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Mike Malik's avatar

Stephen, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to write these up every week. I love reading about young people working to make the world better and the fact that you remind me weekly that there are young, smart, entrepreneurs working on REAL things and not just toxic social media apps is great. Thank you.

Seth Patt's avatar

I find the information about high tech start-ups fascinating. Is there any investment vehicle for them? It would be nice to invest in them without being a large venture capital firm.

Dennis Carver's avatar

Thanks for reporting on this amazing engineering the is happening here in the U.S. I wish we had a way to invest in some of these innovative startups.

PHILIP MICHAELS's avatar

omg, love the genius, the imagination, the effort, the focus, especially the focus for their ability to keep pushing, keep thinking, keep imagining, keep trying

Alan Hetherington's avatar

Hi Stephen. Do you follow Kraken Robotics, a Canadian company that is in the underwater technology business as well as underwater batteries? They are a public company so you can invest in it now.

Randy Brandt's avatar

I am encouraged to see innovation in technology that can be used to protect our country while reducing the number of human casualties. However, we also need to be careful not to do this at the expense of our ocean resources and marine life. I can imagine that all of the underwater drone activity will certainly have an impact on the delicate marine life, who are the original inhabitants of that environment. For that reason, I am also encouraged to see multi-use drones, especially those designed to restore our ocean resources. Too much of what is going on underwater is intruding and disrupting God's underwater creation. What may be lost, may no longer be available for ours or His enjoyment.

Fred Schurkus's avatar

fascinating stuff.

William P Griggs's avatar

Ditto to Mike's comment. I really enjoy Rational Optimist Society posts.

Pat  McPartlin's avatar

Like this info. Wish they were public

Den On The Coast's avatar

Hi Stephen, I love all these updates. I must say, I never really fully considered the potential of the oceans. Please keep up the great work!

Mt's avatar

Eye opening!

Barry's avatar

I send the RO weekly newsletters to my 9 yr old grandaughter to counter balance some of negative stuff encountered in real life. Tragic but true. Keep it up guys.

Gary Fine's avatar

fascinating stuff. it all happens so quickly.

Duffy's avatar

Are you sure that your optimism isn't outrunning your rationality? We need to secure our roots before we sail off into a risky future thinking we can one-up those who think they can one-up us. No doubt Icarus thought his optimism was rational. You should spend more energy on REAL risk reduction over the very long term.

kevin Lenihan's avatar

Great work as always, you are doing vital work. I would love to interview you on my YouTube channel, Yellow Cottage Tales. We have 10k subscribers and a very active, intelligent and loyal audience in live chat. I've covered a lot of true crime, been on Court TV many times, but I'd really like to pivot more to science and to work like what you are doing. My email is leitskev@gmail.com

Wayne Peace's avatar

Great articles. I have forwarded many and encouraged others to sign up.