Jared Isaacman

That's why there's a spectrum here of making life multi-planetary.

Elon has correctly identified probably the most important goal for Mars is to make it self-sustaining.

So if someday something terrible were to happen on Earth and the resupply ships stopped coming, that our species could continue on.

Totally.

From my perspective, Mars doesn't have to become Earth.

It never will become anything like Earth, not in any foreseeable future.

It is more of an outpost in my mind.

It is more akin to a research station in Antarctica than anything else.

We need to get there and show that we can get there and that we can maintain an outpost and

you know, generate power and propellant and learn things with the idea that we are going to continue on, that it is one stop on a much longer, grander journey, because that is not going to be a good home.

And we also have never faced anything like this in our history here on Earth.

You know, the age of exploration, you get on a ship, you go from Europe to the New World.

Trees are trees, water's water, fish are fish, deer are deer.

You work really hard, you chop down enough trees, you build a bigger house.

You figure out you're trapping fur and you're selling enough of it, you're wealthy or whatnot.

You could spend your entire life on Mars, you're gonna be in a bubble.

Like you're not going to go outside and, you know, chop down more trees and build a nicer bubble.

So life there is not going to be pretty, but we have to go there and we have to have that stepping stone if we want to go even farther.

And we must because even Mars is, you know, again, it's our next door neighbor.

It's nothing compared to the trillions of galaxies out there that we are inevitably destined to explore.