Avi Loeb

And that's why I feel very strongly that we should do the search.

And then what do you find?

The people not only are not allocating funds to the search,

but saying we should look for microbes.

Now, the one advice I can definitely give on dates is when you go on a date, aim high, don't aim low, meaning it's much better to meet a partner that is smarter than you are.

I did.

Jen, are you listening?

She is.

Probably not.

She hasn't watched the show.

Anyway, but what my colleagues are aiming at is microbes.

I would be bored with a dating partner that looks like a microbe.

You know, like, okay, we know that there is life out there, and we also know that on dates, the most common partners you would find are mediocre.

So yeah, it's quite likely that there are many more microbes than intelligent beings, but why don't we aim high?

So you're not excited about maybe the Mars?

Oh, I'm pretty confident that Mars...

a few billion years ago had liquid water on the surface because we see the impact of the liquid water on the surface.

Conditions where it had an atmosphere and it existed for a couple of billion years.

And we know that on Earth, a twin planet, life was well developed by the time that Mars lost its atmosphere.

and liquid water on the surface.