Jared Isaacman

But yes, I think if we put our effort to it, we'll see it in our lifetime, could even be in 10 years.

They're both important for some overlap on missions and some just very different.

Look, if our sensor capabilities now are so good, so much better than they ever were even a decade ago that when you send a probe,

to, let's say, the outer solar system, or we have a mission we're talking about to Venus potentially, it's going to gather so much information so quickly that by the time you send the data back to Earth through transmission delays, allow it to be analyzed, send your next command back of go investigate this or send me more information on that, you will have wasted an incredible opportunity.

So you're going to have to

take advantage of all that data you're gathering for like literally on mission or on orbit processing, determine what you just found or learned or what problem you encountered, fix it, move on, and then send your status report back home.

So this is inevitable.

especially now when you talk about crude missions, you know, going to Mars, you have 20 minute plus transmission delays.

You're going to have to rely on AI in that crude environment for just on-orbit decision-making problem troubleshooting.

But I do think the human is important on missions that they're capable of undertaking.

Let's take Mars.

Look, I think there's been three or four public announcements, one point or another, that it's like, hey, we've looked at this data, we've analyzed it from this sample.

there's a good chance that there was, you know, microbial life here maybe at some point in time.

But this has been going on for decades, right?

This isn't like one single news release on this.

It's been going on for decades, right?

And...

I think there's plenty of scientists at NASA that are brilliant that would say, look, I'm 99% sure that at some point there was microbial life, right?

So short of like literally having a camera that sees something squirming around and beaming that back home, which we've never seen to be extremely clear on the subject,

No one is going to believe it.