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Published · transcript-backedAndy Weir: prediction
20 Dec 2017 Conversations with Tyler Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
“I think that’s how we will reach a point where we end up with a booming space industry, and I think that’s how the price to low Earth orbit will eventually be driven down far enough that middle-class people can afford it.”
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- Andy Weir
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Even on Earth, it can be efficient to drink your recycled urine, right? So surely on the Moon, that’s likely to be the case. What do you think of Elon Musk and other private space efforts? I think private space and commercial space industries like that are the way forward. I think that’s how we will reach a point where we end up with a booming space industry, and I think that’s how the price to low Earth orbit will eventually be driven down far enough that middle-class people can afford it. And once we reach that magic point, then there’ll be a huge space boom. It’ll become a multitrillion-dollar industry, like the commercial airline industry. Here’s a question from a reader: quote, “I would love to hear his thoughts on NASA’s Office of Planetary [Protection], the guys who try to keep our organisms from ‘infecting’ other planets. Sterilizing everything that we send to other worlds is very expensive and it might be important or it might not.” What’s your take?…
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