Chris Williamson
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So he's like, how did you learn how to do this?
And he's like, I just read books and I talk to people.
I read all the textbooks on rocket science that I could find.
I borrowed them and I started talking to experts.
And his rocket propulsion engineer was a guy who was like the foremost rocket hobbyist.
He had built the single largest rocket engine as just a dude in his garage, Tom Mueller.
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.