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Beatrice Villareal, thank you so much for being here,
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I think a lot of people know about this transient work.
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We have been looking for like multiple transients and images.
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Of what was in the sky.
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And if you have that a part of them are real and a part of them are plate defects, then you will have a deficit.
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I would be happy if it would be 1%.
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But when you get, like, 30-35% and you say, am I calculating it correctly?
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He was even caught by his understudy, Dorit Hofleit, destroying astronomical plates at the Harvard Observatory.
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And he helped the U.S. Air Force to debunk the Washington 1952 flap.
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It's not beyond belief to me, then, that a widespread cover-up could have occurred.
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Many of the townspeople are obsessed with UFOs.
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What I didn't know is that there's apparently since the early 1960s, there were something called uncorrelated targets.
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You're basically, it's like a, oh, they're just, it's noise in the data or something.
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It's something to be filtered out.
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And the uncorrelated objects, just for the audience, because we've jumped back and forth between transients, which are these light flashes that you were detecting in these plates from the, you know, 50 to 56.
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Do we know that these are the same thing?
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Perhaps strangest of all, in the official Near-Earth Satellite Project's final report,
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these two objects aren't even mentioned.
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I want to design the experiment.
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So he has used the sample from the Spanish Virtual Observatory, the same sample that we
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use for the Umbra test, exactly the same thing.
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Red light therapy has really been a game changer for me, so I hope you love it.
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And for each day we recorded, was there a nuclear test that day?
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There were like 134 over that period of time.
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Yeah, I'm trying to think of what happened in 56 or 57.
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I believe that was 56, 57.
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Drake scrounged together an antenna and dish using scrapped radar parts from World War II
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Instead of waiting around for radio signals to cross interstellar distances,
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why not send a physical robotic probe to the star system of interest?
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Even if you couldn't have a real-time conversation with someone from another star,
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you could upload an automated messaging system, or even eventually your mind, into an interstellar spacecraft,
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which could then, upon arriving in orbit of the destination planet, after eons in the void,
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initiate a real-time conversation with the local lifeforms.
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But what would the first message be?
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How would one even go about starting such an interspecies dialogue?
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Bracewell's idea was simple.
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You'd intercept whatever radio transmissions the locals were already sending out,
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and then send those radio transmissions back to them.
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Bracewell took his speculation one step further by considering that such a probe may already be lurking somewhere in the dark recesses of our solar system,
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waiting to reach out at any moment.
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One may recall a relevant scene in Carl Sagan's classic novel Contact, which follows SETI astronomer, Ellie Arroway,
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the Lagrange points are a great strategy for playing such an observational long game.
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taking local transmissions and bouncing them back.
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I know there's going to be a lot of pressure on me.
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The only thing that would happen is that there is scientific data confirming something that is already known and probably there's loads of results that are classified related to this.
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There's nothing related to discovery being first.
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Later, I found out that other observatories had made exactly the same observation,
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and that in fact American tracking stations had photographed the same thing and couldn't identify it either.
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Well, here's the thing.
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That episode was just the tip of the iceberg.
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