Technology, Connected - Why Mars Missions Need Musicians

Starting point is 00:00:00 All right, I got a question for you. Danny, I got a question for you. What would it take to mod my 1969 Vibrolux amplifier, take it into space and let it work? How would we need to mod, hot rod, that thing, so I can play guitar in space? That more be the best question you've ever asked on thinking on paper. It might actually just work. So analog chips. Yeah, analog devices, ones that don't have any strict, you know, digital systems.

Starting point is 00:00:30 states, which is likely your amplifier, you might very occasionally hear, like, weird distortions if you have, like, a high energy particle hitting certain parts of your amplifier. But I'm almost certain you could take it and it would just, it would just work. Wow. Yeah. Wow. So I'm ready for space. Let's go.

Starting point is 00:00:50 I think you're ready for space. Oh, my gosh. We can suit you up and send you up. But with the guitar work, with the wire, with the guitar work, with the amp would. find that the wire and the guitar, they would all work with it. Yeah, wire is just a piece of copper. It's, you know, no issues there. The only issues you really see are there's tiny integrated circuits where things are very

Starting point is 00:01:12 delicate and sensitive and kind of on a micrometer or nanometer scale. Isn't the only issue that you can't hear anything in space? When you're in space, if you have your helmet off, you're dead anyway. I think we could put you on the lunar habitat. This actually gets us to an interesting point. They've done a lot of research, both on like submarines and kind of Arctic research laboratories. And what the scientists have found when they study group cohesion is one of the most important factors in how well a group is able to survive in an isolated environment is whether or not they have a musician. Wow.

Starting point is 00:01:49 And so I think not only will the guitar survive, but it will have to survive if we're going to build multi-planetary. ships or even starships with humans on board. I'm getting, all right, I'm getting chills right now because this is the most important thing we've ever said. I'm thinking on paper, but in order to succeed moving into space and the galaxy and the universe is you got to have a guitar player run with you or the mission is just effed. That is spectacular.

Starting point is 00:02:21 Yeah. So Elon, if you're listening for those Mars missions, I think Jeremy wants to go. I think we got to send them up. Like, what else would just personally off the top of head? We need musicians. What else? Who else?

Starting point is 00:02:37 Front of the queue. Comedians would be good. I think, uh, definitely. Wild, wild West cowboys. Some folks, um, happy to take some risk and.

Starting point is 00:02:50 Oh, yeah. Uh, people crazy enough to, to, to go to space and probably die in space. to pave the final frontier for the rest of us. All right, so what did we just watch right there?

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Technology, Connected - Why Mars Missions Need Musicians

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