Avi Loeb

Well, if they want to entertain the possibility that it might be a black swan event.

They want to have an analysis of all the data available to figure it out.

And they don't want the public to know about it just in order not to create any panic unnecessarily.

So that makes a lot of sense.

And I suggested back in July that actually we should establish a scale, a classification scale of interstellar objects where zero means a natural object, 10 means a possible technological threat.

And we should just rank on this scale, which is called the Loeb scale.

We should rank every interstellar object in the future.

I like that.

Well, there was a government shutdown, which was the reason that they said they could not process the photographs.

And then they had a press conference where the images they showed were very fuzzy.

So I didn't really understand why they would hold such a press conference.

A month later, the Hubble Space Telescope got much better images, so they should have had the press conference with the Hubble images.

But anyway, NASA is obviously a bureaucratic organization.

The press conference was held by officials.

It was not held by the scientists who analyzed the data.

That's where I would expect content to come out.

Yeah, I mean, I think the fundamental question is whether Elon Musk is the most accomplished space entrepreneur since the Big Bang.

And he might want to know the answer for that because if the answer is yes, he will get a big boost to his ego.

My personal assessment is that there are 100 billion stars like the sun.

Most of them formed billions of years before the sun.