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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
“Because I worked out with my economics stuff, I worked out the price of transporting mass to the Moon, and it works out to be — in 2015 dollars, it works out to be about 160 2015 dollars to the kilogram.”
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- Andy Weir
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- prediction
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- 20 Dec 2017
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Sure. Now, in your story, there’s a Cantonese meal served at one point in the narrative. A lot of the people are eating this algae gunk, which is cheap and not very tasty, but you can get Cantonese food. How is it that you thought about how much that food would cost? And in 2080, what does a good Cantonese meal on the Moon cost? Well, it would depend on what a good Cantonese meal weighs. Because I worked out with my economics stuff, I worked out the price of transporting mass to the Moon, and it works out to be — in 2015 dollars, it works out to be about 160 2015 dollars to the kilogram. And so, to that end, in Artemis, the kind of de facto monetary unit is called “slugs,” which means soft-landed grams. It’s not a cryptocurrency, though. It’s a thing.…
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