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19 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
“The moon program, if I wanted to defend it, I would say, to get the satellite belt up, we needed those advances from the government.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 19 Nov 2025
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…Yes, 1957. Yes. The passages about the moral conditions and motivation. It basically says you can’t have a socialist create a supersonic airplane. You need to have a capitalist with real motivation. It’s not literally what it says, but it’s effectively what it says. The moon program, if I wanted to defend it, I would say, to get the satellite belt up, we needed those advances from the government. You needed capital put up front. It did inspire people. The internet, in turn, has relied heavily on the satellite belt. Would it really have been better if we hadn’t had a moon program? We don’t get to see the counterfactual, right?…
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