Cardano Founder Dives Dip Into The Pacific In Search Of Aliens

Cardano's creator, Charles Hoskinson, is hunting for an unidentified celestial object that crashed near Papua New Guinea's coast. This exploration is part of the Galileo Project, which Hoskinson backed with $1.5 million in March.

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj are leading the expedition. They discovered a "meteor of extraterrestrial origin" that hit Earth in 2014. The U.S. Department of Defence has confirmed the object's interstellar source, and the Galileo team might have already located some fragments.

On June 16, Hoskinson tweeted that he's currently with the research team and that they've found peculiar wires and pieces potentially from the crash. "Plenty of ground to cover and we haven’t even broken out the sluice sled yet," he added.

In a recent blog post, Loeb mentioned: "we already have one anomaly: a manganese-platinum wire with an abundance pattern that differs from common commercial products." Yet, it's too soon to determine if these fragments are from an "extraterrestrial object from our cosmic neighborhood," as Loeb aspires.

Loeb voiced his eagerness in a June 15 blog post, saying, "Most importantly, I wish to know whether it was manufactured technologically by another civilization."

This isn't Hoskinson's first investment in an unusual venture. In March 2022, he participated in a $75 million funding round for Texas-based bioscience startup Colossal, aiming to resurrect woolly mammoths and other extinct species.