I love this place. You see it in everything I talk about. It is 100 percent serious. I don’t want to go to Mars. I want our descendents to survive. So far as I understand it, @elonmusk is motivated by Mars because he doesn’t see physics as viable. So Mars motivates an engineer. It can be attacked today without a change in Einsteinian physics or cracking the Standard Model. He must find physics enervating as it hasn’t moved. I have the inverted reaction. Everyday I think about physics because I think it is doable. In fact, I think we will occupy Mars from Post Einsteinian physics before we get their with chemical rockets. I cannot explain why we have come to opposite conclusions. I wish we were holding debates and conferences about what we can do to beat the clock as we have billions of eggs in one basket. But it isn’t sci fi. I just spoke about the Dark Energy in a physics department. We are going to attack this one way or the other. And we need more people daring to take this seriously in public. Our top priority on earth is as clear to me as can be: we must do everything in technical fields to restore our indefinite human future that was lost in November of 1952. I honestly don’t know how anyone comes to a different conclusion. And if @elonmusk and I ever debate it out, I will move to his project if he can convince me chemical rockets are the way to go. I would like to think he would do the same if he became convinced that a change in our laws of physics is likely to work first. It’s not about ego. It’s not about science fiction. It is nakedly about one thing: loving humanity and the quest to restore an indefinite future. And traverse the cosmos. If no one laughed when you said that, wouldn’t you agree that this is the most marvelous use of a life? I think you would. Then ignore the laughter. Think about it. I trust you will come to the same conclusion. Thanks!

I’m only now realizing that people thought I was speaking figuratively about all those crazy acronyms: EGO GIN DISC No. No no no. This is it. Rather, it’s only a part of it. And it spares nothing. It is cradle to grave. Seemless. Including ground truth. You will ultimately find that people were paid to fake science. Then reviewers would be induced to gate the debunking science and publish the bad science. Dissenting scientists and researchers would vanish and/or have their work ascribed to others who went along. Journalists would then breathlessly report on the faked science. Funding agencies would take note, then fund the fake science citing the public interest. A giant tax funded “non-governmental” circular Kayfabe machine. All peer reviewed. Laundered. Immaculate