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Jonathon Keats is a writer, a philosopher, and an artist – a conceptual artist, who plays with people’s sense of time, money, and yes, space. Those “astronauts” he mentioned were actually succulents and potatoes that he planted in “asteroidal dust.” Sounds like a joke, right? So how in the world does that translate into art? KALW's Martina Castro went to the LASA Exotourism Bureau in downtown San Francisco to find out.
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July 13, 2011
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MARTINA CASTRO: There’s something very cool for sale here, space travel ... Wait wait, not that kind of space travel ... It’s a little more abstract.
JONATHON KEATS: What we have set up are various means of travel outside our own world – to the moon, to other planets and ultimately to the stars.
That’s LASA Secretary General Jonathon Keats. And by “various means of travel,” he means your feet never actually leave Planet Earth. All you do is ingest this special water.
KEATS: We have bottles of lunar, martian, and stellar mineral water.
Which are all made with what Keats calls a proprietary blend of minerals from those various locations in space.
KEATS: So the idea, of course, in the case of the stellar mineral water, you’re not only getting far away, you are also getting out of the way temporally speaking because this predates our solar system. So you are in essence exploring what ha...
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