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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

Conversations with Tyler

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Cancer Research

On the last page of The Martian, you mentioned that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to save this one life. What are the limits of spending that kind of money to save individual lives? Where do you draw the line? How do you think about that philosophically? I guess it would come down to how, like, if you were going to spend that money to save other lives instead, how many could you save? You'll never know. But you never really know.

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