My guest today, Avi Loeb, is a professor in and the former chair of Harvard's Astronomy

Department.

He said an extraordinary academic career, but that's not wise for making headlines.

He's in the news because of his claims that he has uncovered evidence of interstellar

objects, opening the door to the possibility that we've already been visited by intelligent

alien life.

I'm not making a wild conjecture here.

I'm just saying what we see in the solar system, imagine it being the case in hundreds of

millions of other planets that have conditions similar to the Earth, making us not unique

and special.

Just believing the mediocracy of the existence of technological civilizations.

That's all.

Welcome to People I Am Mostly Admire with Steve Levin.

I've spent a great deal of time studying obvious claims and I have to say it's not at

all obvious to me where the truth lies.

He's got a ton of media coverage, but most of these interviews, they only last a few minutes

and these are complicated issues that can't adequately be addressed in soundbites.

The podcast format, it provides us a luxury of time and I'm hoping we can dive into the

science behind the radical claims he's making.

You have an incredible resume, physics PhD at the age of 24, you've been spent five years

at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, which is perhaps the best place in the world

to be young scientist, tendered at Harvard, chairman of the astronomy department, the founding

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