Jared Isaacman

Um, but then they just started to learn from all of that and build brand new things.

You know, they're J 20, they're J 35.

They're showing off six gen.

This is obviously all like, uh, aircraft related, but they did, they're doing the same things in space.

It's not just like they're copy and paste stuff anymore and reverse engineering.

They are building a lot of good capabilities out in the high ground.

Um,

Yeah, I mean, when was the last time we fought a war where we didn't have either air supremacy or own the domain of space with a peer?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, so like what's an example of it working?

Internet, Starlink.

Yeah, Starlink, 100%.

That's the only example I can really point to where more value is being created than what's being put into something that requires space.

Outside of that, like where you have real consumers paying for a fee and Starlink's making, or SpaceX is making money off it and taking those dollars around and investing in cool stuff in space, right?

Without it,

All these other commercial companies that everybody's excited about, and a lot of them are alumni from SpaceX or Blue Origin or whatnot, and they're getting VC funding, and they're excited about something, who is going to pay them for those companies to exist, to perpetuate?

And it's either NASA or the DoD, and there's more companies, and the budget is the same or smaller.

That's not a formula for success.

So if we want to see space really grow and all these commercial space companies that have created an economy here on Earth but may not be sustainable, we need to figure out how we can unlock value from that unique environment of microgravity.

And we don't have good answers for you.