Optimism, Pessimism, F**k That; We're Going To

What Most People Know But Don't Realize They Know Is That The World Is Almost Entirely Solar-powered Already. If The Sun Wasn't There, We'd Be A Frozen Ice Ball At Three Degrees Kelvin, And The Sun Powers The Entire System Of Precipitation. The Whole Ecosystem Is Solar-powered.

What I'm Trying To Do Is, Is To Make A Significant Difference In Space Flight. And Help Make Space Flight Accessible To Almost Anyone.

The First Step Is To Establish That Something Is Possible; Then Probability Will Occur.

It Would Take Six Months To Get To Mars If You Go There Slowly, With Optimal Energy Cost. Then It Would Take Eighteen Months For The Planets To Realign. Then It Would Take Six Months To Get Back, Though I Can See Getting The Travel Time Down To Three Months Pretty Quickly If America Has The Will.

I Want To Make Rockets 100 Times, If Not 1,000 Times Better. The Ultimate Objective Is To Make Humanity A Multiplanet Species. Thirty Years From Now, There'll Be A Base On The Moon And On Mars, And People Will Be Going Back And Forth On Spacex Rockets.