Chris Williamson

And that was his propulsion engineer.

You're hired.

Yeah.

You're fucking hired.

I know that much.

Orders of magnitude, which has driven Starlink and is going to drive even more.

And now he's talking about building a Dyson sphere, which is solar but in space, so he can capture more energy than even hits the Earth from the sun.

And hasn't he been talking about putting compute in space as well?

Yeah.

Yeah.

These are like big flat sheets that are like solar panels with compute and then like networked together with lasers.

Yeah.

It's just like a bunch of like solar panels with computer chips on the back that like can communicate with each other floating all around in space, which is insane and wild.

But that's not the mission.

Like that is the cargo that

make starship economic to build hundreds or thousands of them but the actual mission is to make life multi-planetary and this goes back to like zoomed all the way out his altruistic philanthropic things is like look we should all agree that we do not want the only form of life that we know in the universe to die like we are the only conscious beings we know earth is the only

planet with life that we know of can we all agree that like it would be great to have life move just just next door just get some on mars just get a couple you know maybe a million people get some plants like if a comet hits earth or we blow ourselves up or there's a catastrophic pandemic like we've got another horse in the race like whether you're an environmentalist or a humanist or anything like this is a thing that we should universally agree is good um and

why not go for it?

Like he's like, this is the window that is for the first time in not just human history, but Earth's history, we have the ability to make life redundant, to get it to another planet.

And isn't that like one of the grandest missions that we can conceive of?