Avi Loeb

You can still do that, but let's allocate one trillion out of the 2.4 to space exploration.

And just think about the new technologies that we would develop.

And I call it Noach's spaceship.

In my book, Interstellar, it's sort of like the ark that Noach built to save life from the great flood.

And in this case, saving humanity's future with a space platform that can accommodate humans.

And of course, if we see someone else did that, then it will inspire us.

But this kind of monument of things that we send to interstellar space that would survive for billions of years is the only thing that will be remembered by...

whoever writes the history books of the Milky Way galaxy in the long-term future.

Here on Earth, I'm sure that within a few decades, the history books will be written by AI.

Yes, they will.

And so we obviously need to be kind to them so that they don't say bad things about humans in the future.

But if we venture to space, that could be a place

where we can deliver the vision that we have to a much bigger community, perhaps, of other beings.

And I find that exciting.

I see that as...

messianic age because if we see a space platform that was developed by another civilization it will perhaps inspire us to cooperate to to live more peacefully with each other because we are all in the same boat you know and this boat is about to sink in a billion years you know no matter what we do so we better cooperate and build something else that carries us away from this sinking boat

and that is the messianic you know era that is talked about in religions of peace and prosperity and cooperation and i just think that the messiah will not be a human here we go it's

It might be from another star, that's all.

Because it will inspire us to do.

We could reach the same conclusions on our own, but I'm not naive to think that policymakers will change the allocation of $2.4 trillion a year to military conflicts just because we could go to space.