On Space

I found it a captivating experience watching the Moon up close, but the most interesting part was watching Earth turn from a small flashy dot into this large bluish sphere on the journey back. Thank you NASA, and sorry dear flat earth society with supporters from all around the globe - this was a freaking awesome experience to watch, even from a small screen!

On the other hand, there's also something really beautiful and joyful in watching Elon's rockets take off and reach orbit in a couple minutes. Those live streams give me chills every time I see them. Thank you Elon and the smartest humans on Earth that make this possible

That being said, I think Space is the next big thing, along with longevity. Pretty obvious to a few, very complex and impossible to others. You are born at a place, in a home, but you were never meant to stay there forever. You were meant to explore, to grow, to move around.

Humanity was born on Earth, and I don't think we were meant to stay here forever either. I know it's quite controversial that when some people don't have access to food or clean air to breathe, we aim for the stars, but honestly, I think it was always going to happen either way. We are an intelligent species, we have always been explorers of new things, innovators, and I find it difficult to imagine us staying on a single planet forever. Even if this takes a couple hundred years, I think it would be best if we embraced it, enjoyed the show given by Elon and Co., and for those who can, contributed to it.

Enough with the late night philosophies, we have a long way to go, so gotta start somewhere.

With AI being in full swing nowdays, I think it will unlock HUGE possibilities in exploring space and building space infrastructure.

I would still make a simple bet without too much math and computation: the AI systems that DO will continue to evolve rapidly (probably beyond our wildest imagination pretty soon), and we will keep wanting more intelligence, which needs processing power and communications, which need energy. What's a better place to look for an enormous amount of energy, given to us by the creator, than the Sun? Infrastructure in space that can capture more of that energy seems like a pretty compelling direction to me. I don't discuss whether it's doable or not - everything is doable, like getting it there, keeping it working and dealing with the heat and radiation and emptiness of space, but it's gotta start somewhere. And along the way we get the bases on the Moon, on Mars, and maybe launch a real interstellar search to bring Matt Damon home in case he gets stranded somewhere.

Even though there are lots of private and public companies working in this space, one name has everything we need. It makes the progress, makes the headlines, has the smartest people in the world, and has the experience of actually building and operating these things. SpaceX. Engines, rockets, manufacturing, launches, communications, all being developed and operated within the same company. A vertically integrated beauty. I think that matters quite a lot when you are trying to make the entire thing work better and cheaper.

I wouldn't say SpaceX is the only company worth looking at. There are obviously others doing interesting things, like Firefly, Rocket Lab and so on. But I would bet on SpaceX being the biggest player in what comes next, and on the opportunity becoming much larger pretty soon. In three to five years, or even sooner. Maybe that sounds overly optimistic, but watching something this difficult get better and better makes it quite hard for me to bet against it.

Thanks for reading!