Ya-know, Astronomy and Astrophysics take advantage of these types of markets and trading, by linking into the speculative markets. Like the new Hollywood shares market which trades by speculating on movies and where insider-trading is allowed...you could speculate on things like the following;
1. Life on Mars
2. Life on other bodies (like Europa, Titan or Enceladus)
3. SETI contact
4. Gravity Waves
And just like the Hollywood trade, entities can fund research which drives the speculation.
With so much liquidity floating around, why not soak-up a few Billion into science projects?
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