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Dante Loretta

πŸ‘€ Speaker
546 total appearances

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Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

Taking some cues from Triple H.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

Okay, so one of the other things I'm involved with is asteroid mining.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

I think this is the future.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

I'm really excited.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

I'm an advisor and on the scientific advisory board for a company called Planetary Resources, who is getting very serious about developing an economy in space, going out to asteroids like Bennu, particularly looking at the water.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

It seems like the water is, you know, something like Bennu, we anticipate holds about five trillion dollars worth of water, which you can break up into hydrogen and oxygen and use for rocket fuel.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

So just another activity that I'm involved with and looking forward to helping these folks get into outer space and really make it serious about human exploration of the solar system and becoming an interplanetary species.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

And then finally, AP mentioned I do develop board games.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

We just released our second game called Constellations, which is all about learning the patterns of the stars in the night sky and learning how they all fit together to create the view of the universe that we see from Earth.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

And then Extranaut came out last year.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

And it's about building rockets and going places.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

And you can, you know, a lot of my personal experiences in here, you can fly Earth gravity assist to achieve a Bennu sample return mission.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

So it's really there to get kids excited about space exploration, to teach them something while they're having fun.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

And this actually did really well.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

We were named the best family board game of 2016 by Good Housekeeping Magazine last year.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

So it's getting some traction out there and it's been a really great way to share the adventure with a whole new generation of explorers.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

So that's just a quick snapshot of what's going on.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

I hope you see the value of my humanities education.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

There was a reason I was drawn to the college as a college student and I really feel it expanded my world view.

Tucson Humanities Festival 2017
Exploring The Universe: Science and Humanities United

It resonated with the kinds of things that I was thinking and wanting to do with my career.