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Q but if these are autonomous ships, well, you can remove things like you don't need beds. You don't need a commissary and you don't need a latrines. And I don't know what percentage of a Corsair or battleship are, uh, There to, uh, support humans on the ship, but I gotta think it's half the mass of it is to, is to keep humans on it. Am I directionally correct?
A I think half is a little, half is a little excessive, but there is a significant percentage of the components, the cost, the labor that actually goes into catering to human beings on board. Um, I would say at a high level, you know, you're really reducing the complexity of the entire product, right? Um, You don't need to worry about a separate electrical system for humans. You don't need to worry about, as we mentioned, doors, bathrooms, stairs, et cetera. Um, and then at the end of the day, you can actually start to end-to-end optimize a lot of different things. So even if you look at Corsair, for example, you know, if you were to buy a commercial twenty-four-foot boat, it's unlikely to go a thousand an article miles. Um, it's also unlikely to drive and have the control authority, um, of the boat that we've built here. Um, because you don't have to, again, you don't have to worry about, you know, A person feeling, uh, you know, you know, taking shock.
AI assessment note: “I think half is a little excessive, but there is a significant percentage”
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Q I'm correct there, then the cost becomes the issue because Building a bunch of aircraft carriers, I keep hearing that supersonics are going to take out all these, uh, aircraft carriers in the 1:15 minutes. Vib, is, is that true what we hear? That, hey, we need smaller ships, faster ships, and what is the cost of something like, you know, the Corsair that you used on this incredible mission?
A Yeah, I would say, you know, at a high level, the goal is mass, right? Um, like, large-scale attributable mass. And, yeah, if an aircraft carrier takes 10 years to build and thirteen billion dollars, like, you're not really achieving that. Um, I think there's always going to be, like, kind of a role and responsibility for, for a craft like that. Um, but ultimately, you're right. Like, if you're big and, and, you know, very obvious to find, and you can find it from space, et cetera, um, you know, it's, it's a real risk. When you reduce, you know, the, the overall cost of, like, just doing things in the ocean, right? Like, that's ultimately where the autonomous piece comes in. Um, you can deploy at scale. You can monitor a larger, larger body of water with less people. Um, and ultimately, what you're, what you're really getting to is removing people from harm's way, right? Um, so what, when we think about designing and kind of thinking through the price points of these things, the comparison to mancraft isn't really, um, necessarily even comparable as you get into larger ships, right? Um, for, for us, it's really a question of, like, what is the cost that you would typically have to use humans for, and how much is that actually being reduced by having a large autonomous fleet?
AI assessment note: “the comparison to mancraft isn't really, um, necessarily even comparable”
