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niversity. But if you were, let's say, a scientist and you learned everything from the other scientists who lived where you live because you'd have some association with them and then you moved, you'd get a whole new bunch of scientists and that could take you to another level. But I would extend this from Nobel scientists to just ordinary creative people trying to create because one of the thing…

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er gesture of respect.

And what I didn't know, I thought it was just going to be the crown prince and Trump, but apparently this is an enormous event with the top billionaires, at least the top American billionaires from BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR, Qualcomm, IBM. So you're getting the richest people in the world.

But you're also getting, so these are people who are going to be at the same lunch, right? If you know the drama involved in these personalities, it's really funny that the same people, this group of people, will be at the same table for lunch: Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Sam Altman, and Reid Hoffman. Now there'll be lots of other people there, but I'd love to see the seating chart.

Can you imagine if they put Elon Musk between Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman? If you don't know the background, Elon Musk has a little bit of friction with those two guys. A little bit of friction. And even Larry Fink, you know, was the main DEI guy and ESG guy for a long time. So even he couldn't necessarily sit next to Elon Musk. So I think there's a possibility of a fistfight.

But the other thing that I'm wondering is apparently the people who were smart say that this kind of a trip is always associated with pre-arranged deliverables, meaning that the deals have already been made but they'll just be sort of announced and make it look like it was because of the trip. Yeah, I guess indirectly it is because of the trip.

But when you have this many billionaires and CEOs, I feel like the quantity of potential deals might be pretty tremendous. And I'm guessing that Saudi Arabia will be the source of the money and maybe a lot of these people who are showing up think that they will be the beneficiaries of some of that flowing money.

So Trump has said something like bringing a trillion dollars of investment back. I think that might happen. He might come back with a trillion dollars worth of investments.

Well, in other news, you know Elon Musk has the Boring Company. That's that big machine that digs tunnels and they just upgraded it so it doesn't need a person on the inside. It's a total robot tunnel digger and they finally achieved what they call ZPIT, zero people in tunnel. So it's just a robot tunnel digger.

Now I would like to see two things. One, I'd like to see those tunnels be about five times bigger because they're still tiny little tunnels. I don't know if I'd want to be inside one of those tunnels if I knew I were inside it. The other is I'd love to see some technology for digging straight down. It's impressive that this tunnel digger can go from left to right. But wouldn't it be great if you could find some way to economically dig far enough that you could get to geothermal power?

If you go down deep enough, you have unlimited energy because of the geothermal situation. It would be differe

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nt everywhere, you know, how far you'd have to dig and how hard it would be. But wouldn't it be amazing to have something along the lines of the Boring Company? It would be all different technology because it would be drilling, not tunneling. But that would make everything work. You would have unlimited energy and it would be clean. Everybody would be happy with it. All you need is technology to…

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