Victor Vescovo
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Sky.
It's founded and run by a very well-off Danish businessman who invented the LifeStraw.
I love a ton of those.
Yeah.
He actually developed the technology for those.
That's how he made his fortune.
And now he's investing his fortune, which I greatly respect, into a stratospheric airship that will float above the earth in relatively calm air and act as a relay for cell phone signals, but also for staring reconnaissance, for environmental monitoring, but also potential...
offshore monitoring of our oceans, as well as military applications, et cetera.
And it fills that middle ground between satellites in low Earth orbit that are zipping by, that only have specific dwell times, and cell phone towers that can only go so high.
And so they are building and testing an airship in New Mexico.
It's going very well.
And we already, I believe, have some initial clients in areas that have mountainous terrain where cell phone towers have very poor coverage and satellites are zipping along too fast to have good, reliable coverage.
So we'll see.
That's another game-changing technology that hopefully works.
Very interesting.
Well, I met Mikkel, the CEO at the Explorers Club.
It's all these people that have very ambitious ideas.
They tend to operate at the edge of risk, and yet they're very methodical about how they do things.
The Explorers Club is a very old institution.
Again, I believe it was founded back at the turn of the century, based in New York.