You Want To Be Extra Rigorous About

If Anyone Has A Vested Interest In Space Solar Power, It Would Have To Be Me.

What Most People Know But Don't Realize They Know Is That The World Is Almost Entirely Solar-powered Already. If The Sun Wasn't There, We'd Be A Frozen Ice Ball At Three Degrees Kelvin, And The Sun Powers The Entire System Of Precipitation. The Whole Ecosystem Is Solar-powered.

It's Important That We Attempt To Extend Life Beyond Earth Now. It Is The First Time In The Four Billion-year History Of Earth That It's Been Possible, And That Window Could Be Open For A Long Time - Hopefully It Is - Or It Could Be Open For A Short Time. We Should Err On The Side Of Caution And Do Something Now.

What I'm Trying To Do Is To Maximise The Probability Of The Future Being Better.

I Want To Make Rockets 100 Times, If Not 1,000 Times Better. The Ultimate Objective Is To Make Humanity A Multiplanet Species. Thirty Years From Now, There'll Be A Base On The Moon And On Mars, And People Will Be Going Back And Forth On Spacex Rockets.