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Transplanted brains, sugar taxes and satellites

5 Live Science Podcast

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Space Forge - The Next Industrial Revolution

Spaceforge are planning foundries in space to forge new allies and make products for use here on Earth. Anything that's crystalline has a massive advantage of being made in space. Crystalline materials include alloys, semiconductors, but also proteins,. In some cases, even vaccines. The space wash we're developing will be uncrewed manufacturing satellites dedicated to one process at a time. They go to a much higher orbit in the space station because the atmosphere is much thinner. And yeah, there'll be control from the grounds. Most of the time, it'll be like a furnace that you switch on. You leave it and it will have some level of intelligence to shut itself

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