Avi Loeb

Yeah, but that was silly.

So the thing to keep in mind, they are getting data on things in the sky.

But if you don't have the right software now with AI, if you don't have high quality scientists the way that the Manhattan Project employed, you might not figure out things.

There is a reason why the Manhattan Project recruited the very best scientists.

So I say, put a billion dollars on this or more, bring in the best scientists in the world to figure it out.

I'm funded at the level of millions of dollars through the Galileo project.

The government can do a bit.

What is a billion dollars?

It's a drop in the bucket for the Pentagon.

But if, you know, you should think about the potential risk from drones that are used by adversarial nations.

And you want to have the very best sensors available.

using the very best AI algorithm.

You see, there is an approach which is to wait for the government to figure out things or to at least declassify them.

So a lot of people want the government to declassify.

I think it's just like waiting for Godot.

You can wait forever and it will never happen.

So I say, you know, we don't need the government to tell us what is up there in the sky because astronomy is all about that.

We can build observatories, look at the sky.

Anything that is human made is not of interest to me.

It's boring.