Q nerding out during your pitch. Um, and, uh, speaking of nerding out, there was this particular moment where you mentioned offhandedly that your tech could get humans to Mars in 30 days. And the investors, they didn't pick up on it, but it caught my attention. Now, NASA predicts we can get humans to Mars in about eight months. How are you going to get them there in 30 days?
A So without going into the detailed physics of it, um, the reason is we have Two things that are married together in this type of spacecraft. First, we have highly efficient engines. So we have 10% of the propellant consumption that you would get with a chemical rocket engine. We're using electric thrusters. And secondly, we have a good thrust to mass ratio. We have a relatively lightweight spacecraft that's able to produce high thrust because we have such high electrical power levels. And those two things are really what we need combined to get to Mars in, um, less than two months. So it's The best technology besides fusion, besides a war drive, and all of those futuristic, uh, concepts to get around, which is really why we're focusing on it.
AI assessment note: “we have highly efficient engines... And secondly, we have a good thrust to mass ratio.”