Avi Loeb

We need a copy of it in the northern sky, so we have a full alert system that would notify us of interstellar objects coming in.

we need interceptors, a spacecraft that when we detect with those two observatories, we detect an object that comes from outside the solar system, then we can maneuver a spacecraft so that it will meet it along its path.

And in fact, the Juno spacecraft near Jupiter

was almost capable of doing that.

So I realized that, wrote a paper about it, told the representative Luna about it, and she wrote a very gracious letter, visionary letter, to the interim administrator of NASA, Sean Duffy, encouraging NASA to try and use Juno to observe and get close to 3I Atlas.

If Juno had all the initial fuel that it originally had,

It could have collided with 3i Atlas, but it used most of it.

And I spoke with the principal investigator of Juno, and he promised me that they will also use their radio antenna to look at 3i Atlas in the radio just to see if there's any transmission.

Please go ahead.

Yeah.

So interceptors.

In answer to your question, potential fleet of interceptors, things that can come really close and take a close-up photograph because a picture is worth a thousand words.

I don't need to speak.

If I showed you a picture of something that looks technological, three-eye atlas has bolts on its surface and buttons that you can press, you will not argue with me that it's a comet.

We need things, cameras that come close to the object, potentially even land on it, bring materials back to Earth, okay?

And, of course, the ability to detect it, to detect such objects at large distances, that investment is at the level of billions of dollars, okay?

To do that in space.

My argument is once the first encounter is verified, we will have a trillion dollars per year for that because we invest $2.4 trillion in military budgets.

And when we know that there is alien technology that is putting Earth at risk, then we should allocate a significant fraction of our military budgets

to have a system that protects the Earth.