Elon Musk

I mean, I think this year China will exceed three times US electricity output.

And electricity output is a reasonable proxy for, you know, for the economy.

In order to run the factories and run everything, you need electricity.

Electricity is a good proxy for the real economy.

If China passes three times the U.S.

electricity output, it means its industrial capacity, that's a rough approximation, will be three times that of the U.S.

In the absence of

breakthrough innovations in the US, China will utterly dominate.

Yes.

Well, if you do, like to scale AI in space, like basically you need the humanoid robots, you need real world AI, you need a million tons of air to orbit.

Like, let's just say, like, if we get the mass driver on the moon going, my favorite thing, then I think... We'll have solved all our problems.

Yeah.

So this is, like, I call that winning.

I call that winning.

Well, actually, there is a Highland book.

The moon is a harsh mistress.

No, they have a master driver on the moon.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, they used that to assert their independence.