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George Whitesides: “I think some of the decisions that we all made ten years or…”

Featuring: George Whitesides, Democratic | U.S. House, California, District 27

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Published December 7, 2021 | Video Starts at 05:02

I mean, it's what we all dreamed about ten or 20 years ago was to have that. That innovative landscape. And, you know, I think some of the decisions that we all made ten years or so ago help support that. Yeah, it's pretty extraordinary to see, you know, how far we. We've come. And Virgin Galactic started with the birth of, you know, from basically an x prize. (05:02–05:07)

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Asserts that decisions made ten years ago helped support the current innovation in the space industry.

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“NASA pursued a kind of essentially planned model, and there was kind of a given system, and that was what the entire aerospace sector…”
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“When we got there in 2008, we wanted to support trends that were already going on to push more innovation and push more competition into the…”
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“That was crystallized, probably around the decision to pursue an idea for commercially provided crew transport to the international Space…”
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“Ten years later, American space industry and the world space industry are just doing amazing things, right? There's so much innovation in…”
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“By 2010, I think the company was, I think, largely a marketing organization at that point.”
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“And yes, we grew it from, you know, maybe a couple dozen people up to, you know, when I stepped back, it was, you know, over 8900 people.”
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“It was really formally founded in, I guess, 2004, 2005.”
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“What was cool was that we kind of had a chance to do it again with virgin orbit.”
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“When you look at the companies like Virgin Atlantic, they've actually got a really strong operational culture.”
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“Richard Branson deciding relatively early, like, we're not going to give up. We're going to keep doing this because this matters.”
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“And, you know, this is, because, I don't know, other communities as well, is intrinsically a fairly resilient personality type.”
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“I'm somebody who believes strongly in the importance of space, right?”
KittyHawk Investor Series w- George Whitesides | Uploaded December 7, 2021 | 13:59-14:03
“Sending people into space will have a transformative impact on how we perceive the planet and the biggest challenges over the next hundred…”
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“Building hardware that people go in is really hard because you really need to make sure that you have a well thought through quality and…”
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“There's a great movement, or an interesting movement towards essentially vertical insourcing that was really pioneered a lot by Elon and…”
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“When I first arrived at Galactic in 2010, we were just closing a deal with Abu Dhabi to it had it had been delayed and had to go through a…”
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“Richard coming to an agreement with an investor in Abu Dhabi in the heart of the financial crisis for a space tourism company, has probably…”
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“Raising $20 billion without selling anything is kind of challenging, but, you know, raising a billion is totally possible.”
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“Wildfires are obviously important because people's house and lives are at stake, but it's also a huge carbon emitter, 15% to 20%.”
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“We have a better understanding and sense of foreign battle space, like over Afghanistan or somewhere else, than we do when it comes to a…”
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“Every year now, probably for the rest of our lives, there's going to be billions of dollars of damage and probably dozens of people killed…”
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“Actually many orders of magnitude more [people will die] from smoke inhalation [due to wildfires].”
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“A lot of our sort of national security conception is focused on foreign threats, which I don't want to denigrate. Those are very important…”
KittyHawk Investor Series w- George Whitesides | Uploaded December 7, 2021 | 25:40-25:55
“Right now I'm talking with a very large company about doing a Leo small Sac constellation around wildfire detection.”
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“The US government has certain assets, classified assets that could also do something along those lines.”
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“My guess is that the private sector is the fastest way to bring that capability.”
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“All these things are going to take a long time to develop and bring to market and then achieve at scale.”
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“The story of space is a heartening example, something where people knew what needed to happen 20 years ago.”
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“Governments and others maybe can help with is that the customer part of energy is a really challenging one.”
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“We need like systems engineering type thinking for this global problem.”
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