2: Ben Roberts, investor, discusses microgravity in low Earth orbit. The near-zero gravity effect aids organic processes, allowing materials to form better with fewer defects, lacking sedimentation or convection.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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| 0:27.5 | This is John Batchel, conversation with investor Ben Roberts, investing in microgravity and low earth orbit used by chiefly pharmaceutical companies now, but there are many uses in |
| 0:33.9 | future. What does microgravity mean and how does it affect experiments and developing |
| 0:41.3 | new pharmaceutical products? Here Ben explains. There's much more of this tonight. But |
| 0:47.6 | microgravity is a huge boost when it comes to organic processes. |
| 0:56.7 | Here's Ben. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, in this sense, yes. |
| 1:01.9 | It's not that gravity doesn't exist in low-with-door, but obviously it does. |
| 1:11.9 | It's just that the effect is effectively zero compared to Earth, which sort of means that a lot of living systems just act differently. |
| 1:15.0 | You can, things form better with fewer defects. |
| 1:19.3 | And on the material side, of course, you don't get things like sedimentation or convection or buoyancy when there's very little, very little or no effect of gravity. |
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