It’s called the Galileo Project and is sponsored by a well-known Harvard professor.
Behind the search for Oumuamua, the mysterious object entered the Solar System that to some seemed an alien spacecraft, and the Breakthrough Initiatives, a program of extrasolar exploration by probes, to be sent in the direction of the nearest planets, there is only one name: it is that of Avi Loeb. Now the astrophysicist employed at Harvard University has borrowed the name of an Italian genius for the project that will result in an alien hunt: it is the Galileo Project, which has already collected the contributions of some enthusiastic supporters.
With how much money has already been funded the Galileo Project
In all, the project for the search of a sighting of a non-terrestrial civilization has collected 2 million dollars. As convinced as funders seem to be of Avi Loeb’s vision, the same cannot be said of the scientific community.
Despite skepticism from colleagues, Loeb, who sounds a bit like a dreamer, argued the reasons animating his latest initiative this way: “We can no longer ignore the possible existence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations,” he said. The urgency would be motivated both by Oumuamua, considered by the Harvard man as an extraterrestrial cigar-shaped probe, and by the report on the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) declassified and made public by the U.S. government.
“We want to clear the fog through a transparent and scientific analysis”, these are the words of those responsible for the project inspired by the Pisan astronomer. What exactly does the Galileo Project consist of?
Exactly what does the Galileo Project consist of and how does it work
It consists of setting up a network of mini-telescopes that encompasses the entire Earth in order to quickly identify any alien probes. An early warning system and an artificial intelligence system should complete the brand-new equipment made available to scientists to peer into the depths of space and spot interesting anomalies.
Cambridge, California, Chicago, Princeton and Caltech, the Galileo team involves researchers from the most prestigious universities on the planet and brings them together in a team that could not be called second-rate.
There is no shortage of critical voices, including Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen’s University in Belfast, who spoke of “stupidity” in relation to the project. Giancarlo Genta, professor emeritus of Construction of Machines at the Polytechnic of Turin, instead, is among the enthusiasts: “It would be a network of telescopes, that today would cost about half a million dollars each, to realize a civil network that would recognize eventual unidentified flying objects”, he said.
The search for an extraterrestrial contact has taken unpredictable directions, as that of a video game.
Giuseppe Giordano