But let's talk about the good news first. What is the good news? I think you saw it. It was the coolest rocket launch ever. I swear I've never needed a rocket launch as much as I needed that rocket launch. That was the rocket launch of all rocket launches.

If you watched it live, I'm not sure if it has the same impact if you watch it delayed. But knowing there were so many people watching it with the hopes of the nation, I would say, if not the world — mostly the nation — but it was sort of like the hopes of the nation were focused on that moment.

And didn't you feel like we just needed to do something right? We, meaning people in the United States. You know, you and I didn't have anything to do with it. You and I don't get any credit at all. But don't you like that some large entities — in this case SpaceX and NASA and our government — don't you like that these large entities, which are American entities, did something that was so right? Just so right.

It was beyond technology. It actually achieved, I think, art. Now I would say that about a lot of Apple products. You could say the Apple products were technology and they were tools but they were also art. Steve Jobs made it so. And I think Elon Musk is certainly operating at that same level where I don't think he's happy with technology. I don't think he's happy making a product. It feels like he's making art.

And here's the fun thing. Obviously the United States has to get pretty serious about space both government-wise and private company-wise because there's so much national defense purposes up there but also apparently there's just enormous wealth to be mined by whoever can get up there economically.

And if Elon Musk is the first one to be able to mine space or actually colonize space or become the primary transportation in space, do you know how rich he is going to be?

Let me put it in these terms. It is not impossible that someday Elon Musk will, wait for it, own a planet. Because what are the rules about who owns a planet? If you had a private company that was the first one to get to a planet, do you get to keep it? Does anybody know what the rules are for that?

If Elon Musk, let's say, is 90 years old and going strong because he's using the blood of young children or something so he's staying young, but he's 90 years old and by now he's probably a trillionaire just by the normal compounding of his money and his investments. But by the age of 90 he's created such an efficient private enterprise in space that he could actually send a rocket out with enough technology on it to colonize a planet even without people on it.

So perhaps we could operate things from a distance. We could send some robots by rocket. The robots could build some kind of a structure and they can do some geo-shaping and turn the planet into a proper little planet that humans can someday operate. I think, honest to God, I think Elon Musk is going to be the first human to own his own planet. He might not ever be physically on that planet. There's a distance. But I think he's gonna own a planet someday.

Yeah, I don't think you can own the moon. I don't know what the law is on that but I don't think you could own it anyway.

So that was inspiring.