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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
“Partially because as long as we keep following the rules of the Outer Space Treaty, which I believe we will, there’s no such thing as sovereign territory outside of Earth.”
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- Andy Weir
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yeah. When you read these books by Heinlein, Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson . . . Yeah, they always end up being political thrillers and that’s not what I’m going for. I’m showing the frontier town and the kind of cooperative aspects of human nature. I’m not . . . For some reason, every book about colonizing space ultimately seems to lead to a revolution. Because that’s exciting, right? It’s Star Wars. You know, you’ve got a rebellion, so “yeah, we’ll throw off the yoke,” and it has historical parallels and it’s all awesome like that. But I don’t necessarily think that’s going to be the case. Partially because as long as we keep following the rules of the Outer Space Treaty, which I believe we will, there’s no such thing as sovereign territory outside of Earth. So Artemis is, functionally speaking, an offshore platform. On Earth, do you think we should experiment more with seasteading? Set up sea colonies?…
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