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