Avi Loeb

We're trying to avoid city lights by going to these mountains, and then we have city lights in the sky.

But other than that, it's less atmosphere, so it's good to be high up.

And in addition, it's not very turbulent.

The weather is very good there.

So there is the Atacama Desert, and there are many astronomical observatories there.

And the other place where you have a lot of state-of-the-art facilities is...

Hawaii, the issue there is that there are severe political limitations because of the indigenous people there that are assigning religious sentiment to the mountains.

So they cannot build more telescopes there.

So Chile, I mean, the government in Chile is encouraging science and we are getting a lot of useful data from Chile.

I think also the president of the United States should be aware of that.

I haven't talked to him, but I spoke with others.

Congresswoman Ana Paulina Luna, Congressman Tim Bouchette.

Are they all aware of your... Well, in fact, Luna, Representative Luna, she called me on the phone a couple of months ago and asked me for an update on 3i Atlas, and I promised to send her routine updates.

I have essays that I write every day or two about the latest updates.

And she's very interested.

And I, you know, I did communicate with people around the White House.

But I think the president should be aware of that.

Of course, most likely most objects would be.

Just rocks, you know?

By the way, this is the material that I brought back from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in these tubes.