Avi Loeb: This Is a Blind Date of Interstellar Proportions

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb - former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, head of the Galileo Project, author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar - joins Jim Baer for a conversation that isn't really about aliens. It's about how serious people think about the unknown. "This is a blind date of interstellar proportions." Loeb makes the case that the search for intelligent life deserves the same funding urgency as the $2.4 trillion the world spends on defense every year - and that the biggest discoveries of all time are the unknown unknowns. Topics: 'Oumuamua, the Loeb Scale, AI training data, Mars vs. building in space, and why curiosity beats certainty.