Ross Douthat

Are these sort of separate track projects?

Is there going to be a SpaceX moon base and a NASA moon base?

Like, how does NASA and SpaceX actually fit together?

And I'm grateful.

I mean, just they are actually sending astronauts and rockets up themselves privately in a way that was not happening in 1968.

But is your expectation going forward that Musk, Bezos, anyone else who gets in the game, they will always be working in partnership with NASA in some way?

Or is there a future where, you know, there is a kind of privatized, like actual privatized space exploration where there are bases being built and other things being done, space stations and so on that are

just separate from the US government.

Let's talk about what industry gets out of space besides government contracts.

As far as I know, right now, Elon Musk doesn't want to launch nuclear reactors into space.

He does seem to want to launch data centers for artificial intelligence into space.

What is the potential advantage of having data centers in space?

Is there one?

Again, like 3D printing, you know, biotech, you know, make it concrete since to a layperson, what is the potential benefit of, say, doing medical research in space?

Like, just literally, why is there potential there?

can do it.

What would be, again, as with the cancer drugs, what does space do for a data center?

Why would you put a data center in space?

Okay, so... Besides not having to do permitting in, you know, in a U.S.

state.