I'm John Batchel with three men from MIT, Richard Binzel, Artem Berdenoff, and Julian DeWitt.

They are planetary scientists, and they work for space telescopes, James Webb in this instance,

for their nature magazine, but I'm going to turn to the future, the fantasy

future. Julian, you've got an unlimited budget. What do you want to do next about your discoveries

either in the main belt or Trappist Juan? Good evening. Good evening. I think what comes next,

I mean, you're giving me options here between the asteroids and

planet beyond the solar system.

Continuing everything we've talked about with regard to planetary defense and how we're

doing great with upcoming telescopes are a capability to deflect the asteroids, I think I

would probably turn to exoplanetary science and then

look at the next generation telescope in order for us to identify all of the Earth-sized planet

that are close by, because so far detecting capabilities are only for the planet that happens

to be passing in front of the star from our point of view. And that would require moving to techniques that be called direct imaging.

And so direct imaging actually allows us to get sensitive to the light of planet themselves.

And so there are different mission or mission design in the pipeline.

And so my preference at this stage would be to support truly innovative mission design,

such as the Nautilus mission design that we can talk about at later time, if you'd like.

Yes, so we're talking about terrestrial planets, rocky, wet, in the habitable zone, near to Earth.

How near? What is your range?

Quite further away, New York is from Boston.

Yes. We're talking about, we're talking about, say, within 100 light years. That's probably

about the bird park. Wonderful. That is the future. Richard Binzel, what is your

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