- SpaceX’s CRS-8 mission successfully landed the first stage on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” despite 70 km/h winds and heavy swell, demonstrating precision landing under adverse conditions.  
- Participants debated whether Elon Musk (focused on Mars) or Jeff Bezos (broader cis-lunar ambitions) would be more likely to interfere with private asteroid-moving ventures, concluding that nuclear-pulse propulsion could deter corporate interference.  
- A USC/JPL experiment to launch fungi into space was highlighted as a route to discovering novel pharmaceuticals that could be produced in microgravity.  
- Recent papers on DNA-origami drug delivery were shared: daunorubicin-loaded DNA nanostructures that bypass leukemia drug-resistance mechanisms (Wiley’s Small, 2016).  
- Scalable quantum-computing progress was discussed, including a Science paper on a surface-code architecture implemented in silicon and an MIT news item warning that large-scale quantum computers will break current encryption schemes.  
- The group floated the idea of post-quantum cryptocurrencies and noted that several Bitcoin-improvement proposals already aim to make the protocol quantum-resistant.  
- The “laser broom” concept—a ground-based laser system to de-orbit space debris by ablating one side of objects—was introduced as a near-term method to protect satellites and future asteroid-moving infrastructure.  
- kanzure linked to a #bitcoin-wizards log exploring “interstellar finance,” suggesting early thinking on how monetary systems could function across light-year distances.