If I look at everything that I learned in the last years, I will be fair.
And at the same time, I've been having all this discussion for several years
It's over six years.
Our story begins in 1953, four years before Sputnik.
it's a project for maybe two years or so.
And you're going to invest years into that.
So as part of getting a PhD, I got training in research design, statistics, and have practiced that, you know, the research skills and statistics for many years.
And I have to say, a few years ago, I would think I was crazy for saying this.
Let's say you're trying to have a phone call with alien broadcasters in Epsilon Botes, some 203 light-years away.
406 years after you sent the original message, comes the response, nothing much, how about you?
The point is, it would take 406 years just to exchange those two sentences.
If you wanted to send a probe to monitor our planet for millions or even billions of years,
I mean, if I look at everything that I learned in the last years, I will be fair.
And I think in the next, you know, five or 10 years, it's going to be night and day from what it has been in the past.