Delian Asparouhov
speaker
4,545 appearances
25 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 13 May
Delian Asparouhov’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, I think just, you know, sort of increase significantly, you know, sort of through room.
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And yeah, there's already, you know, some rumors starting to, you know, you know, come out of um his interest in starting to get, you know, more and more options to the table in terms of how we, you know, sort of get to the moon, uh, beyond what's been, you know, sort of currently contracted.
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And so
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Um, I like that.
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And I like, you know, I don't think we talked about this in some of like our prior, you know, sort of discussions, but I really like this program called Clips um within the lunar program, where basically rather than trying to set a budget and say, here's how I want you to build XYZ thing, the way that they basically pay contractors is um just a flat fee for each kilogram of down mass down to the lunar surface.
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Basically, it's just like, you know, you get something onto the moon, we basically give you, I forget, I think it's like basically $100,000.
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But like
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You get margin on that, you figure out how to do it cheaper, great, that's all on you.
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But that's like to me where NASA should be.
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It's like for these like things that aren't yet really commercial and don't make sense, be the first buyer, establish the market.
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And then that's what kickstarts basically like the commercial, you know, sort of economy side of it.
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Um
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So that's obviously been like a ton of activity.
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Obviously, there's a whole set of SpaceX things, you know, that have been you know sort of happening over the past you know sort of month.
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Yeah, let's
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Yeah, let's
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You know, when I think about like why Elon was so dead set on this, like, you know, call you know, five years ago, ten years ago, um, I think it had more to do with the fact that um
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The moon can be seen as a distraction if our capabilities as a species are limited.
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Because the moon is not the place where you can send up a, you know, sort of permanent colony that is, you know, so sustainable and independent of Earth, right?
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You know, sort of no atmosphere terraforming is impossible.
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