Avi Loeb

And what you tell a lonely person is, don't be so presumptuous.

You are not that attractive.

They will not come to Los Alamos, have lunch with you.

You have to pursue them.

Because, you know, space and time in astronomical terms are huge.

And the chance of them just joining Enrico at lunchtime in Los Alamos in 1950 is tiny.

So you have to engage in building telescopes, searching around.

That's what I'm doing with the Galileo project.

And Enrico didn't build a telescope.

But at any event, one answer to his question, where is everybody, is maybe they had companies like this one that would illuminate the night side of their planet so that astronomers or observers cannot look at the rest of the universe.

And then a giant rock

similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, would eventually hit them and they end their life on a timescale much shorter than they hoped for.

I hadn't considered that, that that new project will make it much harder to track- Much harder.

New Earth objects.

Already now, there are 10,000 communication satellites by SpaceX and others that are reflecting sunlight because they're not hidden behind the shadow of the Earth.

So if- Astronomers hate these.

Yeah, so they create streaks in the Rubin data.

And you can look at the data because now it's available publicly and you can see those streaks.

So the astronomers have to remove them.

But if you put a mirror, basically you'll get as much sunlight as during the day if the mirror is pointed at you.