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...