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apparently it's not. This has something to do with shooting down incoming missiles. But why did SpaceX get the contract and nobody else did? They're the only ones who can do it. Now, that's what I call useful. How many of you can shoot down 600 incoming missiles at the same time? You? No. You? Anybody? And then like Elon, it's like, well, I can do that. How many? 600. Same time. Yeah, I could prob…

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has 10,000 satellites and the smartest people you're ever going to see. So I feel like they can knock this off fairly quickly. We'll see. We have an Elon and you don't.

So according to Interesting Engineering, we may be nearing what they call the end of brain surgery. They're working on, I guess we're kind of close to these injectable chips that will self-implant to treat brain disease safely. So basically you just give somebody a shot and these tiny little programmed whatever they are will find their way to your brain. They can even pass the blood-brain barrier and it can find on its own, when I say on its own it's programmed to do it, to the right part of the brain and then it just inserts itself into that part of the brain and apparently it's wrapped in some kind of organic wrapper so that it's not rejected. So it's part you, the organic wrapper part, and it's part human, whatever it is, and part machine. So the human part keeps it from being rejected totally, and the machine part does the cool stuff.

I don't know. Is that going to work? Do you think you were born into the time that you could get a shot in your arm like from a needle a

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nd it will fix your brain? Because little robots basically would go in there and just fix it. Does that sound like something that's going to happen in your lifetime? It really doesn't. I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but it doesn't sound like something that's going to happen. That sounds pretty aspirational. Well, as you know, California had this thing called Prop 50 that passed by a…

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