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Mentioned in 22 episodes

The moon is a harsh mistress

Book • 1965

Robert A. Heinlein

Mentioned by

Alex Wissner-Gross

Mentioned in 22 episodes

Mentioned by

Elon Musk

as a book featuring a mass driver on the moon.

Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

Mentioned by

Elon Musk

in reference to a mass driver on the moon, a concept featured in the book.

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and his manufacturing method

Mentioned by

Alex Wissner-Gross

while joking about the moon as the strategic high ground.

SpaceX Goes Public, Claude’s Mythos Release, and the US Data Center Delay | EP #246

Mentioned by

Elon Musk

as an example of a libertarian paradise located on the moon.

Elon Musk on AGI Timeline, US vs China, Job Markets, Clean Energy & Humanoid Robots | 220

Mentioned by

Peter Suderman

as a comparison to South Park in terms of libertarian cultural products.

South Park Is Saving Free Speech!

Mentioned by

Palmer Luckey

as a good depiction of what warfare on the moon would look like.

Palmer Luckey on UFOs, Anduril, Invisibility Tech, & Moon Wars

Recommended by

Peter Suderman

as a fantastic, weird, and brilliant pulp novel that outlines ideas core to Reason's ideology.

Ask Us Anything: Libertarians Answer Your Questions

Mentioned by

Clay Bavor

as a science fiction book he read as a teenager, which predicted some aspects of current AI capabilities.

Sierra Co-Founder Clay Bavor on Making Customer-Facing AI Agents Delightful

Mentioned by

Elon Musk

during a discussion about putting a mass driver on the moon.

On Dwarkesh Patel's 2026 Podcast With Elon Musk and Other Recent Elon Musk Things

Mentioned as a possible book written by Robert A. Heinlein, confirming the speaker's familiarity with the author.

Starship Troopers

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