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Matt Gialich

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1659 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

Right on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

Will you be able to reuse these or rebuild them?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

Absolutely not.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

I know we have no plans to reuse them.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

I mean, we're going to crash land them, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

Like keeping them light, keeping them cheap is pretty important to us at this point in time.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

And the economic use case for satellites at that scale that can be reusable is extremely difficult to make work, I think, if not impossible.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

I think when you start looking at Starship level reusability and these kind of massive structures, sure, you can talk about massive reusability when you're putting a lot of capex into one of these projects.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

The reality is, man, I'm not Elon Musk.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

I don't have, you know, $50 billion behind me I can just dump into one of these.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

I have to think really economical at the beginning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

And, like, part of this is having the economic constraint as well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

If we had unlimited money, we know how to mine an asteroid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

It's called Osiris-Rex.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

It costs $1.2 billion.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

You know, it's really easy to iterate to that works, that's a solution.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

It's not an economical business though.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

We have to think cheap.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

We have to think light.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#226 Matt Gialich - Debunking Aliens in the Ocean, Mining Asteroids and Black Holes

And we have to make those trades all the time of like cost is in every trade study we do.