I was wondering if you could elaborate a little bit and tell us about s- maybe some of the obstacles you're confronting, but also the successes you're having.

Yeah, it's also a matter of getting us back after we get to Mars, and, uh, you know, very, very briefly, a lot of years ago, nearly half a century ago, I, I, here in the center at the University of Houston, space architecture, and we deal with space architectures is, is holistically, how do we, how do we transport people in space? How do we put stuff in a rocket, land it on s- surfaces of the Moon and Mars, bring people back, and so on? And, and I spend m- majority of my waking hours figuring out how to, how to go to Mars and back, and, and, a- and we have s- we have grad students from all over the world, and we're, we're the only program of its kind in the world.

And so it's, it's kind of an interesting, uh, uh, thing to do because I can't think of anything more complicated.

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And, and, and, and so, like, l- a little over four years later you come back and your, your, your beard's grown out and your hair's all messy, and, and you're s- you know, and so on.

And you gotta bring them ...

Y- you gotta bring people back alive.

Uh, and, and, and, and then we tie this in with how do we use AI, and we use AI for all of it, and including how, how you have to, um, coordinate all the systems that have to operate, communications, power systems, uh, landing guidance, all these other things.

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But, but I was thinking about how I, I think there's quite a range of opinions about what it does, and they're all valid, but it depends on how we use it.

And I think some people use it, and some, you know, some, some professions and industries, some use it in, in, in, in very, very different ways.

S- some think of it as a super search engine where you get information, you know, from lots of sources, and they...

And I think that I can understand that it's very valuable, but I think it's only a tiny, a tiny part of what it does.

Uh, and, and I think about how, for example, when...

if I were to, in, uh, I'm in a space, space sort of stuff, I do a lot of very, very advanced planning for lunar and Mars missions and that kind of stuff, and, but it...

Hmm.