Avi Loeb

You want to study them.

You want to put billions of dollars on that instead of, because any mission that would leave the solar system would consume much more money.

Now, on top of that, there is a chance that one of these is technological or it could be a Trojan horse.

You think it's a comet.

From the outside, it looks like a very mundane object, but another civilization decided to take a hike

on a passing car and build some infrastructure inside of it that is technological.

So if we see any anomalies, we might want to understand what's going on here.

By the way, if we wanted to go on a trip to interstellar space, we had the five spacecraft that are leaving the solar system, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, New Horizons.

These are the five over the past half century.

But we could also...

take a capsule full of technological gadgets and collide with an interstellar object like three atlas bury the capsule inside you can put for example microbes in the capsule and when the object arrives at another star it will spray out these microbes and you will seed life as we know it on other planets does that sound like a good idea

Well, it depends.

There are people who love as many kids as possible.

So you don't believe in the dark forest theory that maybe we should just be quiet?

It's also a possibility.

We just don't know.

It's possible that the solution to Fermi's paradox is that there are aliens not far from us, but they are quiet, silent, because...

they live in a dark forest where there could be predators.

Those that were not careful were killed.

And so they are listening to us and we might hear from them.