Avi Loeb

they will disappear.

The only monuments that will stay around are anything we sent to space, especially to interstellar space.

And that's the only way for us to be remembered in the history books of the Milky Way galaxy.

And so if another civilization realized that,

That's what they will do.

They will embark on an interstellar trip or send probes or instruments that will carry their legacy to interstellar space.

I think we should search for such objects because it will encourage us.

It will give us a tip.

It will encourage us to imitate them.

It will give us a role model of how we can do better and

You know, it's an extension of the Darwinian principle of the fittest survives.

You know, if you think about long term, the fittest means that you leave your home planet and you survive in space on a space platform.

Star Trek.

Yeah.

Well, Star Trek is limited to the imagination of Hollywood scriptwriters.

I can imagine things.

In fact, I think nature is probably far more imaginative than we are.

So I look forward to finding such objects because my belief is that they would be something we've never imagined.

Well, so the only planet that we can go to is obviously Mars, but it doesn't have much of an atmosphere and it's impossible to survive on the surface of Mars for more than a few years.

You know, the human body would be bombarded by energetic particles, cosmic rays.