Bryan Callen

Which is that they're 10 years more advanced?

And we can make the inverse argument that the space industry initially was a government project, which resulted in the invention of advanced plastics, polymers, certain paper towels and a bunch of other products.

Velcro.

Velcro, that was government.

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

I think the issue here is that the government is more interested in geopolitics and less in the moon.

Elon Musk is more interested in Starlink, the moon, et cetera, and Mars.

So the US government has asked, what's the military application of a moon base?

And they say, eh, we gotta deal with oil.

Okay, well, AI is, we're using advanced AI in the Iranian war.

The US government's immediate reaction is gonna be like, going to the moon's not gonna solve the problem of China as a rising power,

but AI is.

So I will add to this.

I disagree just because we, I think it's,

Let me give you a side story.

There is a series of UFO sightings somewhere in the Gulf region near Louisiana and Florida.

And all of these UFO people started talking about the strange sightings of UFOs.

And unfortunately for many of these UFO people, the reason why these stories get so exciting is because they couldn't be bothered to do a Google search.

And when I did, you know what I found?

An advanced aeronautical research lab for the US government operating in that area.