Elon Musk

But, you know, after a number of months, we started to have some folks going to the office and I started to do that occasionally and then started spending more and more time on what later became called Gemini.

which is super exciting, and to be able to have that technical, creative output, I think that's very rewarding, as opposed to if I, like, stayed retired.

I think that would have been a bad mistake.

We need to get about a million tons, is my guess, to the surface of Mars to make a civilization on Mars self-sustaining.

Again, to that critical point where if the resupply shifts from Earth stop coming for any reason, Mars still succeeds.

Mars can still grow.

And so you can't be missing anything.

You can't be missing even like the equivalent of vitamin C or anything.

You've got to have everything you need for Mars to grow.

That's essential.

So my guess is that's about a million tons, but it might be 10 million tons.

I hope it's not 100 million tons.

That'd be a lot.

But we want to try to get to that point and secure the future of civilization as quickly as possible.

We're going to start with the world's richest man and the biggest merger of all time.

The net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space.

And that'll be true within two years.

Maybe three.

Three at the latest.

Well, the availability of energy is the issue.