Learning to fly at Comox Air Force Base at 16

So Skylar, actually, ⁓ you pick something. Like normally there are heart problems, but there are also heart problems. Like you pick something on civilization level. First, maybe like why don't we try to go back to the time and where you started to grow with this idea and then you said, I cannot not work on this. Like this needs to be my...

Mm-hmm. Yeah, thanks for having me again, Neil. And yeah, happy to share the story. yeah, for me, like it was actually pretty natural. ⁓ I've always wanted to become an astronaut since I was three growing up. I was very obsessed with space like most kids, but that never really went away. ⁓ I decided that I wanted to go down the road of becoming an astronaut. And so I basically poured everything I could into trying to, you know.

Thank you.

build myself up towards that career. And so when I was 16, I had the opportunity to learn how to fly aircraft, Comox Air Force Base, really fun experience. But coming back from the program, I did some reflection and I realized like, hey, it felt, you know, was going deep into like, what is like the most meaningful thing that one could do in our generation, right? In this moment of human history. And I thought to myself, well, Okay, this is a very traditional or not traditional very like, hey, this person did it and I have to follow his path. But that's like really not how I guess, achieving the greats really works where you have to kind of your own path and really affect the most amount of positive change in the world. I think it comes down to enabling everybody to experience something right. And so I realized like, okay, well, I wouldn't really be fulfilled if I just went up there and you know, came back down like I feel like we all we want to move humans to the moon and Mars. I felt like a calling to that. We have to make humanity interplanetary. And keep in mind this is in high school. And I was like, well, it seems like the world is heading towards an exciting future, right? Where transportation is going to be solved at some point. And I was watching the Falcon rockets. I was watching the developments with, I remember when NASA Mars Rover landed. just like, there's a lot of kinds of stuff that was happening, right? And so ⁓ pretty optimistic and inspired kid, I was like, well, I felt that the most meaningful thing to work on is to make humanity interplanetary, you know, if I have time. And so I went down the list through, you know, I kind of like sketched it. I was trying to figure out like, what are the problems that haven't been solved? Yeah. And so it is still down to the