Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283

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:
0:00 – Introduction
01:04 – Human extinction awareness
09:49 – Heat death of the universe
15:25 – Alone in the universe
19:01 – Aliens
27:11 – Entropy goggles
41:25 – Genetics
49:34 – Scott Kelly
55:32 – Adapting to space
1:05:34 – Sex in space
1:08:06 – Colonizing planets
1:14:45 – Culture on Mars
1:19:11 – Commercial space flights
1:26:29 – Podcast in space
1:34:03 – Axiom Space
1:36:20 – Designing space experiments
1:43:09 – Robots in space
1:45:50 – Space exploration
1:49:48 – War in space
1:53:25 – Launch toward the Second Sun
1:59:35 – Chlorohumans
2:05:10 – Extreme microbiome project
2:11:37 – Space travel breakthroughs
2:23:36 – Clones
2:29:28 – AI age prediction
2:34:59 – Advice for young people
2:41:16 – Dark times
2:45:39 – Mortality
2:49:57 – Visiting ISS and deep space
2:51:07 – Meaning of life

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