It has been mooted in the past but now space travel is becoming a more realistic prospect it could be a reality.
The idea that stress could be useful was first mooted in 1974 by pioneering stress researcher, Hans Selye.
Those include the mooted $42bn takeover of Switzerland's Syngenta by ChemChina, one of that country's largest state-owned conglomerates, and a bid announced this week for the Chicago Stock Exchange, which has already drawn calls from Congress for a review.
There's no need to have a conclusion or agreement point in every discussion; if a convergence has to be met with everything that is mooted, the conversation would be very draining.