Don’t smh too hard. This is just Avi’s way of making astronomy interesting and fun.
We have Marvin the Martian cartoons for that.
I’ve my own deep imagination and cosmology/astrophysics might have been one of my alternate callings had things been different. The theoretical aspect - a complex word for what others refer to as ‘tin hat’ etc. which I apply heavily to yours truly - goes hand in hand with the unknown.
That stated, there are some things you don’t do as a professional...hence my ‘smh’.
To be clear: I’m not totally dismissive, merely astonished that he didn’t have someone point a radio telescope at the thing before going public with his, well...’musings’.
“Avi’s way of making astronomy interesting and fun.”
I think they dug through the tunnels underneath Harvard and found Timothy Leary’s old LSD stash.
Lol.