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JD Vance reveals the problem with building a colony on Mars & space travel JD: "One of the things I've talked with Elon about—and Elon is obviously a super smart dude—is that I've never heard a super satisfying answer to this. One of the things that worries me is that I want humans to be a multiplanetary species. I want us to go to Mars and set up a colony. I love humanity, and I want it to continue. The problem with space travel that I have, and again, I've not heard a satisfactory solution to it, is that when we're outside of the Earth's gravity, our genes—our actual DNA—seems to not function as well when it's not in Earth-style gravity. Which makes sense, right? We developed in these conditions with this gravity. Whenever you have somebody who goes to the International Space Station for three months or six months, they come back and they are totally jacked up because, literally, the cells in their body are starting to discombobulate in response to a low-gravity environment. We have to figure out a solution to that problem. That, to me, is sort of the most interesting part of space travel, of going to Mars or setting up a colony on another planet. If you set up a colony on Mars, and it takes you two years to get there and two years to get back, in that time, you've gone from a functioning, healthy adult to dead if you're in space for four years. That part of space travel is very fascinating to me, and I don't know that I've heard any satisfactory solution to it yet."

Ivanka Trump says she swam barefoot to a 1,400-hectare, off-grid Mediterranean island to scout her next project. Now, she and Jared Kushner are building a massive destination from scratch on one of the last untouched coastlines in Europe. Here is exactly what they are building. I looked into the details. The site is Sazan Island in Albania. It is a decommissioned Soviet and Italian military base that has sat abandoned for years. Through Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, they are investing $1.4 billion to transform the restricted island into an ultra-luxury eco-resort. To pull this off without ruining the pristine terrain, they partnered with Aman Resorts. Aman is famous for hiring master architects who integrate buildings directly into the natural topography. Major Food Group, the company behind Carbone, is handling the dining. Building a world-class destination from absolute scratch with zero existing power infrastructure is a massive logistical challenge. If they succeed, they will turn a forgotten weapons base into one of the most impressive travel destinations in the world.