Prof. Avi Loeb's The Galileo Project

Dean

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The Galileo Project: "Daring to Look Through New Telescopes"

In advance of The Galileo's Project's inaugural press conference on July 26, 2021, the Project issued the attached press release. It says "confidential" on the bottom of each page only because this material was originally issued under embargo, but the embargo period has now ended.
 

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Dean

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"Often scientists have made self-fulfilling prophecies.... If you say, 'I need extraordinary evidence,' before engaging in this activity [of gathering high-quality data], you will never find it....Extraordinary conservatism leads to extraordinary ignorance." -- Prof. Avi Loeb, July 26, 2021
 

HAL9000

Honorable
This looks as if it could be interesting.
But I notice (bottom of last page) that one appears to have to use twitter to follow progress.

Seems a bit odd. I would have expected a site similar to Spaceweather for such a large project.

Has anyone been able to follow progress so far, by any method.
 
"If you say, 'I need extraordinary evidence,' before engaging in this activity [of gathering high-quality data], you will never find it....Extraordinary conservatism leads to extraordinary ignorance."

Yes. Thank you for saying this! I've been saying it too.
 

wwkirk

Divine

I listened to this interview earlier today. He has a solid scientific approach, and equally solid credentials. I really don't know what there would be for skeptics and naysayers to object to.

I hope the UFO community is supportive, despite its relatively cautious and circumscribed strategy.
 

HAL9000

Honorable
I just hope that, being a 'serious' endeavor', it doesn't suffer from the jokers and general arseholes who flood the ufo sites with false claims and hoaxes.
 

wwkirk

Divine
I just hope that, being a 'serious' endeavor', it doesn't suffer from the jokers and general arseholes who flood the ufo sites with false claims and hoaxes.
From the interview, it will utilize virtually zero witness testimony. It will be instrument based, augmented by AI.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Activities

Three things all in the same drawer and although I understand what I read they seem like strange bedfellows.

  1. Obtain High-resolution, Multi-detector UAP Images, Discover their Nature
  2. Search for and In-Depth Research on ‘Oumuamua-like Interstellar Objects
  3. Search for Potential ETC Satellites:
#1 Is what we live and breathe, our stock in trade. It's what the Navy has been ON about lately. Understandable. More please.

#2 Well ...... OK. The idea of being able to track an object in our solar system isn't something I'd necessarily connect to the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. Depends on how excited you got about Oumuamua and how many of these objects we're talking about. Having space missions ready to go intercept them sounds like a stretch.

#3 Where the hell did that come from? Who's been talking about 1 meter or less satellites outside of DoD?
 

HAL9000

Honorable
There was an interesting item about a possible Alien space ship parked out in the Kuiper Belt.
I'll try to find a link to it.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
They are starting to look at the chemical composition of the atmosphere of exoplanets.
Unusual Exoplanet Might Be Regrowing Its Atmosphere | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

The capability to do that will only improve, so statistically it's just a matter of time before one of them will be found to be cooking something artificial in it's atmosphere. I thought I read somewhere that the James Webb observatory might have the ability to actually see some of these things directly as in, lights on the dark side - sounds far fetched but who knows.

Point is - that's where I'd put my money in the 'most likely place to find ET' pool. Kind of thought a place like Harvard might mention that considering what they want to do.

Like I said, #1 is low hanging fruit. Too many reports, too many years. Got it.

#2 well, OK. Depends on how excited you got (or not) about the big cookie shaped visitor. Rendezvous With Rama this was not.

#3 yeah. cubesats. Because someone got the idea we're being monitored by tiny satellites. Tiny, perishable low orbit gadgets that are easily launched. Yup. They're here. This sounds more DoD than Harvard.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
 

wwkirk

Divine
Avi Loeb article.
Everything You Need to Know about the Galileo Project
The Galileo Project is a search for extraterrestrial equipment near Earth. It has two branches: the first aiming to identify the nature of interstellar objects that do not resemble comets or asteroids, like `Oumuamua; and the second targets Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), similar to those mentioned in the recent ODNI report to the US Congress.

The Galileo Project has drawn a remarkable base of expert volunteers, from astrophysicists and other scientific researchers, to hardware and software engineers, to non-science investigators and generalists who volunteer their time and effort to the project in various ways.

The project brings together a broad community of new research affiliates, including UAP advocates like Lue Elizondo, Chris Mellon or Nick Pope and skeptics like Seth Shostak or Michael Shermer, united by the pursuit of evidence through new telescopes without prejudice.

The project values the input of many different voices, and the rapid progress it already made, is a testament to its open approach. As different as the perspectives of the researchers and affiliates may be, however, every contributor to the Galileo Project is bound by three ground rules:

  1. The Galileo Project is only interested in openly available scientific data and a transparent analysis of it. Thus, classified (government-owned) information, which cannot be shared with all scientists, cannot be used. Such information would compromise the scope of our scientific research program, which is designed to acquire valid scientific data and provide transparent (open to peer review) analysis of this data. Indeed, the Galileo Project will work only with new data, collected from its own telescope systems, which are under the full and exclusive control of Galileo research team members.
  2. The analysis of the data will be based solely on known physics and will not entertain fringe ideas about extensions to the standard model of physics. The data will be freely published and available for peer review as well as to the public, when such information is ready to be made available, but the scope of the research efforts will always remain in the realm of scientific hypotheses, tested through rigorous data collection and sound analysis.
  3. To protect the quality of its scientific research, the Galileo research team will not publicize the details of its internal discussions or share the specifications of its experimental hardware or software before the work is finalized. The data or its analysis will be released through traditional, scientifically-accepted channels of publication, validated through the traditional peer-review process.
All members of the Galileo Project team, including researchers, advisors and affiliates, share these values and uphold the principles of open and rigorous science upon which the Galileo Project is founded.

The Galileo team developed a design of telescope systems optimized for imaging UAP, as well as a blueprint for a space mission to image unusual interstellar objects like `Oumuamua.

I will carry a printed version of the Galileo plans with me and hope to share it with high-level attendees of the Ignatius Forum “Our Future in Space, in which I am honored to take part at the National Cathedral in Washington DC this coming Wednesday, November 10 @ 7PM, with registration available for online viewing. The Galileo Project was also mentioned recently in an amendment proposal SA 4281 by Senator Gillibrand, filed on November 4.

The outcome of scientific research cannot be forecasted. The Astronomy Decadal Survey in 2010 did not anticipate the main discoveries of the last decade, such as the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, the discovery of the first interstellar object — `Oumuamua in 2017, and the imaging of the black hole in M87 in 2019. These items were not even listed as high-level priorities in astrophysics a decade ago. Here’s hoping that the findings of the Galileo Project will be the highlight of the next decade in Astronomy.

As Robert Frost noted in his poem “The Road Not Taken”:“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood… I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”

There is a great advantage to taking the road not taken. If there is any low hanging fruit along that path, the Galileo Project will harvest it.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
 

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