Will Marshall
speaker
244 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And we sort of did modeling and figured out that by around cost of launch coming to $200 to $300 a kilogram, it would just be cheaper.
Purely on cost grounds, it would be cheaper to put them in orbit than to put them on the ground.
And I remember Sergey and Larry saying to me, well,
Let's come back in about 2030 when we had predicted that launch costs would come down to there and start there.
I said, no, let's come back five years before that because this is going to take a little bit of time to actually build these technologies, the thermal technology and other things.
And that's exactly what happened.
So last year, Google came back to us and said, let's start this project.
And so it's an early days project.
It's a moonshot, as they call it, a bit like Waymo or quantum computing.
which turned out to be quite successful.
It's an ambitious project, but ultimately, I think it's inevitable that within a 10-ish year timeframe, most computers being built on the earth will be going to space.
I actually think not only is it going to be economically cheaper,
but it's going to be more sustainable.
Earth's life is so precious.
It's incredible.
But yet we're whittling away a lot of it.
We're doing deforestation for lithium, for cows, for whatever we're doing it.
And we need to put our energy intensive infrastructure into orbit if we can to not have a collision course with the biodiversity on the planet as
Jeff Bezos has said we need to zone the Earth, rural and light urban, and put intensive stuff in orbit where there's lots of energy and we don't conflict with that precious biodiversity.
Roughly the latter.
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