Why space tourism is the customer that pulls the industry
From Moon Hotel Trojan Horse: 1st Bricks of a Type III Kardashev Civilization on Deeptech Decoded, with Skyler Chan.
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⁓ Companies, their success is hinged upon if they can win a government contract. But with an LTV, mean, that could also be reforged as an ATV for guests. ⁓ I didn't mention this earlier, ⁓ but the core, if you look at the space industry, it's really probably by two pillars, governments and billionaire backed companies. with governments, a lot of startups who try to sell get trapped in the valley of death, quote unquote. And with billionaire backed companies.
Yeah.
It's hard to really, you know, again, they want to frantically integrate like where you slide into the startup. It's, hard. Um, I look at the moon, you've got a lot of groups who are trying to do engineering services. The problem is who's the real customer, right? You have to make so many people want, and there's no people in the equation. The people, you know, maybe maybe we're making something that is cool. You know, engineering and sexy and all that, but like no one's there. And so.
Mm. Okay.
What we're doing is we're using space tourism, which has already proven market. Go to the moon, build the first hotel on the moon. And then it's obvious, well, now we need like, robots. Now we need communications. Now we need power to power the hotel. So I think that is probably why we've ⁓ received the response that we have.
But I think also this, you mentioned earlier either on your white paper or one of your interviews that it looks like something so ⁓ out of mind, but at the same time, if you think about it, everything that advanced the humanity came from these very other issues cause like this extremely seems like impossible and then they became the reality. like Ellen Moss is one of the living examples that showed us.
Ahem.
Like from even scratch you can start and then build things one step at a time. And how would that, that's why that actually, always say, deep tech is relevant to anyone. It's not just for the engineers, for the nerds or for the people who think sci-fi, near sci-fi realm, but rather it actually affects your life too. Maybe indirectly, but in the end it touches you. And then the part that I like most, you started showing this very tangible way. Then now you're taking this.
