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This is one of the most incredible human
achievements I have ever seen. How much
are you like, "This is the coolest thing
I've ever seen in my life."
>> Um,
>> it's a one. Don't care.
>> No, it's No, it's cool. It's definitely
cool. I love stars. I'm a sucker for
stars.
>> Do you know how big that thing is?
>> How big?
>> It's bigger than most skyscrapers. That
thing, it is the biggest flying object
ever in human history.
>> Wow.
>> And they got it to hover. to hover.
Drew, we are actually going to be a
multilanetary species. They're actually
going to be people that live on Mars.
They're going to be children born on
Mars. They won't know Earth. Earth will
be like they've heard stories. They've
seen pictures. All of that. They've
played one of the video games that I
make that's like a Earth Simulator.
They're going to love it. It's going to
be really fun. But they will have never
actually been to Earth. That's going to
happen. Now, that's going to happen in
our lifetime if you keep your diet
right. So, this is called Starship.
They've blown it up before, but this
time it actually went up. Now, they
landed it in the ocean. And if anybody
in chat knows why they landed it in the
ocean, do tell, but they landed it back
in the ocean instead of catching it with
chopsticks. And that I don't know why.
It may just be we're not going to bother
building that stuff until we know it
works. I just cannot believe humans have
been able to do this.
>> I didn't know it was as big as a
skyscraper set. So inspiring.
>> Yeah.
>> Oh my god. They built what they call the
world's most high-tech bakery. So they
bake the heat shields in their own
facility. What Elon is doing, I am so
sad that people uh look at his politics.
Like please, no matter what side of the
aisle that you're on, look past his
politics. What he is showing that human
beings can do is so incredible, man.
Because look, he's able to aggregate
these people. I am well aware that Elon
is not there with a hammer or a 3D
printer making these things, but without
Elon, you never would have gotten this.
>> I feel like we're going to end up
getting space Minecraft versus
multilanetary species. Meaning, we're
going to get these rockets are going to
go to a different asteroid, mine a bunch
of stuff, bring resources back, but
we're never actually going to get people
outside and do all these other things.
>> Wow. What a fascinating bundle of things
to put on the table. Please, I beg of
you to remember money is awesome.
Why is money awesome? Money is awesome
because it is what's known as proof of
work. So, as a species, we realized,
okay, wait a second. I have to exist,
right, across time. So, during that
time, I need to make sure that I
survive. And one of the reasons that
cultures that had winters ended up just
beating cultures that don't is when you
have a winter, you're like, I need to
plan ahead. This is why reason number
462 why Minecraft is the greatest game
of all time. A simple mechanic known as
darkness controls danger. It is utterly
brilliant. You very quickly learn I have
to plan ahead for the night. So humans
realized not only is darkness dangerous,
big animals are dangerous, weather
exposure is dangerous, and we live in
this weird cycle. And so every so often
it gets excruciatingly cold and food
becomes hard to find. And so you start
having to plan for that. And so then you
go, okay, with my time right now, I can
jerk off, flirt with that chick, joke
around with my boys, or plan for the
future. The quote unquote rich people
are the ones that said, "No, I'm going
to plan ahead. I'm going to put all my
time into planning ahead, map a better
path, set a better trap, whatever to get
those resources."
>> So, when I hear you say, "This is space
is going to be like the Minecraft
version and it's just going to be a cash
grab," I'm like, "Yes." Because we are
hardwired to want to turn our time into
resources. Now if somebody lets it
become pathological and they want to
pursue the acquisition of resources and
they have no sense of self, they don't
connect with other people, they have no
meaning and purpose. I get it. It ends
up it's a very sad existence and this is
why a billionaire can accumulate all
that money only to kill themselves. So
space needs to be a quote unquote cash
grab. It's the thing that will
incentivize people to go do it because
right now on Earth they have to say, "I
need to have something to show for my
time." And so getting into space has to
be a cash grab because that's return on
time. We'll never get to space if
there's no cash grab. In fact, the
brilliance of Elon is he's been able to
cash grab every step of the way. He's
gone. I'm going to launch more
satellites, which is just a cash grab
for somebody, right? And so I'm going to
build this thing. I'm going to make
launching satellites cheaper. Cash grab
cash grab for people trying to do
something. And then I'm going to
leverage that to build this other thing.
This is why, by the way, I do impact
theory university. I will often get
asked by my students who understand the
math doesn't make sense for why I do
impact theory university because the
company is already making plenty of
money. So, and I already have ridiculous
amounts of money. So, it's like why am I
doing Impact Theory University? Exactly.
I do it for two reasons. One,
entrepreneurs solve all the problems and
generate all the tax revenue. So,
teaching people how to be entrepreneurs
is very, very smart. And then two, my
video game is a black hole of
investment. Video games are
excruciatingly expensive. So my trade
with myself is I will go do this thing
which I think is very good for the world
anyway, but it also allows me to fund my
game. So I don't need my game to be
successful. I can just keep developing
and developing and developing and
developing and developing until I
[ __ ] figure this out. I probably will
eventually stop teaching entrepreneurs,
but it is how I have a constant fuel
source for the game. I just want people
to have the right relationship to money.
>> Cash grabs are good unless you're Disney
and it's Tron. Haven't seen it, but I
heard it's terrible. Heard it's
terrible.