Earth

I think a lot of people have heard of Plato's Republic or the cave analogy or the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.

And so I want to start kind of at a super baseline level because I think a lot of people, you know, have heard of Plato's Republic or the cave analogy or you know, the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.

It's the it's a sign of of knowledge, right. But it's not full knowledge and think of it for the Greeks. All, well, I mean, you can say something like this. All energy, all heat, all fire on the earth is ultimately derived from the sun. Right. Okay. So he's looking for the source of that fire. Right.

theories of the inevitability of human evolution or of existence on earth. And there's the

Gaia, James, Lovelock theory that, you know, the earth is somehow like super resilient. And so like,

we might come and go, but that, you know, the earth will always sort of come back. And then there's

like you wouldn't have a habitable earth, doesn't point towards like, oh, you had like a million

It shows up and it's like this sort of like earth sustenance kit. And we're not seeing the aliens.

We keep focusing on what happens on Earth, and we might have a neighbor that is far more advanced than we are.

They used the model in which the earth is at the center. Copernicus was playing around with the data and realized that he can actually forecast much better the timing of Easter.

They said, no, they said, thank you so much, we will use it, but we still believe that the earth, this is just a theoretical model.

An amateur astronomer spotted an asteroid that is passing close to Earth, he called it a near Earth object.

And within after the report was classified as an asteroid, a near Earth object, a few astronomers noticed that it has exactly the orbital parameters of the Tesla roadster car.

It will imply that we are all in the same boat here on Earth.

Most people, more than 100 billion people on Earth so far and only 8 billion are alive right now.

So in June 2023, I went to the Pacific Ocean to search for the materials left over from an interstellar meteor, an object that collided with Earth roughly half a meter in size back on January 8, 2014.

All we have seen before were rocks from the solar system from the main asteroid belt or from comets that collide with Earth.

And it's not coming from the vicinity of Earth.

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.

So if you see oxygen, you see water, methane molecules that are indicative of life here on earth, we will have some clues that maybe primitive life microbes exist on those planets, but I say we should hedge our bets.

Yeah, we don't know if only microbes are out there that might be intelligent life in which case it might be even easier to figure out fears or you know, if we were to discover a gadget in the vicinity of Earth or or even just space trash, you know, we are producing a, you can imagine space trash being removed from planetary systems by the evolution of the star when the star becomes very bright or

They're funding the search for microbes with the argument that microbes appeared on Earth very early.

So even though it might be rare than microbes, if you're finding it and interpreting it might be easier, just because it may be targeting, let's say, the Earth, or even if it's just paste trash.

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.

Gravity is attractive, you know, that was the idea of Newton, you know, he saw the apple falling and realized, oh yeah, there is a gravitational force pulling it towards the Earth.

But no, something here, I mean, the two of them, I mean, if you were to sit on, let's say you are sitting on the earth and next to earth, you put a negative mass earth.

It didn't help him. It was 20, you know, two decades after humans landed on the moon. So, you know, at that point was ridiculous for them to insist that the earth is at the center of the universe.

They could see that they're moving, meaning that not everything in the sky is moving around the Earth.

followed the same rules as recombination of electrons in protons in the laboratory is on Earth.

We don't want to hear about it, because to maintain our political power, we need to tell our believers that the Earth is at the center.

That was the dogma, because if Earth is at the center, then God pays attention to us all the time.

That comes very close to earth would be detected by LIGO. But that's a very massive object, a hundred thousand tons. And it needs also to move close to the speed of light. Because if it moves much slower, then it doesn't match the frequency of signal to which LIGO is sensitive.

Yeah, it's not just looking for electromagnetic signals or looking for primitive life or looking for, you know, you could also search for objects near Earth.

If you just build a spacecraft, which is the best we can imagine, you know, that's the biggest wish of the wealthiest person on Earth is to build a spacecraft that will take humans to Mars.

And in difference from him, I will discuss very favorably the possibility that we might have objects near Earth that came from another civilization.