75. The Galileo Project - with AVI LOEB

In episode 75 of The Eric Norcross Podcast, Eric talks with Avi Loeb about his book "Extraterrestrial", and his newly formed initiative to search the skies for extraterrestrial objects, The Galileo Project. They also discuss science-fiction, and the ways speculative-fiction writers interact with real-world science (or seem to avoid it altogether).  

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author. He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986), led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988), and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books, including most recently, Extraterrestrial (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), and about 800 papers (with an h-index of 117) on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the head of the Galileo Project in search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics.  

Intact Discourse:   

Avi's website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ 

The Galileo Project: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home 

Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb: https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147  

*Eric mentioned a podcast Avi was on, Metaphysical Milkshake: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/avi-loeb-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/id1566052074?i=1000542080921  

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