Ep 98 | I Want to Build a Moon Base | Guest: Robert Zubrin
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We've been to the moon a couple of times to collect rocks and go golfing, but what benefits would we get from building a permanent colony? Robert Zubrin is the author of "The Case for Space," founder of the Mars Society, and president of Pioneer Astronautics. He joins Heaton to talk about how to build a moon base and how to get the private sector to do it cheap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host |
| 0:15.1 | Andrew Heaton and I really like your hat. Not a lot of people would have |
| 0:19.4 | literal electric neon on a hat, you do and it's one of the many reasons that were friends and you're a snappy dresser. |
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| 0:34.0 | If you're like most people, you probably get mass-produced factory electricity at your house. |
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| 1:45.6 | Did you know pillows expire? |
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