bother." Have you ever seen that in your entire life? He just looks at her and goes, "Ah, don't bother."

But at the same time, the six foot distance thing apparently has been removed from my grocery store. It looks like they're going to the three foot kind of situation, which you sort of do automatically because your cart's in the way. So that, I suppose, I was a humble brag, and transparently so. But it was so funny to see that hypothesis tested.

Do you know how long I would have gotten away maskless? I wouldn't have gotten past the entry. I would have walked past the chips and somebody said, "Hold on, you need to cover up a lot of that. And not just for COVID either."

All right. Elon Musk is getting some heat from Bernie Sanders and others because he tweeted about collecting resources to get humanity to the stars. And people said, "What about all the people here on earth who need help? What about them?" Bernie Sanders says, "Shouldn't you be helping the people right here on earth instead of using all these resources to go to Mars?"

And so I was prompted to do a little informal survey, the non-scientific type, on Twitter. I asked people, "Where do billionaires get their money? Do they, choice A, steal it from the poor?" Because you know if you want money, the poor is where you go. Or did they create it out of nothing? Well, nothing is created out of nothing as far as we know, but it's closer to that, right?

Why is it that Bernie deserves some of that money that Elon Musk created out of nothing? I don't know what that argument is. But I would make the following argument. Colonizing space is the only way that we stay non-Chinese, because China is going to colonize space if we don't get there first and have a controlling presence in space. Whoever owns space owns Earth, because if you have the high ground you militarily basically control Earth.

And I don't know if that's a hundred years from now, but why would you let that happen? If the United States could keep technical supremacy and make sure that we don't lose space, that might be the most important thing that's happening right now.

I would guess that what Elon is doing, in terms of the value to humanity for the next 10 million years, what Elon is doing is a million times more important than everything Bernie has ever done. It's not even close in terms of service to humanity. These two are not on the same plane.

Bernie's service to humanity is pretty good actually. I would rank him as a productive member of society, certainly in terms of moving the arguments and changing how we think about things. But in terms of doing actual stuff that got done, I think Musk is the big winner there.

The other one, Andres Backhaus tweeted that colonizing Mars might be the best way to protect Earth in case somebody like Bernie Sanders ever becomes president. And Andres cleverly says, "As long as we keep all the ships, the colonization