Kevin Knuth

And so just claiming it's a comet and throwing up your hands and walking away is stupid.

Just flat out stupid and ignorant.

To say it's an alien spacecraft, well, I mean, yeah, you don't have a lot of evidence for that either.

So that's tough, too.

But it is something we ought to study.

And I remember there were several people who were saying, well, it's not worth studying.

No, this is an interstellar object that tells us what the conditions are like around another star system.

Yeah, this is something you should study.

If you're going to spend money to study another one of our asteroids over something from another star system, there's nothing reasonable about that.

He's an exoplanet guy.

It's a huge deal.

Right.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like dealing with a scientific, it's like a scientific community with bipolar disorder.

Yes.

It's like, it's crazy.

Yeah, it's really difficult.

The, I mean, the best, the quote that comes to mind is from Stanton Friedman, who said,

if you're a scientist and a professional, you need to do your homework before you open your mouth.

Period.