Jared Isaacman

And it's like, you know what, I want a team of 14 of them, two at every one of the centers and get them out there and do the analysis we would do if a Google lost their way or a Meta lost their way and give me the information so we can course correct a little bit.

So yeah, it wasn't just like, you know, SpaceX, there's people from various, you know, backgrounds that could help, you know, refocus the agency on the true needle movers.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know the full history behind it, like how far it goes back and when we thought it might be a key to fusion power.

But I'll tell you, there's a lot of really smart people that are champions of it.

Harrison Schmidt walked on the moon, first geologist, first true scientist to walk on the moon.

He's in his 80s and sharp as hell and

He's still studying lunar rocks, and you ask him, and he's like, I think helium-3 is going to unlock a lot of potential here on Earth, and there's certainly more of it on the Moon than there is here on Earth.

Also, again, and I'm not pretending to be a physicist on this, I do believe we have demonstrated that we can get more power than we put into a very brief fusion reaction using helium-3 as a fuel source.

Um, so anyway, that, that's like what we know.

I'm, I'm, I'm definitely not taking an inch farther than I have already other than, um,

We need an orbital economy and helium-3 is probably one of the better ideas on what it could be.

That would be more or less a lunar economy.

All that said, I don't think, not to contradict Steven, I don't think China's mining anything.

China has certainly had some successful missions to the moon.

Honestly, if we don't course correct, they will beat us back to the moon.

Um, but I don't think we've gotten, you know, they're not, they're not, they haven't set up industrial operations yet on it.

That doesn't mean we should like, we should try to do everything we can to make sure that we don't fall behind in that.

But, um, we still have time.

I mean, the high ground has mattered from the beginning of human history.