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Published · transcript-backedAndy Weir: evaluation
20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
“Because one of the main things that gets in the way of private space exploration right now isn’t technology anymore, it’s policy.”
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- Andy Weir
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- evaluation
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Ghana would be a terrible idea, right? Who would do it in Ghana? [laughs] Well, that was another candidate I thought of because it’s also on the equator. But . . . And then the other thing they had, that they realized they could do, is they could offer policy. So I had the minister of economics for Kenya come up with this plan to draw the space industry into Kenya. And she basically made sure that Kenya had the most unbelievably business-friendly laws for the space industry, special rules. Because one of the main things that gets in the way of private space exploration right now isn’t technology anymore, it’s policy. Sure. Travel of all kinds. Try commuting into Washington, DC.…
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