Jared Isaacman

Maybe some will land.

Totally.

And that's going to look pretty awesome when you see a robot walking around on Mars, even if it happens in 28.

So it's not like we'll be without some entertainment over the next 10 years until this happens.

I think there's two...

There's two problems that we're going to have in order to make that dream a reality.

There's a lot of them.

I mean, look, the reentry of Starship into the Mars atmosphere, propulsive landing, all that.

But let's just assume they solve all those things.

How do you come home?

So that's the biggest issue I think of is like, you will be able to get astronauts there a lot sooner than you would be able to bring them home safely.

And there's no one-way missions in this work.

If someone wants to sign up for a one-way mission to Mars, auto excluded from the list.

See ya.

Like you are absolutely the wrong mindset to go on an endeavor like that.

So you have to have pretty high confidence that you can get people back.

Right now,

If SpaceX were to do this entirely on their own, they're going to need to mine propellant, manufacture propellant on the surface of Mars.

And they need a lot of power to do that.

So you need either a nuclear reactor on a starship to create surface power, or you're going to need like endless football fields of solar cells, which I don't love that idea.