Avi Loeb

So you've got your ship.

Do you know where to point it yet?

Because I think you just get one shot, right?

You got to get it right.

Or no, you can send a few of those.

But I think if you allow it to maneuver, you don't need to decide the beginning of the journey where to go.

It will be sort of like a survey similar to explorers over the centuries that found new lands.

Send a scout.

Yeah, not because they knew about those lands,

territories that you can call it the promised land uh you know it took the the jewish people after left the egypt the 40 years that's because they didn't have navigation system they didn't have gps right so instead of giving them the 10 commandments you know they would have been much better off having a gps system you know they did have an arc that helped

Yeah, the question is what was it, right?

But if I were to give them a gift, I mean, obviously there was a reason for the 40 years they spent in the desert, which was for the older generation that adored materialistic things, which if you look at our culture right now, this is pretty much where we are.

Yes, it is.

They wanted this desert generation to go away and it took 40 years.

So, you know, maybe we'll go through a similar transformation.

We need 40 years for the materialistic approach to fade away.

But I do think that if we send...

towards some promised land you know if we send spacecraft and we don't need to know that in advance we can just visit places and and then figure out where is the best place to go to and once we realize that we can send the self-replicating probes to all these places that share the same qualities and hope that you know just like in biology the dandelion

flower sends its seeds in the wind.

Some of them land on fertile ground, some not.