Avi Loeb
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But the Vatican admitted their mistake.
In 1992, they issued an official letter saying Galileo was right.
That was 350 years after he died.
And it's the worst public relations affair that you can have to admit that you were wrong for 350 years.
And how could they have avoided that?
Very simply, if they said, we have more money than Galileo, we will build an even bigger telescope to figure out the truth, and we would prove him wrong.
And then they would have found that he was right.
And so then they would have corrected course.
So my point is, it's really important in cases like this or three-eye atlas, it's really important to get as much data as possible.
Because once you reach a certain threshold, you can't shove anomalies under the carpet of traditional thinking the way that my colleagues do.
Just to give you an example, the first interstellar object was Oumuamua.
And it was really strange because, you know, it was shaped like a pancake based on all the data we have.
And it was pushed away from the sun by some mysterious force without showing any evaporation, no gas or dust around it.
What did these conservative comet experts say?
Most recently, just in December, 2024, there was a paper of them saying, it's a comet, it's a dark comet.
In other words, a comet where you can't see the cometary tail around it.