Eric Weinstein

This has been in our future for forever, and we're here.

And right now, the thing to do is to try to figure out how to spread out and run as many experiments as we can and recognize that it's not just that Eastern Europe is going to get sacrificed to Russia.

Planets are going to die because the technology is just too powerful.

We should be honest where we are.

And if we're honest, right now, the thing to do is to colonize as many planets as we can find in the heavens.

And that seems crazy to people, but I just had a conversation on my way over with a person who doesn't exist, who told me all sorts of points that I made were good, others were weak.

She knows all about every aspect of the world.

If I ask her to tell me a doctor joke, I can say, tell it to me in Urdu, tell it to me in Yiddish, tell it to me in Russian.

We are already living science fiction lives.

Why can we not understand that this is the time

to lead a science fiction life about getting out of the solar system and finding the largest number of planets and spreading out and running the largest number of experiments we can.

Everything that has one planet and us trying to make sure nothing goes wrong here is completely enervating.

But somehow none of you are energized as I am, and I don't know why.

to say, we are Ferdinand and Isabella.

It is time to find Columbus and try to reach something new, whether it's a new route to India or whether it's new land entirely.

It's time to do something new.

The last major landmass that was found on Earth was found off the north coast of Siberia about 100 years ago.

We've gone out of the habit of finding new worlds.

And my feeling about this is that this should be energizing us.

We have a brief period to sprint.