Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Breaking news today has been announced from from Harvard University courtesy of none other than past guest and

frequent friend of the show, Professor Avi Loeb.

We're going to get into everything that's happened since the last time he was on the

podcast when his wonderful book came out extraterrestrial. But today he is joining us to

make a special announcement and I actually have a connection to Avi about special announcements and it has to do with an

announcement he helped to make in 2014 on March 17th I'll remember the day for the

rest of my life and it was about 400 or so years after 450 years or so

after Galileo Galilei his birth and that announcement was about a

refracting telescope named Bicep 2 and

Avi was a big part of that announcement but today he's making an announcement

also connected to Galileo Galilei and I don't know much about it but it is so exciting to hear the announcement that was just made alive from the

From CFA and elsewhere.

Avi first of all, how are you doing my friend and what is this big announcement what does it have to do

with the maestro my hero Galileo galley.

Thank you Brian it's great to be with you and the reason we chose the name

Galileo for this project is because it has a potential of revolutionizing our world view.

I'm not saying we will definitely discover something as fundamental as Galileo discovered, which was basically the case that we might not be at the center of the universe.

Prior to him it was very flattering to the ego of a lot of people to believe that we are at the center and it

started with Aristotle and many other people and then Galileo argued otherwise and of course the response was quite negative and if he was living today

he would have been cancelled on social media but instead the philosophers at the time refused to look through his telescope.

They basically argue that they know the answer without that and put him in house arrest.

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