Avi Loeb

Believe me, the Israeli intelligence agencies will not make that mistake again.

Now, here comes an object from outside the solar system, and it shows anomalies.

The scientists would say we should be as careful as possible at talking about anything other than a rock.

Now, they say that when they know that we launched, humanity launched a lot of space junk, a lot of technological objects to space.

And we also know that there are 100 billion stars like the sun in the Milky Way galaxy alone.

Most of them formed billions of years before the sun.

And there are billions of Earth-Sun analogs.

Now, we all believe that we came out of a soup of chemicals.

You know, that's the scientific narrative of how human intelligence came on this Earth.

And so it's quite likely that, you know, we are not the first one.

Sorry to break the news.

Elon Musk was probably not the most accomplished space entrepreneur since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

And therefore, we should consider the possibility that things like us existed long before us.

And you can ask the question, how long does it take our own technology, the Voyager spacecraft that we launched out of the solar system, how long does it take it to move to the opposite side of the Milky Way galaxy?

you know, thousands of light years away, takes less than a billion years.

And that means that all these civilizations that had their history initiated billions of years before ours could have done it.

And all we need to do as responsible scientists is to check if among all the rocks that come from outside of our backyard are really rocks,

Or maybe one of these objects might be a tennis ball that was thrown by a neighbor.

And the reason I say that is, you know, we live at our home on Earth next to the sun.

We look around us in the cosmic street and we see a lot of houses just like ours.