Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · The Future of Space Stations with Ariel Ekblaw · 29 May 2026 podcast

You kind of want to pick one or the other and then give the humans as much time as possible to acclimate in those different regimes.

The reason we're so excited about this first phase, and then we're working towards our artificial gravity phase,

But the first phase where you're staying floating, it's a big sphere.

You're floating in a big sphere.

We call it a geode because you have to think about how to subdivide a sphere on the inside.

It's not a rectangular prism.

So it's like little crystal chambers is kind of how we think about it.

We want to do biotech.

We want to do space infrastructure for the benefit of life on Earth first.

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.

Yep, Alpha Fold 3.

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

Protein folding.

This is a great question.

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

Yes.

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?

You have no convection.

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

You have no sedimentation, nothing sinking down.

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