Zoë Schiffer: Totally. OK. It’s time to move on to another topic, because I feel quite down. The topic is outer space. My first question is, Jake, how do you think about outer space? Would you like to go? Normaly, I’d say no. Not interested. Take me to Mars?
Jake Lahut Strangely, deep ocean exploration is more appealing to me. This could be due to a recent bias.
Zoë Schiffer: Was going to say.
Jake Lahut The Ocean Gate. Not only was I a huge fan of the Apollo mission, but Gemini, Mercury and other missions as well. My house had a beanbag where I’d pretend to be the astronaut.
Zoë Schiffer: Wow!
Jake Lahut It was the reentering of atmosphere, looking for everything.
Zoë Schiffer: This is exactly what I see.
Jake Lahut Yeah. So huge Al Shepard, John Glenn fan. All that is awesome. However, I’m also quite large and think that fitting in the vessel might be a problem.
Zoë Schiffer: It’s totally fair. It’s not 100% certain that you would be able to see this, even if you found a vessel capable of taking you there. But WIRED contributor Jorge Garay recently reported on a recent discovery by a group of astronomers at Yale and Copenhagen. The Infinity Galaxy is what they have named it. It’s a pretty amazing discovery, as it might be the very first evidence that supermassive Black Holes were created in the past.
Jake Lahut Yeah. It looks like a sideways 8 formation. This is pretty amazing. If you’re interested in checking out Instagram Reels, check it out especially our vertical treatment. The video is quite mesmerizing.
Zoë Schiffer: According to the most common theory, they’re formed when stars lose their fuel and fall under gravity. The stars wouldn’t be able to achieve this level of density with supermassive Black Holes that are very old. This Infinity Galaxy confirms another theory, that the stars formed from dense clusters of matter.
Jake Lahut We are still learning new things in science, at least until further notice. Maybe that will continue.
Zoë Schiffer: If not, AI will step in to do all the work for us.
Jake Lahut DOGE isn’t going to be able catch the James Webb telescope. There’s no way anyone will catch up to that badboy anytime soon.
Zoë Schiffer: OK. Next, we’ll be going back down to Earth and to Silicon Valley. Joel Khalili has reported that cryptocurrency firms have finally gained more banking access. Jake, I think this is very critical and it covers our two areas of coverage. Because de-banking was the main reason many Marc Andreessens of the world turned their backs on Biden and went for Trump. We’re now seeing how that decision has played out, because under the crypto friendly Trump administration a number US FinTech firms compete to offer these crypto companies bank accounts. They still have to adhere to the rules of the bank that is partnering with them, and so they can’t completely escape the banking system. What’s your view on the matter, given that this issue was so crucial to the recent election?
