The Glenn Beck Program Best of the Program | Guests: Eric Trump & Avi Loeb | 10/17/25
Oct 17, 2025
Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and author of 'Under Siege,' shares insights into his family's political journey and discusses New York City’s mayoral race. He highlights the risks of candidate Zohran Mamdani's policies. Harvard professor Avi Loeb dives into the mysteries of interstellar objects like ʻOumuamua, exploring the potential for alien technology and the dangers of incoming threats to Earth. Loeb also discusses the advances in detection methods and planetary defense strategies.
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Why We're Seeing More Interstellar Objects
- New wide-field survey telescopes and better computers explain the recent rise in detected interstellar objects.
- Rubin and Pan-STARRS now routinely spot football-field-sized near-Earth objects previously unseen.
Speed Reveals Interstellar Origin
- Objects moving faster than ~42 km/s near Earth are unbound to the Sun and thus interstellar.
- Oumuamua and subsequent finds showed these high-speed signatures indicate extrasolar origin.
Size Scales: Regional Versus Global Risk
- A football-field object would cause severe regional devastation but not global catastrophe.
- The dinosaur-killer was roughly Manhattan-sized and would trigger planetary-scale effects.
