Avi Loeb

But another that I think is better is to force the median grade to be somewhere that is not a like B plus.

I grew up on the curve back in my day.

Yeah, exactly.

Last question, Avi.

Should we be changing what we're looking for when these interstellar objects come in?

Because apparently they're going to come in more frequently than we thought.

Should we be changing what we're looking for?

Definitely.

It may be a time-dependent question, because in particular, if the visits reflect what we are doing, if they are not far and they recognize, you know, it would have taken three-eye atlas just about 80 years to arrive at us from a distance that is 100 times the Earth-Sun separation, you know, the distance.

the Kuiper Belt, and it would have taken 8,000 years for it to traverse the entire solar system all the way out to the edge of the Oort Cloud.

The Oort Cloud goes that far out, huh?

100,000 times the Earth-Sun separation.

My goodness.

And it's mostly empty space, and we don't know what's out there.

The only reason we know it exists is because rocks, icebergs, every now and then are being sent into a trajectory, a path that comes close to the sun.

And these icebergs basically appear as comets.

These are long-period comets.

So we know that they come from far away and that they're very mildly bound, loosely bound to the sun.

But every now and then they dive in because of perturbations by Jupiter, for example.

Have you heard the theory that there's a planet X out there that could be throwing rocks this way?