Speaker 1: Around.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. Let's go
Speaker 2: to line number two. Alexi, you've been very patient. If
Speaker 2: you're with us, how are you this morning your commentary.
Speaker 1: Yes, good morning, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to speak to
Speaker 1: both of you. My impression is with the space program,
Speaker 1: especially here in the United States, it is predominated by
Speaker 1: government influence. The government, no doubt has military ambitions which
Speaker 1: they want to perfect and create, so that is part
Speaker 1: of the driving impetus to supply money to NASA and
Speaker 1: the space program. But interesting, you have about what twelve
Speaker 1: different countries that have the capability to put amend and
Speaker 1: perhaps some colony, some some structures on the Moon, and
Speaker 1: I think that would be the wisest thing to pursue
Speaker 1: over the next decade or so because because you know why,
Speaker 1: because if you have all these colonies, you're rush at China, India, Parents, England,
Speaker 1: the United States. So it's all on the moon. Number one.
Speaker 1: It builds an international rapport between the occupants of the stations.
Speaker 1: They're all in the same place at the same time,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and they are free from the petty
Speaker 1: influences and demands of the dictators such as Putin and
Speaker 1: g so they can act more independently, and it might
Speaker 1: be a good basis for developing a high degree of
Speaker 1: international friendship and working together. Are scaring you have not
Speaker 1: seen before?
Speaker 2: Sounds positive? A Lookxy, I appreciate that. But Rod, you're
Speaker 2: more the space expert on the subject of the international
Speaker 2: space cooperation And yeah, well maybe we don't hear enough
Speaker 2: about the Internet efforts of what people are doing around
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: Well, gosh, how many more hours do we have? So
Speaker 3: I generally agree, although the US in terms of military
Speaker 3: spending on space actually fell far behind in relative terms
Speaker 3: relative their economies, both Russia and China for a number
Speaker 3: of years, and we only recently started spending more or
Speaker 3: what some people think we should be spending because primarily
Speaker 3: of the Chinese it was perceived as a Chinese threat.
Speaker 3: But in terms of humans on the Moon and elsewhere
Speaker 3: in space, you know, the International Space Station has really
Speaker 3: been a beacon of cooperation, as I think you were
Speaker 3: alluding to. Well, I see, especially with the United States
Speaker 3: and Russia. So regardless of our problems on the ground,
Speaker 3: whether it be crimea Ukraine, whatever, the cruise up there
Speaker 3: continued to get along.
Speaker 1: Now they can.
Speaker 3: Always you know, if they get a little grumpy, they
Speaker 3: can always retreat to the Russian side of the American
Speaker 3: side and close a hatch. You know, they do have
Speaker 3: two different habitats, but they have been getting along remarkably well,
Speaker 3: and the mission controls on the ground, which we often
Speaker 3: don't think too much about, have been continuing to work
Speaker 3: together very well. There are still visits back and forth
Speaker 3: the Americans to Star City and Russia and vice versa
Speaker 3: for training and cooperation. So it's just the governments that
Speaker 3: are having the trouble getting along. But I think there
Speaker 3: is hope. And the other thing I'd add is a
Speaker 3: lot of people who study this stuff feel that the
Speaker 3: Antarctic model is a very good one, where you have
Speaker 3: a number of international settlements around the perimeter of the
Speaker 3: Antarctic continent with this US base at the South Pole,
Speaker 3: and they collect there to do research and work together,
Speaker 3: and then when their project is done or when they
Speaker 3: want to take a break, they go back to their
Speaker 3: own group of people and can observe their own customs
Speaker 3: and their own food and speak their own language.
Speaker 1: And so forth.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people think, what's really forged that
Speaker 3: besides just the idea of international cooperation is the fact
Speaker 3: that if you're going to survive down there or on
Speaker 3: the moon, you better get along because you're going to
Speaker 3: need each other at some point.
Speaker 2: It's a good test.
Speaker 3: Bet.
Speaker 2: I agree with you entirely