We were searching for a way to use the land for training without using military construction money while they were looking to implement an anti-terrorism center.

You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars? Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner and outer, together, as one race.

Land is so incredibly expensive. We do need money. I think it's really important as we continue to develop to save pockets where we can still come and sit in peace.

It's a wash. Plus, there are so many other benefits such as the money farmers get from leasing their land for windmills.

I'm putting my money where my mouth is. If I don't pay, they take the land. What more can I do?

They didn't want all their money tied up in land. We're buying the surplus from them and what we can buy around it.