"Today, we make history again. We have a history of making history.โ
@SpaceX President & COO @Gwynne_Shotwell shares the $SPCX story from the @NasdaqExchange podium.
Yesterday @SpaceX celebrated the historic IPO at Nasdaq. While my wonderful children, Elon, @kimbal and @ToscaMusk were having a wonderful time at Starbase, I was at @Nasdaq in New York City. Much happiness around the world. #SPCX
Itโs always sunny in space ๐๐
SpaceX just landed a Falcon 9 booster, and Elon Musk's live reaction was more human than anyone expected.
"It's standing up. It's coming in. It sounded like an explosion. Look at this. Look at this. It's just sitting there. Holy smokes, man."
Elon Musk revealed why he keeps working despite of his $800 billion net worth:
1. As a teenager, Musk had a full existential crisis trying to figure out the meaning of life. Religious texts did not convince him. So he turned to philosophy. Reading Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as a depressed teenager, he says, was a terrible idea.
2. Then he read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and something shifted. Douglas Adams argued the real problem is not finding the answer to life. It is figuring out the right questions to ask in the first place.
3. In the book, Earth is a giant computer built to answer the meaning of life. It spends millions of years computing and delivers its answer. The answer is 42. The joke is that nobody knows what the question was.
4. That idea never left Musk. The universe is the answer. We just do not know what question it is answering. And to figure out the right question, you need a much bigger and more expansive consciousness than we currently have.
5. The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.
6. This is why he wants more humans. More digital intelligence. More biological and artificial consciousness working together. Not for economic growth. Not for power. To collectively get better at asking the right questions.
7. This is why Mars matters to him. Not for the adventure. Not for the achievement. A single planet species is a single point of failure for consciousness itself. If something wipes out Earth, the question never gets asked.
8. "The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell is going on."
9. Everything he is building, the rockets, the AI, the robots, comes back to this one idea. He is not trying to get rich. He is trying to keep the candle of consciousness alive long enough to understand why it exists.
10. With $800 billion he could stop tomorrow. He does not stop because to him stopping would mean giving up on the only question that ever actually mattered. What is this all for and what are we supposed to be asking?