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The 'Terrestrial Prioritization' Index Fund (TPIF)

An investment fund that focuses exclusively on companies developing solutions to pressing terrestrial challenges like climate change, poverty, and disease. Marketed as a direct alternative to space exploration investments, channeling resources back to Earth and highlighting the human cost of neglecting domestic issues for Martian dreams. Ticker symbol: TPIF.

Projects inspired by this Product Idea

What if the very technology meant to liberate us from addiction became a new form of enslavement?

Celestial Dependence: Celestial Dependence visualizes the societal collapse of brain implant technology, revealing personal and collective implications of dependence on flawed technological systems.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Robotic expeditions will be launched using Starboat that will create detailed characterization of the Martian surface in preparation to set up bases.

Extrapolated from The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen - Thenewatlantis.com

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