Jeff Thornburg

So I don't know why we kind of have our heads in the sand about this.

Say it right.

Okay, sure, head up our ass.

So if I was testifying before Congress to your question, I would be hitting those points really hard because we need to be accelerating capabilities that are going to preserve, I want to preserve low Earth orbit, mid Earth orbit, LEO, Cislunar, around the moon for commercial opportunities in the future.

And so my thesis is, if I don't do my part to protect and defend it with the Department of Defense, there's not going to be a spot to make money commercially in the future.

And that's how it's been.

So we started sailing wooden ships.

The pirates were there.

It's going to be no different on orbit.

So what are we going to do about it?

Leave the world behind on Netflix.

I loved how you characterized it because that's the same message that I try to send when I'm talking to, why should the average citizen care about this?

They should care because when they go to the gas pump, it's not going to work because GPS does the timing for the gas pump.

When they go to get cash from the ATM, it's not going to work because GPS does the timing for the ATM.

We've selectively tied our financial systems to GPS, and we did that.

We made a choice.

We said, oh, this is cool.

Let's do this.

This is handy.

China did not do that.