He was a priest, loyal to the church. He said, here is a model where the sun is at the center and I can give you much better prediction of when Easter takes place.
And then I suggested maybe it is technological in origin and since we didn't launch it, it's not bound to the sun.
It was moving too fast to be bound to the sun by gravity.
The good news is we have a lamppost in our vicinity. It's called the sun. The sun illuminates the darkness of space. And so it's easier to find your keys under the lamppost.
So when objects from outside the solar system come close to the sun, they get illuminated, they get heated. So from a distance, you can see them. And you can also, if they evaporate as a result of coming too close to the sun, you can actually detect what they are made of.
And so I wrote a paper a month and a half ago, just explaining that a meter sized telescope in space could detect every five hours a new object that comes within the orbit of mercury around the sun, which is three times closer to the sun than the Earth is.
Just because the sun illuminates such objects so brightly and I'm talking about objects that are of the order of a meter in size, you know, we, Omoa Moa was 100 meters in size, the size of a food world field bigger than starship, you know, our biggest rocket that we ever.
You know, there was a paper by an astronomer named Otto Strouve from 1952, who said that if a planet like Jupiter happens to be close to a star like the sun,
Because people said we understand why Jupiter is very far from the sun.
It's not extraordinary. And I say billions of years ago because most stars from billions of years before the sun, the sun formed only in the last one third of cosmic history.
I mean, so when we launch spacecraft, we are just responding to the standard gravity that, you know, the Earth, the Sun, planets, any other body generates.