Ariel Ekblaw

And now, new technologies are coming online to enable lifesaving biotech in orbit and even deliver energy from space.

So again, in science fiction, there's been this idea for decades, let's go and either escape the earth.

So something wrong has happened to the earth or we've let it

fall to pieces and we think of space exploration as either an escape or a plan B. What we really want to argue at Aurelia Institute, where I do my work, is we should be protecting the Earth from the beginning.

And we could use space technology to do that.

And so one of the best things to do with space infrastructure, build these big structures in orbit, but do things like zero gravity biotech or space-based solar power that use space technology in service of Earth's citizens.

And that's not to say that someday we won't experience

Or someday we won't travel outside of the confines of the solar system.

But in the near term, we have so much opportunity to put space to work for Earth.

So that's what we really mean by that is use space technology and bring it back down to Earth.

It's in purpose of something.

And I am enough of a scientist.

I love exploration just for the sake of new knowledge.

But we also have to remind the public why it's relevant for their day-to-day life.

People know about GPS in many cases, right?

This is space-based technology that powers the precision of where you are with your phone.

It's why Uber works so well.

But there's now an incredible slate of new things that we could be doing in space.

But we need to build up the infrastructure to do it.

And that's what people haven't heard about before.