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

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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OUTLINE:
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(0:00) – Introduction
(7:43) – Human extinction awareness
(16:29)– Heat death of the universe
(22:05)– Alone in the universe
(25:41)– Aliens
(33:50)– Entropy goggles
(48:04)– Genetics
(56:14)– Scott Kelly
(1:02:12)– Adapting to space
(1:12:13)– Sex in space
(1:14:46)– Colonizing planets
(1:21:25)– Culture on Mars
(1:25:51)– Commercial space flights
(1:33:09)– Podcast in space
(1:40:43)– Axiom Space
(1:42:59)– Designing space experiments
(1:49:49)– Robots in space
(1:52:30)– Space exploration
(1:56:28)– War in space
(2:00:05)– Launch toward the Second Sun
(2:06:14)– Chlorohumans
(2:11:50)– Extreme microbiome project
(2:18:17)– Space travel breakthroughs
(2:30:15)– Clones
(2:36:08)– AI age prediction
(2:41:38)– Advice for young people
(2:47:56)– Dark times
(2:52:19)– Mortality
(2:56:37)– Visiting ISS and deep space
(2:57:46)– Meaning of life