As commercial space exploration grabs headlines, many of us are left wondering why space exploration matters. Shouldn’t we worry about saving earth from the ravages of climate change before we inhabit another planet?
To address part of that question, we are kicking off with an insightful discussion between two incredible female entrepreneurs — Tiffany Vora and Shahreen Reza — about how and why food in space is relevant to all of us.
Star Trek legend and blockchain advocate, William Shatner, made and sold a non-fungible token (NFT) of an X-Ray of his teeth. The entrepreneur known as MetaKovan paid $69.3million to the digital artist known as Beeple for an NFT of “Everydays The First 5000 Days.” The price confounded many because anyone can view and copy it for free.
World energy consumption is projected to grow by 50% in just 30 years. At the same time, civilization must reach net-zero carbon emissions lest tens of millions of people face displacement and impoverishment from heatwaves, drought, flooding, and pestilence. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres told the Finance in Common Summit last November, “Science is clear: if we fail to meet these goals, the disruption to economies, societies and people caused by COVID-19 will pale in comparison to what the climate crisis holds in store.” Nuclear power, with no carbon emissions, may be a solution for our rapidly industrializing world.
A breakthrough stunned world-leading scientists at the close of 2020.
“This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.”
“But when I first saw these results, I nearly fell off my chair.”
“…a once in a generation advance.”
“I was beginning to think it would not get solved in my lifetime.”
“It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted.”
