Avi Loeb

Yeah, there is a lot of misinformation.

You know, some people said I invented three-eye atlas, this object, in order to distract attention from the Epstein files.

Is that what people are saying?

Yeah, and I said, look, this object is the size of Manhattan Island.

It's at four and a half times the Earth-Sun separation.

If I was able to put it out there, you know, I would be more powerful than the Pope.

Right.

And because we're talking about a giant object that you can see from any place on Earth.

You know, you can buy online a telescope that will allow you half a meter in size that will allow you to see it.

It's out there.

It cannot be faked.

Well, those people are fools.

This is a very unusual object.

There is something really important to recognize here that usually when you deal with scientific matters,

They have very little impact on the future of humanity.

Very little.

If the neutrino has a little bit of a mass, it doesn't really matter.

When we discovered the Higgs boson, the biggest impact was to confirm some idea we had back in the 60s.

Obviously, that affected those people who got the Nobel Prize.

Most of us continued as if nothing happened.