Inspired with Alexa von Tobel
00:45:59 · Dylan Taylor, Alexa von Tobel
[00:45:59] S1: you have an option to watch the YouTube lecture itself. Oh. So one of the... Yeah. [00:46:05] S2: I will be watching that today. The Last Lecture, I will find it. Everybody out there, make sure you find it too. What is one space fact that kind of has blown your mind? [00:46:15] S1: Stick with me on this. If you took something the size of the space shuttle, and you wanted to go to the next star system, Alpha Centauri, and you had ten thousand years to do it, the amount of rocket fuel you would need would weigh more than the mass of the universe. What that shows you is how inefficient chemical rockets are. Wow. Right? Yeah. Chemical rockets are the most inefficient, but it's the only thing we have at this point, until nuclear or something else comes along. But that's one fact that just blows my mind. [00:46:47] S2: That's wild. What is one lesson that you hope your daughters take from your journey to outer space? [00:46:54] S1: Follow your passion. I remember talking to my youngest daughter about this. She was very nervous. She's like, You you could die. I said, Well, Morgan, everyone dies. Very few people actually live passionately their life. So hopefully they took that away. [00:47:10] S2: That's a pretty good one, Dylan. That's a pretty great one, which maybe we'll end on this one, which is, What is your boldest, wildest hope or innovation that you're, like, paying attention to to see if it happens in your lifetime for outer space? Your biggest, most ambitious thought.
00:47:10 · Alexa von Tobel, Dylan Taylor
[00:47:10] S2: That's a pretty good one, Dylan. That's a pretty great one, which maybe we'll end on this one, which is, What is your boldest, wildest hope or innovation that you're, like, paying attention to to see if it happens in your lifetime for outer space? Your biggest, most ambitious thought. [00:47:30] S1: I'm gonna focus on on a fundamental one back to what I said earlier. I want to make sure humans can live and work in space, and ultimately reproduce in space. I'm gonna say the first human born in space, I'm focused on that, creating the infrastructure and things that allow that to happen. [00:47:52] S2: First of all, what a concrete and clear one, and oh my goodness, I'm rooting for you. Last thing I just have to say, Dylan, that I will take away and I will never forget, which is that your heart rate was 56 because you were being catapulted off our planet. That says a lot about who you are and how deeply excited and and actually calmed by that. I can promise you I would not have been 56, but I just can't thank you enough for what you're doing on behalf of humanity. It's very clear that you are going to work and showing up every day to allow us to have a better world. I'm just so grateful we have the Henry Crown Fellowship in common and what a link that that is for both of us, but just we're rooting for you on every level. Thank you so much, Dylan. [00:48:39] S1: Thank you so much, Alexa. Love the conversation. Thank you. [00:48:43] S2: Thank you all so much for tuning in today. If you enjoyed the episode, please read, review, subscribe, and we'll be back.