Avi Loeb

So we have to go underground and...

It's just another rock that has much worse conditions than on Earth.

So why would you leave your home planet and go to a planet that is much worse in terms of habitability?

My recommendation is to invest maybe a trillion dollars in a project to build a...

a space platform that can accommodate humans.

So we design it in a way that would give all the nutrients, all the, provide the habitat, provide the artificial gravity and all the conditions that we are used to on earth and put it in space.

Because, you know, we went from the jungles of Africa to high rises in, in cities.

And the,

That was a big leap because we had to search for food in the jungle and it was a zero-sum game.

If someone gets that food, the others will not.

And now you can order the food and it will come to your doorstep.

That was a huge transition and we just made it in maybe hundreds of thousands of years.

And going from high rises in cities to space, to me, sounds like less of a leap.

And we just need to focus our ambitions on that transition.

And then instead of making humanity

multi-planet species, making it a space-engaging species.

If we build our own habitats, we can make sure that it provides what we need.

We can equip it with nuclear energy and with artificial intelligence, we can create sort of a heaven.

And frankly, I would love to go on a journey away from Earth.

When I read the news every day, I'm very frustrated.