Chris Williamson

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?

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.