Avi Loeb

And I pointed this out, and Representative Ana Paulina Luna also recommended to NASA to use the Juno spacecraft to look at 3I Atlas.

So I find it really paradoxical that people in Washington, D.C., as well as the general public, gets it while...

My colleagues do not get it.

And there was a request for a Freedom of Information Act release about whether there are any records within the CIA about 3i Atlas.

And the response was, we cannot confirm nor deny such records.

And they could have said, we don't have any.

But even if it's not alien technology, isn't it worth the investment just to be able to spot these objects?

Because if 3i Atlas hit us, that's the end of everything, yes?

That's right.

But you want, for example, to come close to such an object, to image it.

You want to land on such an object, to collect materials, bring it back to Earth, would allow us to examine whether the building blocks of life near other stars are the same as on Earth.

For us, to make a trip to another star would take...

at the very least 50,000 years to the nearest star or billions of years to the farthest stars in the Milky Way.

And that's a very long journey.

We are not that patient, right?

So these objects already made it to our backyard.

It's a lost opportunity for us not to invest more in studying them, bringing materials from them, because observing the universe through telescopes is like observing your street from the windows of your home.

It's very different than going there

and collecting materials, which would take a long time, but if the material comes to you, if you have

you know, objects arriving at your backyard from the cosmic street.