Moon Base Economics
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
5 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Zach Weinersmith is the author of “A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?”
He joins to discuss the legal and economic feasibility of building settlements on Mars or the Moon
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Robert Zubrin: Want to Build a Moon Base
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-98-i-want-to-build-a-moon-base-guest-robert-zubrin/id1439837349?i=1000434628317
Robert Zubrin on Mars
https://alienating.libsyn.com/turns-out-were-all-probably-martians
How to Make Money on Mars
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alienating-the-audience/id1488171922?i=1000470956981
Lori Garber: Space Billionaires vs Space Bureucrats
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/space-bureaucrats-vs-space-billionaires
Transcript
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| 0:20.5 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits, problem solvers, and astronauts, space entrepreneurs, and frontiersmen and Women of the Great Beyond. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and fun fact, |
| 0:28.0 | I turned 40 this week. |
| 0:31.0 | Don't worry, I still look 45 and I sound about 52 according to people that |
| 0:37.0 | have met me for the first time but 40 happy birthday me and to celebrate my birthday, we today are going to geek out so hard, so amazingly hard on |
| 0:50.0 | this episode. |
| 0:51.0 | This is my birthday present to myself. I am going to bring on |
| 0:54.3 | Zach Wienersmith to talk about the economics and laws of building a moon base |
| 1:00.1 | or a Martian colony and space industry in general. |
| 1:05.2 | This is a wonky economics, law, |
| 1:09.8 | and space episode. |
| 1:11.6 | By the end of today's show you will know not only stuff about the |
| 1:15.5 | outer space treaty which actively governs outer space you will know an astonishing |
| 1:20.4 | amount of weird scenarios that I lobbed at this guy who totally played ball with me. |
| 1:25.8 | I ask him stuff like, what if Elon Musk builds a spaceship in El Salvador? |
| 1:29.5 | What if Newt Gingrich gets elected president and tries to build a fort on the moon? If they put a elected president and tries to build a fort on the moon. |
| 1:34.0 | If they put a musk on the moon, what happens? |
| 1:36.2 | Can McDonald's? |
| 1:37.2 | Could it build a battleship? |
| 1:38.2 | I ask a bunch of random stuff. |
| 1:40.4 | I promise you, this is a fun fun informative episode for everybody and in particular if you like space stuff |
| 1:49.2 | This episode is for you and I add, my favorite guests are smart people who I can learn from who will play with me. |
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