Professor Avi Loeb (Host)

And I was on the President's Council of Science and Technology Advisors, PCAST, at the White House.

So I have a lot of experience managing committees, managing organizations, and I hope to use it to improve the transparency on this subject of unidentified anomalous phenomena and get to the bottom of it.

And whatever it means, if it's human made, we help national security.

That's the minimum.

And then, of course, there is the possibility that we will get the icing on the cake, which is to realize that we are not alone.

I will do my best to update the public through my posts, my essays on medium.com.

I post almost every day.

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By the way, I don't make any money on these essays that I post on the scientific work that I'm doing.

I went on the expedition to the Pacific Ocean.

But there was a proposal by a wealthy individual to fund it if we were to give that person part of the material.

And I declined that.

So I'm not doing things for profit, despite of what some people are saying on social media.

Of course, the proof is that I'm not particularly wealthy.

But I'm driven by a completely different mission, which is to understand the physical reality, the environment that we live in.

That was from my childhood, my obsession of getting answers to very important existential questions.

And the most important among them is, are we alone or do we have siblings in our family of intelligent civilizations?

It will have beyond the financial implications, the economic, you know, the

uh political implications uh the implications for exploration of space it will have religious implications philosophical implications about our place in the universe you know there is no reason that god must be a parent that can attend to only one child we might have siblings and you know we will have to adapt to the reality that some of them are more accomplished than we are

And it may inspire us to explore space and visit their backyard if they're visiting our backyard.