 Let's start with Richard Branson. That's exciting. So Richard Branson launched himself into space today, first, kind of first civilian, if you will, to go into into space on a, I guess it was a kind of a plane went up and landed incredibly cool, completely privately funded. They launched off of from New New Mexico and the United States. And there we go. Florida Nick is starting us off with $2. We could make this a $2 day and we could just get all of you to just do $2 and $2 and see how how much money we can raise at $2 a pop. So keep it up, Nick. Thank you, Florida Nick. So here we are. We've got a first man in space billionaire in space in eight days on seven days. I think Jeff Bezos is going up into space on Blue Origin. And what's interesting there is there's there's some really healthy competition between Blue Origin and Virgin Galactica, I guess it's called. And so far, right, we've seen the Virgin as one because because Branson got into space first, but it's interesting because Blue Origin announced that Jeff Bezos will be launching in seven days. And Virgin was supposed to launch just a test flight with some pilots today. But Richard Branson jumped in basically announcing that he wouldn't let Jeff Bezos be the first man into space. So some healthy competition there and therefore he joined the flight today and went into space. And now there's competition about what you define as space. So it turns out that Branson went something like 84 kilometers up and the United States defines the beginning of space as something like 84 kilometers. But the international body, some international body that regulates the stuff, defines going up into space as 100 kilometers. Jeff Bezos is going to go 100 kilometers. So the whole week, Blue Origin has been poo-pooing the achievement of Richard Branson by saying he's not really going to space. It doesn't really count zero gravity as much, you know, it's going to be a much shorter time and zero gravity. And it's not really a rocket, it's an airplane. And so there's this competition going on between the two from a marketing perspective, from a technology perspective, from a timing perspective. You know, and I find it cool to see. I think the idea of private individuals making it into space at their own expense is truly thrilling and exciting. And proves that even big capital ventures, even big ventures that take a lot of money can be done by private enterprise, that you don't need government to initiate every advancement. You don't need government research, government money, government funding to move humanity forward. It's actually pretty rare and pretty unusual that government is funding things that actually all the way push us forward. They might fund some of the basic research because they're the only funders today of basic research. They crowded out everybody else. But in terms of taking that basic research and turning it into something that is useful for human life, it's not what government does. And it's not what government is capable of. And even if the government stepped out of basic research, it's not like there'd be a hole there. And I think what Branson and Bezos are doing is showing us that private enterprise, private ambitions, private selfish, self-interested interests can move civilization forward. And space is the next frontier. It's phenomenal to see us breaking into space and what human beings can achieve and what is possible. I think every time these guys launch rockets into space and ultimately make that trip to Mars and put humans on Mars, these are massive achievements for human beings, for the future, for the advancement of technology, for the advancement of human ability. And it truly is fantastic and it's a slap in the face to the status to, again, think that only with government can we achieve anything. Victor Barati, thank you. He's continuing on the $2 a Christopher is going up to the 550 Canadian, which is what, four bucks or for something. U.S. attempting Christopher for your support. I really appreciate the support at whatever level you guys choose to support it. I appreciate it with its two dollars, two pounds, 550 Canadian, whatever is really great. So Branson is the first billionaire, well, he's the first civilian to fly into space in a civilian, in a privately funded civilian aircraft. And that is truly fantastic, the beginning of space tourism. And look, people are going to complain, oh, only billionaires can do this, only billionaires can. Yes, that's right. But what's the point from the perspective of the people? The point is that billionaires are first adapters of very, very expensive technology, but what happens over time? Because billionaires are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars doing this, because Branson has been willing to spend a trillion dollars in developing this technology. That technology is going to get cheaper. The more billionaires and the more gazillionaires or whatever the level of wealth they have. Sorry, Branson has spent a billion dollars, not a trillion dollars, he's not a trillion and a billion dollars to develop this technology. But the more they're willing to spend their own wealth, the more people are willing to pay Blue Origin and Virgin to take them into space. The more capital these companies have to develop this technology, to expand this technology, to make it cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. One day it won't cost a hundred million dollars to go into space, it'll cost a hundred thousand dollars to go into space and a lot more people will be able to afford it. And as that becomes more prevalent and more people are willing to pay a hundred thousand to go into space, the price will drop even further to ten thousand. And ultimately, it'll become affordable for many of us to go into space. And this is how advanced technology develops. This is how the first laser printers were fabulously expensive, only corporations could afford them. And as corporations were the first adopters and bought a bunch of them, providing capital, providing incentive to laser printing companies to develop the laser printer, the price of laser printing dropped dramatically. The same thing happened with computers, the same, you know, remember the supercomputer, you remember the mainframes, the many computers the digital had, only big corporations could afford that. But as they developed that, the technology developed, the incentives were created until we got the PC, until we got personal computers. So all of this allows for a dramatic decline in costs and brings that technology to all of us. So this is it's great news. It's a great moment, I think, for private space travel, for innovation, for private enterprise into other planets. And I'm excited by it. It's another step towards the ultimate colonization of Mars. And it would be phenomenal if the colonization of Mars happens by private entrepreneurs, rather than by governments planting flags. But it's by entrepreneurs figuring out how to make money colonizing Mars, how to make money, how to create wealth, how to create value by colonizing Mars. That is the goal. That is the achievement. And of course, by wealth creating by mining by by expanding the human scope of what is possible. I don't know what it's going to look like and I don't know what kind of values are going to be produced and I don't know what kind of wealth is going to produce. But this is great. And this is part of the beauty of what's happening is that people are complaining about billionaires not paying enough taxes. Good because it allows them to keep the wealth so that they can invest in these kind of companies. Government would swander this money, would waste this money, would throw down, you know, flesh it down the toilet onto infrastructure projects of roads to no way, bridges to no way. You know, wait and see what this infrastructure bill is actually got inside of it, all the pork, all the goodies, all the little favors to different districts and different senators and different house members that basically bright them into voting for it. Don't please federal government, don't invest in infrastructure and let private entrepreneurs invest in infrastructure and look what happens. We might go to Mars. So I celebrate the fact that Elon Musk and and and who's been in the news, Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are not paying their quote fish of taxes. They're paying as little taxes as possible. They're keeping the wealth and using that wealth to advance civilization, using that wealth to move us forward. And yes, there are poor people in the world, but you know what? I'd rather see Branson's wealth going to creating jobs, going to moving civilization forward, going to new technologies, new achievements, new value creations. There will ultimately create jobs and lower poverty, ultimately. But in the short run, yeah, the left is going to the left and the right, I think, are going to complain bitterly about, oh, what's the point? We're going to Mars when there's so many problems over here at Earth, we should be confiscating all their wealth and redistributing it. Who the hell are you to decide how an individual should use his wealth, what his value should be? I love it that these guys, all these rich guys are so ambitious when it comes to space travel, ambitious when it comes to how to use their wealth. And it's moving civilization forward with it. Your particular values are not. That's the beauty of a free market. It doesn't have to be yours. It's not democratic. It's not what the majority wants. Mars looks a lot like Utah image, or he says, yeah, maybe, maybe we'll discover life on Mars constitutes. Maybe Mars is the planet Mormons go to when they die. And that's why it looks like Utah. For God's chosen people to choose Utah as the place to live in, particularly the flats and the desert in Utah. So I'm excited about bands and going to space. A week from now, we'll see Jeff Bezos going to space. So here's the question. Here's the question. How is this, how is, how are we going to keep the space travel safe? How are we going to make sure that these spaceships don't blow up? Well, one way to keep it safe, one way to keep it safe is to have the guy who's spending all the billions building these space rockets fly like the first one. Like they don't want to die. So you know that Branson and Bezos have put enough safety protocols into their spaceships to make sure that they don't get killed on their initial flights. So they have a very selfish incentive to make these spaceships, to make these planes, to make these rockets safe. So that's one way reason why they make it safe. What are some other reasons why as we develop this technology, launch people into space? Look, they're probably going to be accidents. One in X number of these rocket spaceships will cause some deaths. We've seen this in the past. We've seen this with NASA. We saw it with the space shuttle. We saw it with Apollo program. There is no such thing as zero accidents. There's no such thing as 100% safety. And this is the transition into the topic of safety, right? So there are always going to be accidents. And when they have accidents on these spacecraft, what are we going to do? We're going to regulate it. This government is going to step in and try to choke this and try to regulate it. And my view is that'll slow down, that'll reduce our ability to go to space. The beauty right now is there's very little regulation. These individuals are taking risks. They know the risks that they're taking. They're calibrating the risk to trade off for themselves based on their own personal values rather than some bureaucrats. And by doing that, they're advancing technology further. They're moving the world further ahead. I mean, it's amazing to me that it's okay for the government to calibrate safety, like in Apollo, because it's for the common good. So if a few people die for the common good, that's okay. We realize you have to take some risks for the common good with public money. We can have a 100% safety record when we do Apollo. But we got to get to the moon because JFK said we got to get to the moon and JFK was speaking for the common good of the American people. So it's okay for a few people die for the common good. But when it's individuals making decisions for themselves about the risk that they're willing to take or not to take, that's unacceptable. Then it's a job of government to make sure that it's 100% safe. Because why? Because their activities are not important. In a sense, their activities are fundamentally immoral because they're just pursuing their own values. They're being selfish. They're being self-interested in pursuing their own values and wanting to go into space and doing it for the fun and the enjoyment of it. There's no common good here. And it's the job of the government to protect us, to protect even people who know, to protect even knowledgeable people, even people who can make assessment of risk for themselves. To how with all that, we, the central planners, we, the philosopher kings will decide for you what is the appropriate risk level you take. So one reason the space travel relatively safe is because the entrepreneurs themselves are flying. The pilots are flying. Pilots, very knowledgeable people, know a lot about the technology, know a lot about these aircrafts, these rockets. They don't want to die. Maybe they push pressure on the company to make it safe. What else? Well, most of these companies don't want to kill their customers, don't want to kill their pilots. Most of the people working in these projects have a sense of pride about them. Now, they're going to be some charlatans and we'll get to charlatans and how to deal with charlatans afterwards. But fundamentally, most people out there don't want to build buildings that collapse. They don't want to build cars that blow up. They don't want to build spacecraft that implode. They have pride in what they do. They have pride in what they create. Now, they all know, and this is really important, they all know there's risk. We all know there's risk. 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