I Really Enjoy the unfolding of this article and the information mined. At first I thought it was just going to be another such-and-such discovery article. It expands beyond and then comes Full Circle well. From the intriguing zoological perspective of Arik Kershenbaum (which again brings to mind the Modern Classic Where The Crawdads Sing; I cannot get enough of that Glorious Read) to the Los Alamos connections; well rounded.

A few Illuminations:

1. Right when I was defending Loeb in my mind with cases like Galileo or Hypatia (See Agora with Rachel Weiss) Loeb goes there:

Loeb has now dispensed with the scientific notation and written “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). In it, he recounts the oft-told story of how Galileo was charged with heresy for asserting that Earth circled the sun. At his trial in Rome, in 1633, Galileo recanted and then, legend has it, muttered, sotto voce, “Eppur si muove” (“And yet it moves”). Loeb acknowledges that the quote is probably apocryphal; still, he maintains, it’s relevant. The astronomical establishment may wish to silence him, but it can’t explain why ‘Oumuamua strayed from the expected path. “And yet it deviated,” he observes.

2. I, rather foolishly/naively, like to Imagine Us tiny humans reacting to First Contact via Arrival or the ending of Midnight Special.

3. Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project (as blueprints) for the Future (See/Read: The Best that Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War Book)