Scott Solomon

So, yeah, so there's interesting lessons that can be learned from, you know, what happens here on Earth.

You know, I think we have this tendency to think about going to space as being like an opportunity to, you know, start completely fresh and get it right this time and all, you know, this like we're going to have a utopia in space.

I'm not convinced by that way of thinking about it.

I think, you know, humans are humans and we should learn from what has happened before and not expect that it would be different there.

So I think we need to try to, you know,

do the things that seem to work well here on earth right i don't think you want to have for example like you know a government uh from earth dictating what happens on mars uh because we know that that doesn't work well you know we know that people uh need to have their own ability to to make their own decisions you you want leaders who have skin in the game it's also highly inefficient

Sure.

And there's a communication delay.

We haven't even talked about that.

You can't have this kind of conversation like we're having where one person is on Earth and the other person is on Mars because they're so far away that you'll have several minutes of delay between when you say something and when the person hears it on the other end.

And it could be up to 20 minutes depending on where Earth and Mars are in their respective planets.

So you can send emails, you know, or video messages back and forth, but you can't really have a conversation.

So, yeah, imagine a government meeting where, you know, you can't even like have a conversation, right?

You think it's dysfunctional now, man.

Well, I think there's a few things, right?

I mean, one is just, you know, knowing that you can't leave.

This is something that, again, people in Antarctica research stations or some of the remote field camps that they experience, you can't just go for a walk or say, that's it, I'm done, I'm out of here.

A similar kind of thing happens to birdwatching.

people who are, um, on, uh, submarines, like nuclear submarines that have to spend a long period of time, uh, submerged during military operations, right?

Uh, can't just step outside.