Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano, is currently looking for a crashed space craft or unidentified flying object in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Papua New Guinea.The search is a component of the Galileo Project, which in March got money from Hoskinson totaling $1.5 million.In 2014, a “meteor of interstellar origin” that struck Earth from space was identified by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his student Amir Siraj, who are now leading an expedition for the project.
The US Department of Defense has confirmed the object’s interplanetary origin, and the Galileo team may have already discovered some of its remains.Hoskinson tweeted on June 16 to affirm he is now with the expedition crew and to report that they had discovered odd wire fragments and other debris that may have come from the accident.There is still a lot of area to cover, he remarked, adding that the sluice sled hasn’t even been unpacked.
The following day, Loeb posted on his blog, saying: “Gladly, we already have one anomaly: a manganese-platinum wire with an abundance pattern that differs from common commercial products.”Although Loeb hopes they are part of a “interstellar object from our cosmic neighborhood,” it still seems too early to say for sure.In a blog post published on June 15, he stated, “Most importantly, I wish to know whether it was technologically created by another civilization.”
Hoskinson has previously invested money in odd projects, so this is not a new occurrence.A $75 million fundraising round for Texas-based bioscience business Colossal, which seeks to bring back woolly mammoths and other ancient animals, was taken part in by the founder of Cardano in March 2022.