Propelling the Void: The Geopolitics of Trace Atmospheric Gases

We take the infrastructure of the modern world for granted, assuming our satellites will always stay in orbit and our microchips will always shrink. But both of these futuristic industries rely entirely on a massive geopolitical bottleneck: Xenon. Xenon is a noble gas so rare that it makes up less than one part per ten million in the Earth's atmosphere. It is the absolute optimal fuel for the io...