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Property Rights On Mars

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I don’t know if it will be webcast, but I’m going to be giving a talk tomorrow morning in Pasadena, as part of the final plenary of the Mars Society meeting.

[Update Sunday afternoon]

I think the talk went OK. The crowd was smaller than I expected; I think that the Mars conference in DC has pulled a lot of the audience that Bob used to get for his Mars Society meetings. I called people in the audience “mutant weirdos,” and made a lawyer joke.

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  1. Cool. Looks like Rand is scheduled for 10:00am Sunday morning. Being a plenary session, it should be live streamed. (Just follow the Live Webcast link from the Mars Society website.)

    I was just “tuning in” in advance of the 09:30am Saturday presentation by Paul Wooster “SpaceX’s plans for Mars” (hoping for some news), and see that audio & video are pretty bad. (Sounds echoey, and is sufficiently out of focus that I can’t tell the difference between 144p and 720p.) Paying attention, I can make out most of what is said.

    1. Unfortunately, Paul Wooster’s presentation had no new information, just rehashing what we already knew about SpaceX’s BFR program. Several of his questioners tried to extract news, but his answers just fell back to what has previously been released. For example (paraphrasing) Q: We’ve heard that SpaceX will be testing the upper stage in Texas as soon as next year. Can you tell us anything about the progress? A: Yes, we want to focus on the ship portion first, and will be doing hop test in south Texas.

      He repeated the 2012 “aspirational date” for two cargo missions to Mars, but given that absolutely no new information was provided, I don’t consider that an indication of news that they are on schedule so much as just a repeat of Musk’s 2017 IAC timeline.

        1. Oops, wrong decade! (No time machine, but I seem to be lost in time.)

          I’d hoped that he might break some good news, but it was as if he was instructed to reveal nothing new.

  2. Sunday was always kinda quiet at MS conventions. I only made one when I wasn’t living in the host city. Otherwise, I had to start traveling.

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