Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Ariel Ekblaw

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
See mentions of this person in podcasts
686 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

And then we can kind of earn our right as a species to say, now let's go do artificial gravity, spin our habitat on the way to Mars and go explore the rest of our solar system.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Yep, Alpha Fold 3.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

With David Baker and Demis Hassabis, their AI folding for proteins.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Protein folding.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

This is a great question.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

What can you do uniquely in the zero-g environment that you can't do on Earth?

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Yes.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

And that hits on kind of the fundamental principles that you want to think about when you're saying, what can you only do in space?

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

You have no convection.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

So hot air is not rising, cool air is not sinking.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

You have no sedimentation, nothing sinking down.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

And for a lot of biological biotech processes, that's huge to get rid of sedimentation

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Do you have a bottle?

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

I feel like someone's got to give you a bottle of that.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Yeah, so what can you do?

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

So you don't have any convection.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

You don't have sedimentation.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

And then you have things that we typically think of as a difficulty, but in space can be a feature, not a bug.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

So use the vacuum or use radiation to do something.

StarTalk Radio
The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw

Oh, wow.