#Bestof2022: 2/2: #HotelMars: Asteroid mining and Off Planet colonies and space stations. Daniel Suarez, David Livingston
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh great! The Guardian is now delivering newspapers all over the UK to places like Manchester, Edinburgh and many more. |
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| 0:56.8 | The preceding may contain forward-looking statements |
| 0:58.8 | which may not be realized. I'm John Batsch, Hotel Mars, David Livingston, Dr. Space, the Space Show, and we're very pleased to be speaking with Daniel Suarez, a novelist of science that for now is taking what we have |
| 1:18.2 | here on Earth in hardware and software and projecting them into Earth orbit, Cis Lunar Orbit, the solar system for |
| 1:26.8 | prosperity. Prosperity of course brings competition. We've talked about the |
| 1:31.2 | hardware, the spin gravity Station, the SPS Alpha Mark 3 solar power satellite, |
| 1:37.0 | a mining of Regolith, the software. |
| 1:40.0 | We have the Outer Space Treaty, which is a product of the Cold War, |
| 1:42.8 | in 1967. We have the Moon Treaty, and now we have the Artemis Accords. |
| 1:47.8 | None of these, to my knowledge, exactly fit the circumstances that Daniel is very convincingly presenting. |
| 1:54.8 | Private enterprise, in competition with state enterprise, that would be the |
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