Avi Loeb
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
And by the way, it's not like a beautiful, it was not a beautiful tail the way you see around comets.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
So what the Webb telescope told us, from the data, it took a spectrum of the gas around it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
found that it's 150 kilograms per second that this object is losing in the side facing the sun.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
And out of that, 87% is carbon dioxide, CO2.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
And 9% is CO, carbon monoxide, which is really dangerous to humans.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
is water, 4% by mass is water, very small fraction.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
When the object was discovered, the experts said, oh, it's most likely made of water.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
That's what they said, made of water.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
And then several teams reported, we found water.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
One of them had very large error bars.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
The data was not of good quality.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2401 - Avi Loeb
And I said, that's not a clear detection.