Pamela, can I please get a clean audio clip of you at 3:56 saying, “Sometimes the brightest among us can do stupid things,” with the same inflection (or making it even more Pamela is fine too). I want to add it to my Windows UAC (security) warning rotation. I also loved “The universe keeps proving to be far more creative in what it has within it than science fiction writers are […]” at 6:44 – that needs to be on a tee shirt… and the sides of busses.

@10:07 ". . . with Oumuamua . . . chance to catch up . . . observe . . . " Actually, in an earlier podcast with Prof. Avi Loeb, who - among other things - is involved with Project Starshot, he proposed a flyby of Oumuamua as a test of their system. Also, a second flyby of Pluto and Charon and flybys of other KBO objects before sending a probe to Proxima Centauri..

Just what aliens what us to think!

Until you have your own sighting. ...

I see it as a publicity stunt albeit a bad one for science.