Jared Isaacman

I acknowledge that there are a lot of factors in humankind's limited ability

history relative to the age of Earth that, yes, we could have destroyed ourselves before we ever had the opportunity.

The idea that we don't have any evidence of intelligent life out there that's been able to reach out or communicate with us does not have me discouraged at all.

Look, we're only 100 plus years into our industrial revolution here where we'd even remotely have the capability to detect something, let alone our ability to communicate out there.

By the way, space is pretty big.

I mean, for all we know, the most advanced planet, you know, life that's out there could be a water planet filled with dolphins that can't construct a rocket or something.

I just think if you think about the scale of the universe right now with how many, like we said it before, you got 2 trillion galaxies plus that are out there.

Every galaxy's got who knows how many stars in it, how many of them have potentially habitable planets.

We can't put a ceiling on anything and we couldn't possibly appreciate what could be

more evolved than us.

Other than, look, there are things we know based on our understanding of physics today.

There is a cosmic speed limit, right?

So if you can't travel faster than light, look, there's, you know, what are the odds that you would have some sort of an advanced species be able to arrive in a star system to a planet at a time when that life would have reached a point that we would consider intelligent life?

It's like, at this stage, it's near impossible to imagine that.

We have literally just dipped our toe in the grandest sea of all, and we haven't even begun to understand what's in front of us yet.

A hundred percent.

I was speaking to our associate administrator yesterday, Amit, and I was like, you know...

You imagine people at a time going back many thousands years ago that were hollowing out a log to make their way across essentially a pond and probably thinking, man, I sure have it better than the guys before who had to swim it, right?

I was like, when it comes to, you know, in our present day at NASA and our capabilities to even explore our solar system, let alone everything around us, we're just hollowing out a log.

No, it's a good question.