Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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I think there's nothing worse than an architect that doesn't live and inhabit their own space.
So yes, I do think I'm bullish on the fact that in my lifetime, I will get a chance to build one of these designs to human occupancy rating and hopefully go myself, yes.
It's an interesting point.
I would say I'm actually really grateful to SpaceX and Blue Origin for what they're doing.
I don't view it so much as oligarchs as I view it as it's like the beginning of commercial air travel in the 1940s and 50s, where initially it was a very expensive technology.
only military activity.
Then it became a commercial activity, but it was a luxury activity.
And then over time, the cost dropped and it became this incredibly empowering opportunity where you and I, as not particularly crazy fancy people, get to hop on a plane and go all around the world.
That is the progression that Elon, and really to give credit to Gwen Shotwell as well at SpaceX and Blue Origin and Bezos and many other companies, that's what they're trying to achieve.
And I think the media has hit on this notion of, oh, it's just the high net worth individuals going to space because they covered Richard Branson going and Bezos going.
But these gentlemen and their companies, if their companies are going to succeed, they have to scale to democratize access to space.
That's where the customers really come from.
So I think in the long term, their incentives are aligned with one of my goals, which is how do we democratize access to space?
For my other mission elements in the nonprofit, where we want to think about, are we being good stewards of the space commons?
How can we make sure that we don't contribute to space debris?
How can we be a little thoughtful about precedent setting on the moon, maybe avoiding strict ownership and competition and potential geopolitical conflict?
I think that there is a role for a nonprofit like us to do interesting thought leadership to try to shape the future of space to be principled and inclusive and exciting so that more people like my dad.
My dad was born in the 50s.
He, when he was a kid, saw the moon landing and was convinced that in his lifetime he would get to go.
We had this interregnum where because we lost funding with the Cold War, we stopped investing in spaces heavily.
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