Spatial Emancipation: Recent Episodes
Colin
We go into the technologys, companies and strategies that will facilitate our upcoming expansion into space. As well as the prosperity and liberty that this exponential increase in available materials, space and energy will bring.
After a brief flash of excitement in the 60's, space became a place of disappointment. With aerospace's paradoxically rising costs, and with no change in sight. The vast majority of people assumed that the rocket equation was an unconquerable beast. Forever relegating us to our spherical womb. Making a space a place of daydreams and forgone possibilities but not of practical significance to humanity's progression. This all changed when private companies started to quietly but aggressively develop rocket tech in the early 2000's. Creating radically better systems then iterating them to perfection. Dropping the price and improving the reliability of space transport. This is only the beginning. Now that the free market has been unleashed on the aerospace world and prices have dropped to where far more projects are economically viable. We will see a rapidly accelerating cycle of tech development -> prices dropping -> profits acquired -> capital reinvested in tech development. Propelling us into economic integration with the stars far sooner than you'd think.
Human civilization has hitherto been constrained by the upper bounds of our atmosphere. Forcing us to fight for and be strangled by the limited resources within. The pressing problem of shattering this constraint has been made to seem insurmountable through centralized monopolization and subsequent technological stagnation. This has quietly but rapidly been changing when private players began moving rocket technology forward in the early 2000's. In this podcast, I'm going to dive into what's keeping us on earth, the tech that will allow us to break free, and how it could bring about unprecedented prosperity and liberty. Our spatial emancipation is coming a lot sooner than you think.