Episode 130
Avi Loeb: This Is a Blind Date of Interstellar Proportions
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb - former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, head of the Galileo Project, author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar - joins Jim Baer for a conversation that isn't really about aliens. It's about how serious people think about the unknown....
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Episode Summary
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb - former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, head of the Galileo Project, author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar - joins Jim Baer for a conversation that isn't really about aliens. It's about how serious people think about the unknown.
"This is a blind date of interstellar proportions." Loeb makes the case that the search for intelligent life deserves the same funding urgency as the $2.4 trillion the world spends on defense every year - and that the biggest discoveries of all time are the unknown unknowns.
Topics: 'Oumuamua, the Loeb Scale, AI training data, Mars vs. building in space, and why curiosity beats certainty.