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A large piece of art (in the lower two-thirds of the image), titled: “History Awaits,” shortly after it was delivered from the artist, Peter Tunney (Image credit: Loeb’s photo collection)

Ten minutes before recording my latest YouTube episode (to appear shortly here), a huge box bigger than my body — was delivered at my door. I was barely able to carry it in and open the box. Inside was an original piece of art from the brilliant artist, Peter Tunney, whose artistic practice draws from Pop art by mining imagery from newspapers, magazines, and books. Tunney is a force of nature with boundless creative energy, spreading his positive messages in unconventional ways. He creates in almost every medium: paint, collage, wood, photography, objects, and discarded materials. His new piece “History Awaits” will be featured behind me in my future video interviews.

A few hours after “History Awaits” was delivered, I submitted a new paper for publication, titled: “Is there life on 3I/ATLAS?”, accessible here. The concluding sentence of the paper states: “If the large dust particles shed by 3I/ATLAS carry microbes, this would constitute the first demonstration of interstellar panspermia. It would be of great interest for astrobiologists to test this possibility with future data on 3I/ATLAS.” In short, history awaits the verdict on whether we are alone!

On the same day, I received a note from the accomplished American writer Lance Mazmanian, who composed a poem titled “The Avi Loeb Interstellar” and posted it here. Lance is known for his work in film, television and literature, ranging from Hollywood productions to experimental poetry. He was once approached by Leonard Cohen to co-create a poetry chapbook together, a project that was unfortunately halted. Lance wrote to me:

“Dear Professor: Fabulous mind, fabulous wisdom. Such a shame there’s not more like you, everywhere in everything.

This morning it was requested I write a tiny thing about the black cold of space. Figured I’d throw your name on the title. See attached.

Again, so many thanks for showing none of the Milquetoast and fearful any slack.

Cheers.

L.
”

His poem reads as follows:

The Avi Loeb Interstellar

by Lance Mazmanian

Moving through solid bits of map
interstellar and wrapped with huge
distance from almost everything,
black dark space cold as maximum
easy to keep wandering through at
just a touch slower than herbs
of light
and it’s soon that a strange bit of rock
but really dark smoky color tube-thing of heavy metals and no windows at
all is seen off the port and covered in
reflection facets that sparkle far
exaggerated, perhaps for travel and whatnot
but the item is long and thin, size of an
ocean liner but wide as maybe a shop-mall coffee shoppe or
similar — your basic shiny hard spherocylinder with weird audio only felt
now and coming from hidden “Wow!” or even Gleam-X in nature
with zero why or when or
even content, context, direction
elements of an object beautifully designed by who knows who
and looks super-fancy simple smooth slightly spinning toward
heliosphere of the certain bodies very outward from
galaxy center plotted near where Avi Loeb super-professor
Homo sapiens got attention via time-punch in primitive video by
a few past mellow-mild light years and now the
spherocylinder from unknown trajectory draws to Loeb
and his people and who knows why it’s headed that way
and who really cares because on we go to chase superluminal matter tachyons
which yes is odd and gravitational waves
and maybe then a larger ship from yet another place
with a restaurant at least.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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(Image Credit: Chris Michel, National Academy of Sciences, 2023)

Avi Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project, founding director of Harvard University’s — Black Hole Initiative, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the former chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University (2011–2020). He is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies. He is the bestselling author of “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth” and a co-author of the textbook “Life in the Cosmos”, both published in 2021. The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb

https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCd
https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb

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