00:46:06 · Aditya Agarwal, Shubhanshu Shukla
[00:46:06] S1: It was... By the way, can we just take a second to talk about how amazing the Artemis two mission was? I mean, like, those images as they kinda swung around the dark side as, like, the Earth first became visible, and the fact that we were able to more or less watch it in real... Like, it's incredible. [00:46:21] S0: Oh, it is it is fantastic. But just just imagine this. You know, when I went to space, it was 400 kilometers from the surface of the earth. These guys... 200,000, was it? 200,000 miles. [00:46:33] S1: Miles, okay 300 [00:46:34] S0: and kilometers away. And when you go on the other side of the moon, you're black, no communication, nothing is possible. You're just on your own floating in a small metal case, you know, three eighty four thousand kilometers away. It is mind boggling, you know, it is just amazing if you just think about it, what was achieved. I think this is the power of human perseverance. You know, we can make that happen if we believe in something. That is what is possible. [00:47:00] S1: And, you know, it's... I mean, to kind of stay on this, like, was telling people that if somebody watched those images and those videos and was still asking why do we send humans to space, they really don't get it. Right? Like, those... They were so powerful in terms of, like, what humanity can do. It was amazing. Alright. Next question. [00:47:20] S0: Oh, boom.
00:47:20 · Shubhanshu Shukla, S3
[00:47:20] S0: Oh, boom. [00:47:34] S3: We build fully autonomous drones and docking solutions where we eliminate human interface... Humans completely out of the ecosystem. I would like to email to the office here. You can check it out what we're building. So that is one. And my question for that is, what goes on in your planning to carry out your experiments in space? Because there'll be a number of experiments that would be there, but how do you choose on which is the best one? And how will you be able to finish that with the exact time frame that you had, maybe like eighteen days you had and you had a number of experiments. What is it takes to do all the planning and what was behind the rules for that planning? So that is my question. There
00:48:11 · Shubhanshu Shukla
[00:48:11] S0: is a huge, huge, huge ecosystem behind enabling this entire thing. The experiments that I took with me, seven Indian experiments, we started working on them at least a year in advance before the mission launch date. So, the entire committees used to say proposals came from all over the country, they were evaluated for the science part of it, how valuable was the science and you have to decide on something. So, the theme that we decided that we wanted all of these experiments to contribute in some way, so that we can enable our own human space missions in the future. So, that was the theme that was decided. Now, once you decide the science, it is also the feasibility of conducting that, enabling that experiment in space, that is the second element of it. So, it is an entire ecosystem. What I can tell you is the astronauts up there, you work on a very, very strict timetable and you have blocks of five minutes. Five minutes is one unit and these can be chunked together, this can be an individual unit, but that is the smallest possible unit. And every five minutes is accounted for, like, you know, throughout the day. So, if you, let's say, don't finish something today and you are using a particular equipment, it becomes a nightmare for the ground team because tomorrow somebody else may be using that equipment at the same time or, you know, there is a lot of deconfliction that has to happen. So there is a huge team that is required to enable this. It is a it is a full blown ecosystem, which is what we have to develop for us right now.
00:49:32 · S2, Shubhanshu Shukla
[00:49:32] S2: Thank you. Thanks. So... Well, thanks. I really love the jacket. In the world of billion dollar valuations and I mean every day there's something coming up, what is your drive and ambition and passion to wake up every day to do something new? [00:49:49] S0: I'm just happy, you know, in life. It is We are alive, we are getting to do what we I think that it is just fascinating in its own way. Gratitude as a virtue, I don't think we practice it enough. I think we need to. We only look at and our brains are designed in this way that we tend to focus on the negatives much more. Life is... [00:50:13] S2: Focusing on the monetary part also. Then monetary becomes a big part of how life works. [00:50:18] S0: Yeah, I'll just ask you. You said billion dollar valuation. How much is a billion dollar? [00:50:22] S2: A lot of money. [00:50:23] S0: A lot of money, right? What would you do with it if you get it today? [00:50:27] S2: Probably go to the moon.
00:50:27 · S2, Shubhanshu Shukla
[00:50:27] S2: Probably go to the moon. [00:50:32] S0: No, my point is yes. I am not, trivializing the financial needs, you know, it is important. Money is important. Today's word, you need money to get by, need money to live a comfortable life. But once you get there, I think beyond that, it is not adding a lot of value to it. The experiences add value and you just have to choose to believe that. That is what I feel. You should work for money, it is important. You have to have things and that is what probably should drive you, but that should not be the only thing that drives you in what you are doing. Like I said, right, you can either make a software, be in the software industry or you can make a hardware. What excites you? If doing something adventurous or doing something which is going to be once in a lifetime experience excites you, go for it. Do it. I think that will be there with you always. So, it has to be measured, it has to be taken care that you have enough money, and once you have that, then do the things that you want to do. That is I feel should be done. You know, rest is totally up to you, what you decide. And if you have the billion dollars, come, we'll go to the moon together.
00:51:47 · Aditya Agarwal, S4, S5
[00:51:47] S1: You know, one thing I'd... As... You know, we have a lot of startups at SPC that have become unicorns. One of the things I've noticed is that it is quite rare that money will give you ambition. Ambition might give you money. Right? But I find it actually very interesting that the people who, at least in... The people who I know personally who are the most well off are generally the people who wake up every day with the most amount of desire to actually do things. And in fact, weirdly enough, then this is the craziest part. I have found that the most happy, but not on a day to day happiness, but more like kind of just like stoked to be alive kinda happy, are the people who, as they get richer, their ambition and hard work actually increases. Because they're like, now I basically do not need to worry about the basics of what my life will basically be. Like, my kids are gonna be fine. I'm gonna be comfortable. I'm gonna be able to do all the things I want. Great. Now I can go build wackier, crazier, more ambitious things. Right? So I find that money is very important. You wanna lead a good life, but it is very rarely the source source of, like, the driving force for ambition. I think that has to come from, frankly, just, like, a level of, like, you know, happy and excited to go build new things. [00:53:13] S4: My daughter, Ila, she's three years old. You are [00:53:16] S5: her favorite astronaut. She was inconsolable that she wouldn't come here with me today. If you have any life advice that you would like to give her, [00:53:25] S4: that would mean a lot.