Professor Avi Loeb (Host)

are these visitors hostile or friendly should we protect the earth against them should we figure out what technologies they are using what will be the impact on financial markets on society at large there are so many questions and the first thing is of course to demonstrate beyond any doubt the evidence and that's the goal of the

of the council to figure out if there is such evidence.

And if not, if it turns out that all these objects happen to be human made, then at the very least, we serve the US government in the sense of allowing it to defend strategic assets much better because apparently these are coming from adversarial nations.

I personally... Sorry, let me correct that.

I don't mean to say that it doesn't matter.

I mean to say there is something far more important.

Something much bigger that we should focus on.

Let me ask you the following.

When the Vatican in 1992 announced that Galileo was right and they were wrong,

Did anyone prosecute them?

Did anyone say we should put you in jail because you argued incorrectly that the Earth is at the center of the universe?

Did anyone do that?

And they tried to hide the information.

They put Galileo in house arrest, which is equivalent to suppressing knowledge from the public.

of what he found through his telescope.

They didn't want him to express that.

The same was true about Copernicus.

They banned his book until the 19th century.

The church banned a book and yet nobody was upset and furious to put those people to punish them for doing that.

So