Chris Williamson

And he puts it on this evolutionary timescale, right?

So like,

there was suddenly single-celled life and then multi-celled life.

And then there was fish and then the fish came on land and then the split into like plants and animals, different forms of life.

And going from earth to our first new planet is this massive step function in basically how successful life is and its resilience to whatever comes next.

They have essentially a monopoly on the toll booth off the planet.

Do not pass go.

Do not go to the moon.

Give me $200.

They could have been one of the greatest companies on Earth, even if they never built Starship, even if they just cash flowed off of Falcon 9 and they were the only reusable rocket company.

They would have been an unbelievably successful company, but they are reinvesting into Starship.

They're trying to build compute and energy in space.

They're trying to build a, I think he's been talking now about like a mass driver on the moon that'll build these like von Neumann probes and all kinds of other crazy stuff.

But the historical analogy that he talks about is like, this is when the new world was discovered.

Like we all existed around the Mediterranean for like most of Western human history.

And then all of a sudden Columbus discovered the new world.

And it's like, all right, we need new shipping technology.

We have a taste for all of the fineries of this new world.

So many people want to pay for passage.

And it's like this economic bonanza and just zoom all the way out again.