
Want me to tell you how? Turns out it's all a question of economics. Or we could be on our way to populating the Galaxy. We could all choke to death, be extinct in a hundred years. You don't need me to stand here and tell you that. Tonight I want to tell you why I care so much about this issue that I devoted my life toil.

I've bored you with that often enough already, right? So tonight I want to look a little farther out. In fact, in the past I've tried to get you to pay for such things. You know I've campaigned for, among other things, private mining expeditions to the asteroids.

To two space cadets: My nephew, James Baxter Kent Joosten, NASA
