Paul Moss

It is not impossible to put a single data center into space.

But it's never going to be a better idea than building it here on Earth.

Well, you've addressed the economic and the practical, but there is another aspect to this, is there not?

And one that you're interested in, which is the philosophical one, the why.

Not just Elon Musk, but others are saying, look, we have to look to the stars for our future.

You know, Musk talks a lot about putting a million people on Mars by 2050.

in order to create a backup for humanity that will survive in the event of a massive disaster here on Earth, like an asteroid strike.

This is possibly the stupidest idea that I've ever heard.

I think that for someone like Musk or, you know, someone like Jeff Bezos, who's espoused similar ideas, there's two things that work there.

I think two main things.

First, that they are afraid of death and want to transcend all limits and see going to space as part of that project.

And second, they watched too much science fiction and misunderstood it.

Is your concern then that some of this is displacement activity for actually addressing the problems on Earth?

Yeah, absolutely.

The way that Musk talks about Earth is like it's doomed.

You know, yeah, we've got problems here on Earth.

But none of them are nearly as difficult to solve as the problem of getting a large number of people to be able to live on the surface of Mars.

And then take a look at somebody like Jeff Bezos.

He thinks that, you know, the biggest problem that we're facing is that we're going to use up all the resources on Earth.

And so we have to go to space to have access to more energy.