Todd Howard

I mean, if humans are ever to become a multi-planetary species...

We need to play games.

We need to read sci-fi to help imagine that that's possible, to look outside of Earth, to look outside, look up on the stars, then we can actually travel out there.

I don't know.

There's power to sci-fi to do that.

I guess you shouldn't feel the pressure of that.

Yeah, because in the next couple of decades, likely a human being will step foot on Mars, which are the first steps towards us becoming multi-planetary.

Yeah, especially if it's intelligent life.

I've been talking to a lot of biologists and a lot of folks.

I imagine there's life everywhere out there.

The challenging question is what it looks like and how much of it is intelligent.

So a lot of biologists tell me the big difficult leap is from the prokaryotes to the eukaryotes, so like the complex life.

It could be that a lot of our universe is just filled with bacteria.

That would be a cool thing in this short life of ours to find out definitively that there is an industrial intelligence civilization out there before you contact them.

So like die, end your life, not knowing the rest of the story, but just know that it's out there.

That's a cool.

And then if you have kids be like, well, this one's on you.

F this, I'm out.

I mean, both things.

If there isn't life out there, that's also a huge responsibility.