Avi Loeb

Not at night.

We use infrared sensors and we tested for that.

But this is one unit and we have additional units looking at the same objects at the same time.

That allows us to triangulate.

Are any other observatories triangulating?

I don't think so.

No.

No, so that's an amazing accomplishment we have from the last few weeks.

And now for the first time, we're able to tell distances and velocities and accelerations of objects.

Because if you don't know the distance, it can be a relatively slow object moving just in front of you.

And this allows us to check if all the objects we find in the sky are within the performance envelope of human-made technologies.

So we are now at a point where we don't need to wait for the U.S.

government to tell us what lies outside the solar system.

We can find out.

I mean, it may be just like waiting for Godot, you know, Samuel Beckett's play.

You can wait forever.

The government will trick you and...

But you can instead just look up, you know, what's the big deal and do it in a scientific way.

Is this why you opened it up to the public now?

Yeah.