#283 Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space

Published: May 8, 2022, 8:52 p.m.

Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(0:00) - Introduction
\n(7:43) - Human extinction awareness
\n(16:29) - Heat death of the universe
\n(22:05) - Alone in the universe
\n(25:41) - Aliens
\n(33:50) - Entropy goggles
\n(48:04) - Genetics
\n(56:14) - Scott Kelly
\n(1:02:12) - Adapting to space
\n(1:12:13) - Sex in space
\n(1:14:46) - Colonizing planets
\n(1:21:25) - Culture on Mars
\n(1:25:51) - Commercial space flights
\n(1:33:09) - Podcast in space
\n(1:40:43) - Axiom Space
\n(1:42:59) - Designing space experiments
\n(1:49:49) - Robots in space
\n(1:52:30) - Space exploration
\n(1:56:28) - War in space
\n(2:00:05) - Launch toward the Second Sun
\n(2:06:14) - Chlorohumans
\n(2:11:50) - Extreme microbiome project
\n(2:18:17) - Space travel breakthroughs
\n(2:30:15) - Clones
\n(2:36:08) - AI age prediction
\n(2:41:38) - Advice for young people
\n(2:47:56) - Dark times
\n(2:52:19) - Mortality
\n(2:56:37) - Visiting ISS and deep space
\n(2:57:46) - Meaning of life