Jared Isaacman

It was just more about...

you know, kind of government inefficiencies.

I don't think we ever talked about Polaris, none.

Wow, are you serious?

I mean, he always moves on to trying to solve the world's biggest problems.

Yeah.

And he's trying to solve a lot of them across his companies.

But at that time, he was trying to solve the national debt with an interest payment that exceeds the Department of Defense budget.

That was his priority.

So, we really weren't talking about Polaris.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, I would say first, like...

They're very good at setting very challenging goals at SpaceX, but when they achieve them, the capability has utility beyond that.

They want laser-linked communications between spaceships, but that also creates a giant mesh network across their constellation of Starlinks, which allows them to sell more consumer broadband and solve...

airplane and ship and vehicle internet connectivity, not to mention people living in sparsely populated areas, which contributes revenue, which further funds space development.

So my point is they kill a lot of birds with one stone.

So yes, there is certainly an organizational objective of making life multi-planetary, and our best first stop on that journey is Mars.

But when you have a fully reusable vehicle that tops off and refills propellant in low Earth orbit, you can send it anywhere.

You can send it to the moon if you want.

You can send it past Mars.