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So I think we need to do this.
It'll minimize the shareholder noise because it'll give less room to somebody that says, hey, he set a valuation out of thin air.
But dollars to donuts, these things are going to merge.
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
There are all of these ways that so many people will end up with participation into SpaceX.
I think we all owe Elon an enormous thanks.
I think that this is going to unleash just an unbelievably large economy of things that we have no idea about.
And when I see this thing, that video that you just showed, what it reminds me is that we have a very rudimentary capability in space.
What does that mean?
If you catch a ride on Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy, basically it's dropping you off at 550 kilometers, I think.
You have a different problem if you're trying to get to GEO.
But even if you get dropped off at 500 or 550, how do you get to your actual orbital plane?
right?
So meaning, if you think of Elon as like the big container ships that go from China to America, once it gets to Long Beach, you need FedEx.
There's an entire infrastructure there that's going to get all of this logistics built last mile.
There's a huge garbage collection problem that's getting built up.
We still haven't technically solved how to do garbage collection in space.
There's nets, there's magnetic plates, all of that is getting fixed.
Then there's going to be an explosion in actual power generation.
The cell composition of solar cells up in space are materially different.