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Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Technology (Unitech) in Papua New-Guinea and Harvard University
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The Galileo Project at Harvard and the PNG University of Technology formalize collaboration in scientific retrieval and analysis of meteorite fragments CAMBRIDGE, USA/LAE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — August 21, 2023 — Today Harvard University and the Papua New...
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2024 Harvard Professor Avi Loeb on Signs of Life Beyond Earth, Harvard Magazine (April 17, 2024) A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest., Business Insider (April 8, 2024) Harvard...
The Electricity of Imagination
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Simple Is as Simple Does A formal education doesn’t teach a level of imagination that is often needed for solutions. Trivial insights could be surprisingly rare. Michael Faraday, one of the most influential scientists in history, had little formal...
Will A.I. Replace Astronauts?
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Machine Explorers Launching autonomous systems into space may define the longevity of our technological civilization. Have others gone before us? The Perseverance rover surveys Mars as a six-wheeled motorized robot, controlled by the Jet Propulsion...
The Play is Not About Us
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Finding other intelligent life may enable humans to mature and gain a more modest perspective. Time for a new Copernican revolution? We are born into this world like actors placed on a stage without a script and we tend to think that the play is about us...
A Sermon about Extraterrestrials
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The discovery of equipment from extraterrestrial civilizations will have a profound impact on humanity. The newly announced Galileo Project will search for such relics near Earth. How could it change us? During the Jewish High-Holidays, Rob Dobrusin, an...
The Next Sunrise Will Look Different
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Life as We Know It Circumstances make our lives different. The same must be true for extraterrestrial life and spacecraft. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I developed the routine of a morning jog around 5 AM in the company of birds, ducks, bunnies, wolves...
Rising Above the Rubble
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What should we study? When a new understanding of reality is supported by data, there is no need for it to be popular. Nature shapes our future, irrespective of any incorrect notions held by people. In a recent forum that I attended with executives, the...
The ‘Adults in the Room’ Could Be Scientists
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The Galileo Project provides closure to those frustrating conversations in my youth, where the adults in the room pretended to know much more than they actually did. The most vivid experience from my childhood is long dinner conversations during which I...
Note to Branson and Bezos: Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Impressed
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If they exist, they’ll find our puny forays into space completely insignificant
Astronomers Should Be Willing to Look Closer at Weird Objects in the Sky
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The Galileo Project seeks to train telescopes on unidentified aerial phenomena