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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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

That's something only NASA could do.

And I think eventually we have to free that up.

I think this is a really important question for NASA.

And part of what they have done is kind of hybrid themselves into this new domain for private enterprise by doing public-private partnership.

So VAST and Axiom, they're still working closely with NASA because NASA has these incredible standards for the safety of human spaceflight.

So I think what we're hoping to see in the space industry is that we don't just toss out everything that NASA learned.

We take the best of what NASA learned, and we take some of the maybe better agility that a commercial company would have, and we try to marry the two together.

It doesn't mean that there won't be the exact risks that you said, but it means that we're trying our best to get the best of both worlds into this next phase.

In that context.

And that's a great metaphor, too, because that inflection moment that we saw with aviation where the cost started coming down, more people started flying.

It went from you dress up to go into first class, and it was a luxury thing to now.

Sweatpants.

To sweatpants.

pants I think we will eventually see sweatpants to moon you know we will eventually see just go in your pajamas you go to the supermarket in your pajamas and your Crocs and then you just go to space Crocs in space Crocs in space I'm more Birkenstocks girl but yeah we have to we can take Crocs in space

Yeah.

You have hit on the crux of the tension around this idea of AI data centers in space.

Take one step back and say, yes, we should be figuring out how to do big infrastructure in space and off-world, just like we were talking about at the beginning of the show.

For data centers in particular, what we think is going to have to happen is use a self-assembled approach like Tesserae to handle that.

Because if you have a traditional data center, you have these little volcanoes of heat in the servers.

You have to pipe out the heat via conduction

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