Peter Diamandis
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2,868 appearances
10 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6 Jun
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And then hits the dot-com apocalypse in April 2001.
And I'm introduced to Elon as someone who might fund our private moon mission because he just sold PayPal to eBay.
And he didn't do that.
He ended up joining our board at XPRIZE and was part of that adventure for our first private space flight.
But I met Elon just when he was deciding what he was going to do next after PayPal.
And it was, you know,
energy in the world and rockets and uh you know he's extraordinary one of the most brilliant people on the planet um and he went from basically reading college and graduate textbooks in aerospace to building now the dominant mechanism by which humanity gets into space uh uh forever it looks like um and uh
What I've seen continuously is he actually implements everything he says he's going to do.
It may not be in the timeframe he says he's going to do it, but ultimately he's consistently delivered on all of his visions.
And a lot of people get wrong, I think, the fact that he's in it for the money or he's in it for domination.
I think consistently what he's done, he's just looking to solve problems and try and accelerate humanity's potential.
I mean, the idea of mass drivers on the moon goes back to the 80s.
There was a guy named Gerard K. O'Neill at Princeton University who had the Space Studies Institute.
And he actually built the first mass drivers on Earth, right?
Demonstrating the ability to accelerate to lunar escape velocity.
And it was always thought that we were going to... What was he driving at the time?
Yeah, no, it's basically just a shuttle, a carrier that would accelerate in the vacuum of the moon to a lunar escape velocity.
But his original idea was we're going to mine the moon for nickel and iron and oxygen and silicates and build solar power satellites in Earth orbit.
The idea was we build satellites in orbit that gather the sun's energy and beam it down to Earth.
Not sure it made full sense because, you know, solar was demonetizing at a very rapid rate.
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