Mark Kelly

I don't think that should be the goal.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We'll have to solve some really hard problems and we would have the impetus to try to solve those problems in trying to send people there and they would have to stay, you know, if they want to stay for more than like a couple of days,

They're going to have to stay there for like over a year because of the orbital mechanics and the position of Mars compared to the Earth and where the sun is.

So you got to stay a long time and it's going to be challenging.

Well, I mean, long term, I mean, a lot of people hear about like Elon's, you know, desire to do this.

And, you know, he's kind of singularly focused on getting a person on Mars.

I like that part of his plan, by the way.

We talked about the, you know, staying there forever and building a civilization.

When you talk to Jeff Bezos about why he built Blue Origin, I don't think he talks about this, you know, much publicly.

and what he the reason he's doing this is is you know also very ambitious um but you know he he's doing this he built that company and is trying to compete for these whether they're national security satellites being launched or landing people on the moon because of resources

You know, we do have, you know, limited resources on Earth.

You know, things will, over decades and decades, it'll be harder to, you know, find certain elements, you know, that we need for our civilization.

And in some cases, those elements and materials are readily available in space on asteroids.

Could you bring back those to Earth?

Could you get them in low Earth orbit maybe?

You change the trajectory of something and get it into a Leo orbit and then mine those asteroids and bring that stuff back to Earth?

Yeah, we're not doing that in a decade or maybe 10, but maybe in, you know, 40 or 50 years we could do that.