Avi Loeb

I don't know, I want to get as much data as possible.

If the government has it, I would love to help them figure it out.

So at the moment, within the Galileo project, we are looking for unusual objects.

And once we recall them, obviously I'll try to make sense of them.

And if the US government has that kind of data, then I'm happy to help them.

So we shall see.

I hope that in the coming months and years, we'll know much more.

I hope there is something out there

And, you know, if you adopt the mindset that

Where is everybody?

I have no partner out there.

You will never seek a partner.

You will never find it.

So I prefer to be an optimist because sometimes life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you tell yourself, there's someone waiting for me out there, you might find that someone.

If you say that's heresy and that possibility should not be contemplated even in a single sentence in a published paper, then...

You will stay alone, and of course, you will maintain your ignorance forever.

That's not the future that I would like to be part of, where we remain ignorant because that's what we prefer to believe.

Are there any other scientists doing good work that you would recommend that maybe don't get quite the publicity that you do?

There are scientists that are either attending to reports by other people or they are going to very short trips to collect some data, but they are not conducting a systematic scientific study the way that the Galileo project is doing.