Avi Loeb

I don't care.

You know, I just want to see if there is anything that...

So my methodology should definitely be used by the Department of War to figure out risks of the nature that you mentioned.

And by the way, speaking about my colleagues, so there are people who said, oh, you're doing it to win the Nobel Prize.

Or you're trying to sell books.

You know, I don't charge a penny for my essays on medium.com.

Money is not at all what motivates me.

With respect to the Nobel Committee, you know, I have the same attitude as Jean-Paul Sartre had and Bob Dylan had.

If I find evidence for alien intelligence, alien technology, I would not waste my time in a tuxedo in Stockholm.

I will try to figure it out.

That's much more important than an award given by a human to a human.

We're dealing with something really consequential.

And for the scientific community to ignore that is irresponsible.

Why is it irresponsible?

Because it could affect the future of humanity.

I agree.

Landscape that we live in as I mentioned the beginning we live for a short time.

We're not at the center of the universe We arrived late To cosmic history, you know, we just arrived in the last few million years out of a 13.8 billion history billion years history You know, the cosmic play is not about us if you arrive late to the play at the end of the play You are not at the center of stage.

It's not about you okay, and our

So responsibility needs to be, you know, to find other actors that were around for much longer because they know what the play is about.