Palmer Luckey

There's very little consideration for what is better for people, what would be better for more animals.

And if you look back again, the earlier parts of the United States history, there were serious proposals by the Department of Interior to say, what should the United States ecosystem look like if we could make it whatever we wanted?

What animals would we have?

Would we have hippos?

Would we have rhinos?

Why not?

Why don't we put hippos in Louisiana?

There was just this endless possibility.

Big thinking, but what's crazy is it's not even big thinking in the way that we would think of today.

When people think of big thinking, they immediately jump to really hard ideas.

Fusion power, and what if we could bioengineer ourselves?

The ideas they were having, they would have big impact, but they're actually easy ideas.

It's just, what if we brought some hippos, put them over there in that swamp?

The big idea is what could we do economically?

Would that be a good meat source?

Could we use that as a better protein source that is less damaging to environments that we're trying to preserve than what we're currently doing with cows?

And those types of ideas, they're not taken seriously today.

People treat you like a crank if you step outside the orthodoxy.

Probably give us a solid six.

It's one of those things when it comes to the talent, we've got really, really good talent.