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Just after sunrise today in Austin, Texas, I woke up to the pinging sound of my laptop, as the investigative reporter Ilan Greenberg sent me this link for his POLITICO magazine feature article with the accompanying sentences: “This has been one of my most memorable reporting encounters. I do hope I can write about you again.”
The previous night, I attended the banquet dinner of the Texas Tribune Festival. I am not a social animal and usually rely on my wife for interactions with strangers. But during the pre-dinner cocktail, a fascinating woman approached me out of the blue and her name tag read Gina Ortiz Jones. She said: “Hello, Avi. I am the mayor of San Antonio. What brings you to Austin and what is the latest update about the Universe?”
At dinner, I was fortunately seated next to Dr. Craig Cummings, co-founder of Moonshots Capital, who instantly identified my ethnic origin based on his experience as a veteran intelligence officer at the National Security Agency. As I was informing Craig about my latest research on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), he pulled out his phone and initiated a FaceTime session with his wife, Lawton. She looked at the two of us staring at the camera and said: “Oh my God, I cannot believe that you are speaking with Avi Loeb. I have been following him for years. I will attend his panel discussion tomorrow!”
While waiting for dinner to be served, I received an email from Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, a member of the UAP Science Advisory Council who analyzed a video of 6 dots in the sky released a week ago by tranche 6 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). Our collaborative analysis reveals the fundamental nature of these mysterious dots. More about that when we finish writing the related scientific paper.
On my other side at the dinner table was the CEO of the Texas Tribune, Sarah Adler Hartman, who explained how important it is for journalists to follow facts and not necessarily cater to the wishes of the audience. This is why the Texas Tribune is a non-profit organization, funded by donations. I echoed her sentiments by noting that the same is true about practicing science. My research over the past decade has only been funded by donations with no strings attached. She replied: “My husband, Matt, and I will do our best to attend your panel discussion tomorrow!”
The reason I visited Austin was an invitation to speak in a panel discussion with Eric Berger and the moderator Matt Ewalt about `Space: The Final Frontier’. The forum was held at the Bethell Hall of the St. David’s Episcopal Church. In my native language of Hebrew, Bethell means the house of God, the second time I heard the word `God’ during this visit.
As I left the hotel on my way to my session at the Church, a person from the street approached and asked me to sign my name on an enlarged photo of myself and let him take a selfie with me. He was waiting for me to come out of the hotel after watching me twice on the Joe Rogan Experience, recorded during my previous two visits to Austin.
The hour-long panel discussion and audience Q&A that followed it were fascinating. They covered all aspects of space exploration, including scientific, national, military and commercial perspectives. Eric Berger, who started his academic education in astronomy at the University of Texas in Austin, approached these space topics from the establishment point-of-view and I did so from the curious, heretic and visionary point of view.
When asked about the future space aspirations of humanity, I explained that launching self-replicating AI robots to space would enable interstellar travel. An annual investment of a trillion dollars (comparable to the annual U.S. military budget) could bring humanity by the end of this century to developing a city-size space platform that can accommodate humans or their technological avatars on interstellar trips. This would be a manifestation of Noah’s Spaceship to save humanity from a future catastrophe on Earth, analogous to Noah’s Ark — designed to save life forms from the Great Flood. Nobody would mourn humanity if it disappeared from the face of Earth like many other species in Earth’s history. It remains our own wish to extend the longevity of our species beyond our planet. The Moon or Mars are not good replacements to Earth and humans cannot survive for a long period of time in these harsh environments.
Matt Ewalt asked me about the political aspects of my scientific research, and I explained that science transcends political or financial incentives. Tech entrepreneurs are often watering the branches of the tree of knowledge because they profit financially from picking up their fruits — AI or quantum computers. However, they forget that these technologies emerged from the roots of fundamental science, and the physicists who discovered the underlying principles that enabled their wealth, were paid very little — about a million times less than the net worth of some of these entrepreneurs. I am not asking these entrepreneurs to apologize for their wealth but rather to be grateful to the scientists who discovered quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, as these individuals ushered in the computer chips of today. This means that we should not only water the branches of the tree of knowledge with the unrealistic hope that it will continue to blossom. Instead, we should water its roots of fundamental science.
In reciprocity, scientists should engage in research that is of interest to society because science is funded by taxpayers. Science is not supposed to be entirely detached from the interest of the public. The frontiers of theoretical physics cannot engage in mathematical gymnastics of 10–26 dimensional spacetime for fifty years without reflecting on how they lost their way.
At the same time, the U.S. government reports about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) — an admission that attracts unprecedented attention from the public. Under these circumstances, scientists have the obligation to resolve the UAP mystery because at the very least — in doing so, they will help the Pentagon and the Intelligence Community fulfill their missions. UAP research is a subject that all Americans are interested in, irrespective of political affiliation.
UAP research transcends politics and holds the potential to replace international relations with interplanetary relations. Assuming we are not alone in our cosmic neighborhood, it is our scientific obligation to find our cosmic neighbors. Of course, finding them can only expand our aspirations for space exploration.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/https://www ... sorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvS ... rofAviLoeb
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今天清晨，德克萨斯州奥斯汀的日出刚过，我就被笔记本电脑的提示音吵醒了。调查记者伊兰·格林伯格给我发来他为《政治》杂志撰写的专题文章链接，并附言道：“这是我最难忘的报道经历之一。我真心希望以后还能有机会报道你。”
前一天晚上，我参加了《德克萨斯论坛报》的宴会晚宴。节日期间。我不太擅长社交，通常都靠妻子帮我跟陌生人打交道。但在晚餐前的鸡尾酒会上，一位迷人的女士突然走过来跟我搭讪，她的名牌上写着吉娜·奥尔蒂斯·琼斯。她说：“你好，艾维。我是圣安东尼奥市市长。是什么风把你吹到奥斯汀来了？宇宙的最新动态是什么？”
晚餐时，我很幸运地被安排坐在博士旁边。Moonshots Capital 的联合创始人克雷格·卡明斯凭借其在国家安全局担任资深情报官员的经验，一眼就认出了我的种族背景。当我向克雷格介绍我关于不明异常现象 (UAP) 的最新研究时，他拿出手机，和妻子劳顿进行了 FaceTime 通话。她看着我们俩，两人正盯着屏幕……对着镜头说：“我的天哪，我简直不敢相信你竟然在和阿维·勒布对话。我关注他好几年了。我明天会去参加他的小组讨论！”
在等待晚餐上桌期间，我收到了一封来自雅各布·哈克-米斯拉博士的电子邮件。他是UAP科学顾问委员会的成员，分析了一周前由总统未密封文件第六批发布的、显示天空中六个点的视频。ng 和 UAP 遭遇报告系统 (PURSUE)。我们的合作分析揭示了这些神秘光点的本质。更多详情将在我们完成相关科学论文后公布。
餐桌上坐在我另一边的是《德克萨斯论坛报》的首席执行官莎拉·阿德勒·哈特曼，她解释了记者遵循事实而非一味迎合大众是多么重要。她是听众之一。正因如此，《德克萨斯论坛报》才是一家非营利组织，依靠捐款维持运营。我赞同她的观点，并指出科学实践也是如此。过去十年，我的研究完全由捐款资助，没有任何附加条件。她回复道：“我和我的丈夫马特明天会尽力参加你们的小组讨论！”
我去奥的原因是我受邀参加了一场关于“太空：最后的边疆”的小组讨论，与埃里克·伯杰和主持人马特·尤瓦尔特共同探讨这个话题。论坛在圣大卫圣公会教堂的伯特利大厅举行。在我的母语希伯来语中，“伯特利”的意思是“上帝的殿堂”，这是我此行第二次听到“上帝”这个词。
当我离开酒店前往教堂参加聚会时，一个陌生人街上有人走过来，请我在一张放大的照片上签名，还想跟我自拍。他之前两次在乔·罗根的脱口秀节目《乔·罗根秀》上看到我，就一直在等我出酒店。那两次节目是我之前两次来奥斯汀的时候录制的。
随后长达一小时的小组讨论和观众问答环节精彩纷呈，涵盖了太空探索的方方面面。包括科学、国家、军事和商业观点。 埃里克·伯杰（ Eric Berger ）在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（ University of Texas in Austin ）开始了他的天文学学术教育，他从建立的角度来看待这些空间主题，我从好奇、异端和有远见的角度来看待这些主题。
当被问及人类未来的太空愿望时，我解释说，将人工智能机器人复制到太空将使星际旅行成为可能。每年投资1万亿美元（相当于美国的年度军事预算）可以使人类在本世纪末开发一个城市规模的太空平台，可以容纳人类或他们在星际旅行中的技术化身。这将是诺亚太空船拯救人类免受未来地球上的一场灾难，类似于诺亚方舟--旨在从大洪水中拯救生命形式。如果人类像地球历史上的许多其他物种一样从地球表面消失，没有人会哀悼人类。我们仍然希望将我们物种的长寿延长到我们的星球之外。月球或火星不是地球的良好替代品，人类无法长时间生存。在这些恶劣环境中待的时间。
马特·尤尔特问我关于我的科学研究的政治层面，我解释说，科学超越了政治或经济利益。科技企业家们常常为知识之树浇灌枝叶，因为他们能从收获的果实——人工智能或量子计算机——中获利。然而，他们忘记了这些技术是新兴的。从基础科学的根源，以及发现使他们的财富的基本原理的物理学家，得到的报酬很少—大约比其中一些企业家的净资产少一百万倍。我不是要求这些企业家为他们的财富道歉，而是要感谢发现量子力学和固态物理的科学家，正如这些人开创了如今的计算机芯片时代一样，这意味着我们不应仅仅抱着不切实际的希望浇灌知识之树的枝繁叶茂，而应滋养其根基——基础科学。
作为回报，科学家应该从事对社会有益的研究，因为科学研究是由纳税人资助的。科学并非……完全脱离了公众的利益。 理论物理学的前沿领域不能从事10–26维时空数学体操五十年不反思他们是如何迷失方向的。
与此同时，美国政府报道了不明异常现象（ UAP ） —这一承认引起了公众前所未有的关注。在这种情况下，科学家有义务解开不明空中现象之谜，因为至少，这样做将有助于五角大楼和情报部门完成其任务。不明空中现象的研究是所有美国人都感兴趣的话题，与政治立场无关。
UAP研究超越了政治范畴，并有可能取代国际关系。与行星际关系密切。假设我们在宇宙邻域中并非孤身存在，那么寻找宇宙邻居就是我们的科学责任。当然，找到它们只会拓展我们对太空探索的雄心壮志。
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作者：Avi Loeb（哈佛大学天文系教授）
Just after sunrise today in Austin, Texas, I woke up to the pinging sound of my laptop, as the investigative reporter Ilan Greenberg sent me this link for his POLITICO magazine feature article with the accompanying sentences: “This has been one of my most memorable reporting encounters. I do hope I can write about you again.”
The previous night, I attended the banquet dinner of the Texas Tribune Festival. I am not a social animal and usually rely on my wife for interactions with strangers. But during the pre-dinner cocktail, a fascinating woman approached me out of the blue and her name tag read Gina Ortiz Jones. She said: “Hello, Avi. I am the mayor of San Antonio. What brings you to Austin and what is the latest update about the Universe?”
At dinner, I was fortunately seated next to Dr. Craig Cummings, co-founder of Moonshots Capital, who instantly identified my ethnic origin based on his experience as a veteran intelligence officer at the National Security Agency. As I was informing Craig about my latest research on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), he pulled out his phone and initiated a FaceTime session with his wife, Lawton. She looked at the two of us staring at the camera and said: “Oh my God, I cannot believe that you are speaking with Avi Loeb. I have been following him for years. I will attend his panel discussion tomorrow!”
While waiting for dinner to be served, I received an email from Dr. Jacob Haqq-Misra, a member of the UAP Science Advisory Council who analyzed a video of 6 dots in the sky released a week ago by tranche 6 of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). Our collaborative analysis reveals the fundamental nature of these mysterious dots. More about that when we finish writing the related scientific paper.
On my other side at the dinner table was the CEO of the Texas Tribune, Sarah Adler Hartman, who explained how important it is for journalists to follow facts and not necessarily cater to the wishes of the audience. This is why the Texas Tribune is a non-profit organization, funded by donations. I echoed her sentiments by noting that the same is true about practicing science. My research over the past decade has only been funded by donations with no strings attached. She replied: “My husband, Matt, and I will do our best to attend your panel discussion tomorrow!”
The reason I visited Austin was an invitation to speak in a panel discussion with Eric Berger and the moderator Matt Ewalt about `Space: The Final Frontier’. The forum was held at the Bethell Hall of the St. David’s Episcopal Church. In my native language of Hebrew, Bethell means the house of God, the second time I heard the word `God’ during this visit.
As I left the hotel on my way to my session at the Church, a person from the street approached and asked me to sign my name on an enlarged photo of myself and let him take a selfie with me. He was waiting for me to come out of the hotel after watching me twice on the Joe Rogan Experience, recorded during my previous two visits to Austin.
The hour-long panel discussion and audience Q&A that followed it were fascinating. They covered all aspects of space exploration, including scientific, national, military and commercial perspectives. Eric Berger, who started his academic education in astronomy at the University of Texas in Austin, approached these space topics from the establishment point-of-view and I did so from the curious, heretic and visionary point of view.
When asked about the future space aspirations of humanity, I explained that launching self-replicating AI robots to space would enable interstellar travel. An annual investment of a trillion dollars (comparable to the annual U.S. military budget) could bring humanity by the end of this century to developing a city-size space platform that can accommodate humans or their technological avatars on interstellar trips. This would be a manifestation of Noah’s Spaceship to save humanity from a future catastrophe on Earth, analogous to Noah’s Ark — designed to save life forms from the Great Flood. Nobody would mourn humanity if it disappeared from the face of Earth like many other species in Earth’s history. It remains our own wish to extend the longevity of our species beyond our planet. The Moon or Mars are not good replacements to Earth and humans cannot survive for a long period of time in these harsh environments.
Matt Ewalt asked me about the political aspects of my scientific research, and I explained that science transcends political or financial incentives. Tech entrepreneurs are often watering the branches of the tree of knowledge because they profit financially from picking up their fruits — AI or quantum computers. However, they forget that these technologies emerged from the roots of fundamental science, and the physicists who discovered the underlying principles that enabled their wealth, were paid very little — about a million times less than the net worth of some of these entrepreneurs. I am not asking these entrepreneurs to apologize for their wealth but rather to be grateful to the scientists who discovered quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, as these individuals ushered in the computer chips of today. This means that we should not only water the branches of the tree of knowledge with the unrealistic hope that it will continue to blossom. Instead, we should water its roots of fundamental science.
In reciprocity, scientists should engage in research that is of interest to society because science is funded by taxpayers. Science is not supposed to be entirely detached from the interest of the public. The frontiers of theoretical physics cannot engage in mathematical gymnastics of 10–26 dimensional spacetime for fifty years without reflecting on how they lost their way.
At the same time, the U.S. government reports about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) — an admission that attracts unprecedented attention from the public. Under these circumstances, scientists have the obligation to resolve the UAP mystery because at the very least — in doing so, they will help the Pentagon and the Intelligence Community fulfill their missions. UAP research is a subject that all Americans are interested in, irrespective of political affiliation.
UAP research transcends politics and holds the potential to replace international relations with interplanetary relations. Assuming we are not alone in our cosmic neighborhood, it is our scientific obligation to find our cosmic neighbors. Of course, finding them can only expand our aspirations for space exploration.
Professional website:
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/https://www ... sorAviLoeb
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvS ... rofAviLoeb
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今天清晨，德克萨斯州奥斯汀的日出刚过，我就被笔记本电脑的提示音吵醒了。调查记者伊兰·格林伯格给我发来他为《政治》杂志撰写的专题文章链接，并附言道：“这是我最难忘的报道经历之一。我真心希望以后还能有机会报道你。”
前一天晚上，我参加了《德克萨斯论坛报》的宴会晚宴。节日期间。我不太擅长社交，通常都靠妻子帮我跟陌生人打交道。但在晚餐前的鸡尾酒会上，一位迷人的女士突然走过来跟我搭讪，她的名牌上写着吉娜·奥尔蒂斯·琼斯。她说：“你好，艾维。我是圣安东尼奥市市长。是什么风把你吹到奥斯汀来了？宇宙的最新动态是什么？”
晚餐时，我很幸运地被安排坐在博士旁边。Moonshots Capital 的联合创始人克雷格·卡明斯凭借其在国家安全局担任资深情报官员的经验，一眼就认出了我的种族背景。当我向克雷格介绍我关于不明异常现象 (UAP) 的最新研究时，他拿出手机，和妻子劳顿进行了 FaceTime 通话。她看着我们俩，两人正盯着屏幕……对着镜头说：“我的天哪，我简直不敢相信你竟然在和阿维·勒布对话。我关注他好几年了。我明天会去参加他的小组讨论！”
在等待晚餐上桌期间，我收到了一封来自雅各布·哈克-米斯拉博士的电子邮件。他是UAP科学顾问委员会的成员，分析了一周前由总统未密封文件第六批发布的、显示天空中六个点的视频。ng 和 UAP 遭遇报告系统 (PURSUE)。我们的合作分析揭示了这些神秘光点的本质。更多详情将在我们完成相关科学论文后公布。
餐桌上坐在我另一边的是《德克萨斯论坛报》的首席执行官莎拉·阿德勒·哈特曼，她解释了记者遵循事实而非一味迎合大众是多么重要。她是听众之一。正因如此，《德克萨斯论坛报》才是一家非营利组织，依靠捐款维持运营。我赞同她的观点，并指出科学实践也是如此。过去十年，我的研究完全由捐款资助，没有任何附加条件。她回复道：“我和我的丈夫马特明天会尽力参加你们的小组讨论！”
我去奥的原因是我受邀参加了一场关于“太空：最后的边疆”的小组讨论，与埃里克·伯杰和主持人马特·尤瓦尔特共同探讨这个话题。论坛在圣大卫圣公会教堂的伯特利大厅举行。在我的母语希伯来语中，“伯特利”的意思是“上帝的殿堂”，这是我此行第二次听到“上帝”这个词。
当我离开酒店前往教堂参加聚会时，一个陌生人街上有人走过来，请我在一张放大的照片上签名，还想跟我自拍。他之前两次在乔·罗根的脱口秀节目《乔·罗根秀》上看到我，就一直在等我出酒店。那两次节目是我之前两次来奥斯汀的时候录制的。
随后长达一小时的小组讨论和观众问答环节精彩纷呈，涵盖了太空探索的方方面面。包括科学、国家、军事和商业观点。 埃里克·伯杰（ Eric Berger ）在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校（ University of Texas in Austin ）开始了他的天文学学术教育，他从建立的角度来看待这些空间主题，我从好奇、异端和有远见的角度来看待这些主题。
当被问及人类未来的太空愿望时，我解释说，将人工智能机器人复制到太空将使星际旅行成为可能。每年投资1万亿美元（相当于美国的年度军事预算）可以使人类在本世纪末开发一个城市规模的太空平台，可以容纳人类或他们在星际旅行中的技术化身。这将是诺亚太空船拯救人类免受未来地球上的一场灾难，类似于诺亚方舟--旨在从大洪水中拯救生命形式。如果人类像地球历史上的许多其他物种一样从地球表面消失，没有人会哀悼人类。我们仍然希望将我们物种的长寿延长到我们的星球之外。月球或火星不是地球的良好替代品，人类无法长时间生存。在这些恶劣环境中待的时间。
马特·尤尔特问我关于我的科学研究的政治层面，我解释说，科学超越了政治或经济利益。科技企业家们常常为知识之树浇灌枝叶，因为他们能从收获的果实——人工智能或量子计算机——中获利。然而，他们忘记了这些技术是新兴的。从基础科学的根源，以及发现使他们的财富的基本原理的物理学家，得到的报酬很少—大约比其中一些企业家的净资产少一百万倍。我不是要求这些企业家为他们的财富道歉，而是要感谢发现量子力学和固态物理的科学家，正如这些人开创了如今的计算机芯片时代一样，这意味着我们不应仅仅抱着不切实际的希望浇灌知识之树的枝繁叶茂，而应滋养其根基——基础科学。
作为回报，科学家应该从事对社会有益的研究，因为科学研究是由纳税人资助的。科学并非……完全脱离了公众的利益。 理论物理学的前沿领域不能从事10–26维时空数学体操五十年不反思他们是如何迷失方向的。
与此同时，美国政府报道了不明异常现象（ UAP ） —这一承认引起了公众前所未有的关注。在这种情况下，科学家有义务解开不明空中现象之谜，因为至少，这样做将有助于五角大楼和情报部门完成其任务。不明空中现象的研究是所有美国人都感兴趣的话题，与政治立场无关。
UAP研究超越了政治范畴，并有可能取代国际关系。与行星际关系密切。假设我们在宇宙邻域中并非孤身存在，那么寻找宇宙邻居就是我们的科学责任。当然，找到它们只会拓展我们对太空探索的雄心壮志。
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作者：Avi Loeb（哈佛大学天文系教授）