Elon Musk: “A single human cannot make a spaceship, but with a…”

“But bacteria are not going to produce a spaceship, for example, but humans can. So I think there's something qualitatively different that also happens when there's a collection of humans. In fact, safe to say that A single human cannot make a spaceship, but with a collection of humans, we can make spaceships. So there's something obviously qualitatively different about a collection of humans. In fact, it would be impossible for me to learn all of the areas of expertise.” (16:18–16:25)

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