Bret Weinstein

traverse vast empty spaces and go to places that were known to have life I'd be all about that but it would only be the real hardcore adventurers that would take that chance and maybe those people are nuts maybe those alien people are nuts just like the human people are nuts that do that kind of stuff right they like to get into trouble winch themselves out wild people they got winches on their spaceships exactly

Well, you've got to also think, here's another problem with the idea of them being biological. It's far more effective to send things that are non-biological into space, like what we're doing on Mars. We don't have a base on Mars, allegedly, but there's a lot of nutty people that believe we do.

But they do certainly have some robots that are on Mars that's gathering data, and they're doing it right now. And so you don't have to worry about radiation, all the things that kill people, make people sad. If we lose one of those rovers, who gives a fuck? Make another rover. Ship it out there. Fly it. Nobody cares.

If you lose 50 people, if you take 50 people and they die on your Mars trip, you're going to have Congress is going to be meeting about it. What are we doing? Why are we killing people? Let's not do that. And so as...

Time goes on and as technology improves and as sentient artificial intelligence becomes a better option for sending some intelligent robot to gather data, why would anybody go through space as a living creature? It seems stupid.

That's the thing. Humans live in the Amazon. True. Humans don't live on Mars. It's way simpler to send a robot to Mars.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Right. But... But it's definitely a potential reality. And if it was possible, it would be a good move if you wanted to hedge your bets.

Which is Elon's position on this. Yeah. You know, that we're in danger of the human race going extinct from a variety of different things. Not even our own fault. It could be a bunch of different things. Asteroid impacts, super volcanoes. A lot of stuff can happen right here that kills us all. Space weather.

Oh, yeah. Fucking some supernova. Too close. Sorry. Everything's cooked.

Oh, fun.

And maybe that's what happened to Mars, which is also part of the problem. Because Mars at one time had an atmosphere. Mars at one time had liquid water. We don't really know what happened.

And we're really looking at a very brief amount of time that we can measure in terms of human experience. It's so brief in terms of what we know about what human beings have experienced. And then we have to go back to like core samples. You have to go back to, oh, it appears that there was Earth one and Earth one was hit by another planet. That's how we get the moon and then the moon.

The moon's crazy.

What a crazy thing that this thing stabilizes us. It's in the exact same right position, exact right size to make sure that we can exist as we exist right now. It's like somebody put it there.

It's a beautiful thing, but it's. It's kind of kooky. It's almost like someone put it there.

Yeah.

Right. Or, yeah, it's odd, but that's also why there's not life everywhere.

And this does happen. And when it does happen, then you get some life.