Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

But like...

As a scientist, I'm glad there's two other Chinese gravitational wave observatories that mimic LISA because that means there's more probability that this science that I love will actually happen.

But we are losing out.

We're not going to be able to have the technological know-how.

We're not going to have the stable of people who can solve big problems.

And so we lose out.

And that sucks for us.

Yeah.

I get it.

I also think it's just, and I think I'm echoing some of the things that y'all, y'all are saying too.

It's just that the act of building this humanity scale system,

scientific endeavor, the act that we're participating in that trains us, trains our, you know, it allows us to have a pool of people who are prepared to tackle the next challenge.

I was just talking with a friend the other day who said, you know, there's always these disaster movies.

And then somebody, you know, comes and says, let's get us a scientist to solve all the problems.

And it's usually somebody from NASA that comes to like save all, save, save the earth.

But we won't have those people.

if we are not participating in these, you know, big challenges.

Yeah, I think that's great.

I personally am excited about the gravitational wave aspects, but there's a lot of technology that can be used for the efforts for things like the Moon to Mars effort.

So needing to know exactly where we are is GPS.