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Speaker 1: Welcome to Trilliance. I'm Joel Webber and I'm Eric bel

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Speaker 1: Tunis Eric. Sometimes it feels like the E t F

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Speaker 1: space doesn't have a whole lot of white space for

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Speaker 1: new products. Basically everything's taken up. I mean, we're living

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Speaker 1: in a world where there's a pet carry TF, video game,

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Speaker 1: et F, you name it, quantum computing. There's now ets

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Speaker 1: for things that don't even know what those things are.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go research them. So yeah, there's really hardly

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Speaker 1: any more ideas here on planet Earth. So maybe instead

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Speaker 1: of looking for white space, people need to look for

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Speaker 1: real space, black space and leave Earth. That's what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna spend. What are we hinting at here? A space

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Speaker 1: the Final Frontier, literally the Final Frontier. There's a race

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Speaker 1: going on with companies. You've got the Space Force, you know,

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Speaker 1: coming into play, and now there's ETFs that are sort

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Speaker 1: of trying to get ahead of that, and you know,

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Speaker 1: see if they can appeal to investor's imagination and hopefully

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Speaker 1: get some performance while they're at it. And this was

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Speaker 1: another episode where we decided to outsource it to the

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Speaker 1: ever intrepid Rachel Evans at Bloomberg News, who actually wouldn't

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Speaker 1: talk to people who are involved directly in this space. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this from lent itself to field work because there's it's

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Speaker 1: a whole industry and a lot of people don't know

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Speaker 1: a lot about it and how legitimative is it. And

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Speaker 1: she found some characters, some really good characters. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: week gund trillions the E t F space race and

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Speaker 1: that's when it happened. That's when we first heard that

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Speaker 1: they had come by. That's when we should have prepared

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Speaker 1: ourselves for any eventuality, But we didn't imagine yourself as

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Speaker 1: one of the crew of this faster than light spaceship

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Speaker 1: of the future. You'll boldly go where no man has

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Speaker 1: gone before, space, the Final Frontier. Just the mention of it,

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Speaker 1: conscious images of Ewoks, zig Stardust, every sci fi book

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Speaker 1: grown up self could invest in the cosmos just as

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Speaker 1: easily as the US stock market. That's the mission for

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Speaker 1: a clutch of new and planned E t F s.

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Speaker 1: They want to take investing out of this world. To

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Speaker 1: find out more about this new opportunity, I headed to

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Speaker 1: the Hayden Planetarium in New York's Natural History Museum to

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Speaker 1: meet Christopher Kramer, a PhD student at Brown University and

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Speaker 1: an expert in Martian rocks. The lady on the desk said,

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Speaker 1: I could go straight in with a thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: thank Hello are your Christopher? Rachel everts between backing news,

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Speaker 1: how how are you doing at this is cool? Christopher

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Speaker 1: was in town to host a three D tour of

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Speaker 1: of companies doing business in space. There's been pretty sense

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Speaker 1: of commercialization in the realm of lower orbiting satellites are

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Speaker 1: just they're various commercial satellites, artificial satellites that over the

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Speaker 1: the miniaturization of satellites to make it even easier for

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Speaker 1: various public and private interests to deploy their instrumentation of choice,

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Speaker 1: their hardware of choice into Earth orbit. And so they're

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Speaker 1: huge profits to be made. And I think that they're

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Speaker 1: huge profits being made in that in that realm right now.

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Speaker 1: Even as many of us in the US now stream

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Speaker 1: agrees what time it is at any given moment. Space,

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Speaker 1: Christopher tells me, could also fuel new industries from tourism

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Speaker 1: to mining asteroids for precious metals. It all sounds pretty

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Speaker 1: far out. So I went to meet Andrew Channon, whose

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Speaker 1: how he got interested in space. So, starting off in

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Speaker 1: in the last decade, you're seeing a huge ship where

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Speaker 1: there's a significant amount of investment capital going into the

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Speaker 1: private side, not the government side, where wealthy individuals the Basos,

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Speaker 1: Branson's and Mosques of the world putting their own money

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Speaker 1: where their mouth is and trying to create their own solutions.

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Speaker 1: But some of the things that they're trying to do

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Speaker 1: but the broader space industry also has bags of potential.

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Speaker 1: Morgan Stanley estimates that space could generate one point one

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Speaker 1: But the space industry could also get a boost from

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Speaker 1: another dimension. You look at the universe and how how

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Speaker 1: abundant it is, and it makes people think that, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a high probability that we aren't alone. And if

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Speaker 1: we aren't alone, all of those could spring some very

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Speaker 1: some other type of intelligent life. I don't know where

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Speaker 1: all that makes makes everything, you know, that much more

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Speaker 1: What happens when we do meet extraterrestrial life, Well, we

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Speaker 1: make our systems even better and completely transform our of life,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on Earth or via using space systems and networks.

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Speaker 1: Or what happens when extraterrestrial life absolutely hates us and

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Speaker 1: Those are two completely different paths, but ones that would

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Speaker 1: So how does that translate into a fund, Well, it

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Speaker 1: depends who's designing it. State Street is the only money

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Speaker 1: which also buys companies involved in deep sea exploration, allocates

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Speaker 1: about fifty of its assets to aerospace and defense companies

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Speaker 1: already found in an existing fund. Andrew Channon can't discuss

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Speaker 1: seeking approval from the u S regulator, but to look

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Speaker 1: communications and consumer focused firms like Garmen. A third space

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Speaker 1: from DWS Group. I wanted to learn more about these

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Speaker 1: I spoke to the man behind the index that Andrew's

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Speaker 1: fund intends to use, Mica Walter Range. Mica previously worked

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Speaker 1: I think it's largely a matter of the story of

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Speaker 1: explaining the people. Many people don't even understand that GPS

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Speaker 1: the timing of the global financial network is governed from space.

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Speaker 1: So understanding just how intimately involved space is in our

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Speaker 1: people excited when they realize that we have all of

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Speaker 1: be used to send robots to other planets, to send

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Speaker 1: people deep into space. If you're investing now, that's what

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Speaker 1: some of these new space startups. But UM these companies

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