Avi Loeb

So thinking about God as a parent that can attend to only one child is very limiting.

There may be lots of siblings in our family of intelligent civilizations.

It should just bring all.

So, you know...

the reason i regarded as an important argument is the copernican principle which is saying

We are not unique.

Under similar circumstances, if you start with a soup of chemicals on a planet, you will get something like us.

Right.

And therefore, there are billions of Earth-Sun analogs, other houses in our cosmic street.

They might have had, you know, many of them might have had residents like us.

Right.

We're more likely to not exist.

If you read the news every day, you realize that there is a lot of room for improvement.

As much as we are proud of our intelligence, we're screwing up the world.

And my point is, I can imagine a lot of much...

more accomplished students in our class of intelligent civilizations of course and therefore we should have respect for the search for them because we can learn from them they would serve better role models for us so I'm coming at it from a practical point of view I'm saying we are screwing up things just read the news

And, therefore, let's get inspiration not from what we hear about stories of things that happen on Earth and so forth, not by the limited data set that we have on Earth, but collect as much data as possible about our cosmic neighborhood

so that we can be inspired.

Well, I wrote a paper about that, and I said, yeah, we should attack this question along several fronts.

One of them, we have the Rubin Observatory in Chile that is monitoring the southern sky.