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Aliens, Book Organizing Tricks and Other Letters to the Editor
An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua. Central to Avi Loeb’s argument is what he calls the “Oumuamua wager,” a takeoff on Pascal’s famous wager, that the upside of believing in God far outweighs the downside. Likewise, believing that Oumuamua could have been an alien spacecraft can only make us more alert and receptive to thinking outside the box.Credit.M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory
Feb. 26, 2021
To the Editor:
Dennis Overbye’s review of Avi Loeb’s “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” (Feb. 7), which identifies the celestial apparition Oumuamua as evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth, is poignant and evocative of other quests (since the Tower of Babel) to communicate with the cosmos and its forces.