Shawn Ryan

So like...

When I was a kid, it was really almost grim or very pragmatic.

I was like, you just want to get to Mars.

You don't necessarily need to come back.

So can you do the first person to go to Mars one way could bring a bunch of genetic material in a little ark and have it cryogenically frozen out?

I was thinking, send them one way.

So I think someone could get to Mars, absolutely, if they change the definition or the scope of what their goal is.

But yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not going to be the expert on that.

I think that I definitely would be parroting things when I was a kid off of what other people were saying.

And I do think it depends what you want for it.

I always thought manned missions were cooler than automated missions.

The vibe was cooler.

But it does make sense sometimes to not risk life and limb for no reason.

I do think that...

Yeah, I don't... I think it depends what the goal is.

I think, like, I'm more promoted for getting around red tape to do something cool.

And again, I kind of also...

I really liked – it's weird because I think that I had secondhand sci-fi because I never read these sci-fi books growing up, but all of the people I admired did.