Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is leading the expedition and said the team had found a couple of bizarre objects.
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is currently searching for an unidentified flying object — or some sort of space entity — that has crashed near the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.
The search is part of the Galileo Project, which received $1.5 million in funding from Hoskinson in March.
The project is operating an expedition led by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj, who identified a “meteor of interstellar origin” that crashed into Earth from outer space in 2014.
Yes.
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) June 14, 2023
Notably, the object’s interstellar origin has been verified by the U.S. Department of Defence, and it appears that the Galileo team may have already found a couple of its remnants.
In a June 16 tweet, Hoskinson confirmed he is currently with the expedition team, and noted that so far they have found strange pieces of wire and fragments that could be from the crash.
“Plenty of ground to cover and we haven't even broken out the sluice sled yet,” he said.
Wire and some aluminum. Plenty of ground to cover and we haven't even broken out the sluice sled yet https://t.co/sHKzHe3CvB
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) June 16, 2023
In a blog post on the same day, Loeb wrote: “Gladly, we already have one anomaly: a manganese-platinum wire with an abundance pattern that differs from common commercial products.”
Howeve at this stage, it appears to be too early to confirm if the pieces belong to some sort of “interstellar object from our cosmic neighborhood” as Loeb hopes.
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“Most importantly, I wish to know whether it was manufactured technologically by another civilization,” he said in a blog post on June 15.
How long until he announces the aliens are bullish cardano https://t.co/xFtaa0qZ6a
— Vex (@VexTxs) June 16, 2023
This isn’t the first time Hoskinson has thrown capital behind a quirky project.
Back in March 2022, the Cardano founder participated in a $75 million funding round for Texas-based bioscience startup Colossal, which is aiming to resurrect wooly mammoths and other extinct species.
We invested in this venture https://t.co/sttOJ37O0j They have an amazing vision and also there is a ton that can be done to add blockchain technology to the field of de-extinction from crowd funding to IP management of genetics
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) March 9, 2022
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