Recently, I was invited to attend a NASCAR car race on October 25, 2025 in Bakersfield, California, where one of the racers, Alex Malycke, will decorate the hood of his car with images of me and the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. I told Alex that this honor is more meaningful for me than to the interstellar object because 3I/ATLAS is currently moving at a speed of 68 kilometers per second behind the Sun — at least 600 times faster than his car.
Around the same time, I was invited to a podcast interview with Joe Rogan, where I will break some interesting news.
Yesterday, 51 stippled watercolors featuring pioneers of science were placed on the walls of my Harvard office along with two bronze sculptures of Galileo Galilei — who demonstrated that the Moons of Jupiter do not revolve around the Earth, all donated by the remarkable artist, Greg Wyatt. While the carpenter was hanging Greg’s framed watercolors behind me, New-York Mayor, Eric Adams, and his staff held a zoom meeting with me to discuss my latest research. An hour later, I had a zoom meeting with the wonderful Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, CEO and executive chair of Tribeca Enterprises. Our conversation was followed by a podcast interview from India about interstellar objects.
What is all the fuss about?
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