Thought this community would appreciate it. Franck Marchis has spent 20+ years at SETI Institute studying asteroids and exoplanets, and his current obsession is a weird gap: with every camera and satellite pointed up, there's still no complete, continuous, verifiable record of what's overhead. ~99% of meteors entering the atmosphere go undetected. He's building an open network to close that gap and he's answering anything on r/IAmA today: HERE

Quick heads up: Franck Marchis (senior astronomer at SETI Institute, co-founded SkyMapper and Unistellar) is live on r/IAmA in about an hour. He's building SkyMapper, a decentralized network of sky cameras that records and timestamps everything overhead, 24/7, with cryptographically verifiable provenance. He's careful not to overclaim...his position is that we can't say anything rigorous about anomalous aerial events until the baseline data actually exists, and right now we detect barely 1% o...

With every surveillance camera, weather station, and smartphone pointed at the sky, why does nobody have a complete, continuous picture of what's actually up there? Right now, we detect barely 1% of the meteors entering our atmosphere. Aerial events, whether astronomical, man-made, or otherwise, are reported globally, but the resulting data is fragmented, unverified, and almost always too low-resolution to be scientifically useful. My name is Franck Marchis. I'm a senior astronomer at the SET...

With every surveillance camera, weather station, and smartphone pointed at the sky, why does nobody have a complete, continuous picture of what's actually up there? Right now, we detect barely 1% of the meteors entering our atmosphere. Aerial events, whether astronomical, man-made, or otherwise, are reported globally, but the resulting data is fragmented, unverified, and almost always too low-resolution to be scientifically useful. My name is Franck Marchis. I'm a senior astronomer at the SET...

With every surveillance camera, weather station, and smartphone pointed at the sky, why does nobody have a complete, continuous picture of what's actually up there? Right now, we detect barely 1% of the meteors entering our atmosphere. Aerial events, whether astronomical, man-made, or otherwise, are reported globally, but the resulting data is fragmented, unverified, and almost always too low-resolution to be scientifically useful. My name is Franck Marchis. I'm a senior astronomer at the SET...

Hi @SETIInstitute. Why are you publishing rules for Earth on how we will deal with aliens? Remember when you ridiculed and criticized scientists and public officials who listened to whistleblowers saying the U.S. government has withheld information about non-human intelligence? You do not deserve to have anything to do with the thing you said does not exist, while treating the rest of us like idiots for believing it might. Leave the question of extraterrestrial intelligence to the people and...

OK, but post-disclosure, everyone at @SETIInstitute has to personally apologize to Giorgio Tsoukalos @Tsoukalos for being wrong. https://t.co/To75s2tZ64 [Quoted] A Skeptical Guide to UFO Cases and Claims With Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film "Disclosure Day" about to debut, scientists and educators will face a new barrage of student and public questions about UFOs (or, as they have been rebranded, UAPs). @AndrewFraknoi has put https://t.co/iuNdR00Vcs

🚨The SETI Institute Peddling Mick West Debunks for UFO Skeptics This tells you all that you need to know about SETI and the search for other life... Or lack of searching! https://t.co/Nr1O4btHFO #ufotwitter #uapX [Quoted] A Skeptical Guide to UFO Cases and Claims With Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film "Disclosure Day" about to debut, scientists and educators will face a new barrage of student and public questions about UFOs (or, as they have been rebranded, UAPs). @AndrewFraknoi has pu...

SETI institute puts out a propaganda guide on how to debunk UFO reports. Says all the UFO claims are bogus. Linking to work from "shrewd investigator" Mick West