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Excellent. I've got Mae Higgins.

She's from Ireland, the professional stand-up comedian.

We've got Anisa Ramirez, who's an expert on mechanical engineering and education in STEM.

And of course, Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey. Excellent.

And I just met you, so Phoebe, another stand-up comedian, and Eugene Merman, who's one of the great organizers of all these new jobs.

So Cory, a recent Kickstarter campaign was conducted by the Planetary Society, who a friend of Star Talk, Bill Nye, who is the CEO of that.

And they kind of, they kick started to fund a light sale campaign, which is a spacecraft that is driven by the pressure of the light from the sun.

Think about this intermediation of powerful workers.

Did you just do this intermediation? Did that work just come out of your mouth?

I thought I could drop those.

I can't drop work that down on the science.

Wrap it up, Stanford.

This intermediates all of us. If we used to want to get money for a business or for an idea, we had to go supplicate ourselves before banks.

Supplicate another one?

How did you get elected?

That rub is the supplicate everyone.

Let me break this down.

Kickstarter. There's so many platforms now for you to go straight to the people with your idea and get resources.

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