Avi Loeb

This will be debated.

It will not be a clear-cut situation.

Whereas if we find an object, an interstellar object with buttons on it,

It's clear that it's technological if we have an image of it.

So let's invest similar amounts of money in both searches and let nature decide what is easier to find, rather than us saying, well, it's an extraordinary claim to imagine something as sophisticated as we are.

I think that is a mistake.

And I hope that Elon Musk will find it exciting enough to support it.

If he's interested, I'll be delighted to discuss it with him.

Well, if you believe in the most conventional scientific scenario, we came out of a soup of chemicals on the early Earth.

Evolution, right?

So that means, imagine being a chef where you...

Obviously, if you start from similar ingredients, you have a chance of ending up with the same product if you just follow the same path.

If there are 10 billion Earth-Sun analogs in the Milky Way galaxy alone, which is the current estimate,

you know, the chance is high that conditions were similar to those on Earth, and at least a large number of them, you know, and therefore things like we have here on Earth came about elsewhere, and it's...

It's unlikely that we are really the pinnacles of creation.

And if you just read the news every day, it's clear that we are not that intelligent.

Look at how many mistakes we make.

We invest a lot in fighting each other and wasting resources rather than working together.

Oh, yeah.

So, in fact, I'm leading the Galileo project.