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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