Avi Loeb

And within a day, they realized that it follows the path of the Tesla Roadster car that was launched by SpaceX.

So then they said, sorry, we take it out of the catalog.

It's not a rock, it's a car.

Our mistake, it's a car.

We know that it's a car because humanity launched it.

Now, just imagine a car like that coming into the solar system will appear as a point of light because it reflects sunlight.

And the same organization, the Minor Planet Center cataloging it, definitely will catalog it as a rock.

It's a strange rock.

It's a strange rock.

It's a car-shaped rock.

Yeah, because we were not involved in...

the launch of this interstellar car.

And it's obvious to anyone that looks at these instances that we can be easily misled by conventional thinking about interstellar objects.

It's one of my favorite metaphors that you use is about the people who study the zebra.

Yes.

How does that go?

Yeah, if they are experts on zebras and they see an elephant,

they would argue it's a zebra without stripes.

And the reason I bring this up is because Oumuamua was cataloged by comet experts.

Most recently, just over the past year, they say most likely Oumuamua is a comet...