Ariel Ekblaw

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TechStuff · TechStuff Redux: More AI in Space Than on Earth? Really!? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

So I have kind of a three-part answer to this.

The first is just tactical, which is we learn so much by going into space as humans that helps us do spin-off technologies for life on Earth.

So there's a huge history of NASA, you know, Kevlar microwaves.

Some people say even laser guy surgery in some part from the shuttle program.

So that's very tactical.

The second is more strategic.

Yeah, you learned something along the way that you wouldn't have learned if you didn't send a human.

The second is strategic, which is we need to go to space and we can absolutely use probes and Mars rovers and Venus flybys and things to do this.

But the more that we learn about, especially the near neighborhood of our solar system, the more we understand about Earth's longevity and how to plan for planetary health as a system.

So a great example of this is when Apollo 8, I think it was 1968 on Christmas Eve, flew around the moon for the first time.

took a photo of the Earth rising above the moon.

Earthrise, the opposite of moonrise that we see on the Earth.

And that image, called Earthrise, launched the environmental movement in the United States.

So that's an example of space exploration, when humans are involved, expanding our concentric circles of awareness

as a species and why it's kind of so important for us as a civilization to push out with human life in addition to robots.

I don't think we'd be very satisfied as a species just doing teleoperation and VR headset viewing of some robot's life on Mars, right?

We are a species that loves knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

We need to go.

We now have, so the image was called Earthrise, but exactly what you're hitting on, this notion of seeing the Earth from space, is known as the overview effect.

And it famously leads trained military men to cry.

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