of the highest levels of the scale, which encompass confirmed technological origin, concern themselves mostly with the likelihood and magnitude of an Earth impact. Why would aliens travel for thousands of years in generational starships just to drive them into the Earth in a suicide mission? Even Heinlein's "Bugs" in Starship Troopers flung regular, run of the mill natural asteroids at Earth as weapons - they didn't send any technologically enhanced marvels. Why bother with that when simply chucking a rock would do?


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[Ninurta]

Seems like Eldadi has 1 published paper about Extraterrestrial Intelligence Communication , other stuf he has done is sport related....which is pretty far from any UFO stuf . I dont see much reason for human psychology at this point, if any. 

He , Loeb and the third guy seems to allways do together things,  research papers. No outsiders...


Omer Eldadi

Me either, unless they were just running a psychological operation on... humans. However, based upon his research papers, Eldadi seems to have no, or very little, expertise in that area, either.

Life is a mystery!

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