Jeff Thornburg

We spend so much time and money trying to keep humans alive that it slows our pace of exploration on orbit.

So let's get AI and ML out there on spacecraft, exploring the solar system and teaching us what we don't know yet.

Yes, machine learning.

So that then we can engineer the systems that keep people alive and get it right the first time.

And we can get more exploration done faster because we're not spending all this money to keep people alive right now.

Let's go learn what we need to learn to keep people alive.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah, I haven't made up my mind on that.

I guess I would tell those people it's easier for me to keep your robot alive than a human alive in space.

You got my vote with that one.

And then on the propulsion side, I think what we're learning in quantum physics, this is where I'm gonna carefully delve into your universe for a hot second.

I am not the expert in quantum physics, but I do read a lot because I'm super interested in what we're learning there.

But I think there's elements of the quantum world that are going to unlock propulsion technologies that might look similar to a warp drive.

But I think we need to unlock some more understanding of the quantum universe to do that.

I think that's going to be the linchpin in giving us sci-fi geeks the warp drive we want.

That would be an awesome thing.

And you could probably get that funded because there's a lot of defense applications for quantum as well.

Okay.

I think we can do that.

We're moving fast in quantum.