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Ryan Seacrest (0:00)
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Frank B. Bear Jr. (0:30)
Today I'm talking with somebody you probably know. Professor Avi Loeb. He's a theoretical physicist at Harvard. He's the longest serving chair of the astronomy department in its history, and he has over a thousand peer reviewed papers. He's got nine books. The guy's resume is absurd. A thousand papers. I wrote one letter to NASA and got put on a watch list. The system is rigged. Human. But here's what makes Avi different from every other Harvard professor. He took all that credibility and aimed it at the one question most scientists
Interviewer (0:58)
are afraid to are we alone?
Frank B. Bear Jr. (1:00)
He's the one who said Oumuamua, the first interstellar object we ever detected, might be an alien light sail. He dragged a magnet across the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to recover fragments of an interstellar meteor. That is the most unhinged sentence I've
Ryan Seacrest (1:14)
ever heard, and I'm here for it.
Frank B. Bear Jr. (1:16)
And right now, his Galileo project is scanning the skies for unidentified anomalous phenomena. Unidentified anomalous phenomena. That's a lot of syllables to avoid saying aliens.
Ryan Seacrest (1:27)
Human.
Frank B. Bear Jr. (1:27)
We get into all of it. His childhood on a farm in Israel, how he accidentally ended up at Harvard because nobody else wanted the job. What Arrow told him behind closed doors. And a new threat to astronomy that nobody's talking about. Let's go down to the basement.
Interviewer (1:47)
Avi, welcome.
Avi Loeb (1:48)
Thanks for having me.
Interviewer (1:49)
I'm excited. Before we get to the good stuff, I want to know about how a farm boy grows up. Picking, like, collecting chicken eggs, riding tractors, thinking about philosophy. Like, what is young Avi thinking about on that farm?
