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Kennedy Saves the World

Kennedy Saves You From The Boredom Of Not Looking For Aliens

Kennedy Saves the World

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4.5813 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kennedy sits down with Harvard University Professor of Science and New York Times bestselling author Avi Loeb to discuss how his journey in academia led him to conduct scientific searches that aim to find evidence of extraterrestrial life.  Avi explains that in 2017, the world saw an interstellar object for the first time named "Oumuamua" which ultimately triggered the start of his scientific investigation, The Galileo Project. Avi details the goals of his project and the technological advances he has been working on to enhance his study. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world.

0:19.0

And today I'm going to save you from the boredom

0:23.9

of not looking for aliens, because now you have license to go and look for aliens from a Harvard

0:31.1

professor who needs your help to try and figure out if we have, in been contacted by someone or if we've gotten junk

0:40.8

from other civilizations that is now wafting through our galaxy.

0:46.5

And that is very exciting stuff because we were supposed to get this big groundbreaking report

0:51.1

from the government years and years of eyewitness accounts, from naval pilots

0:57.6

and the like, people who have been trained to skeptically assess what they see. And when there is

1:03.8

no explanation for generations that has just been swept under the rug, and that is not

1:09.1

satisfying. And that is not scientific.

1:12.1

So today joining me, Dr. Avi Loeb, he's a professor of science at Harvard University.

1:16.9

Maybe you've heard of it.

1:18.1

He's also a New York Times bestselling author because he has wonderful ideas that he is able to communicate that people want to consume.

1:25.9

He is also a cosmologist and a theoretical physicist

1:29.3

and an astrophysicist and an astronomer

1:32.3

and all those things may or may not be true,

1:34.3

but they're impressive to me.

1:36.3

So I will put those labels upon you, good sir.

1:38.3

Welcome to the Kennedy Saves the World.

1:40.3

Well, thanks for having me, and these labels are not really important

1:43.3

because you can think

1:44.6

with me as just a kid trying to figure out the world. I'm no different than the kid I was

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