A 500-Year Plan To Reach Other Worlds - Christopher Mason - #357

Aug 12, 2021 · 58m

Christopher Mason is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction and an author. Eventually, the sun is going to engulf the earth. This means that if we want human and animal life to not be snuffed out within a billion years, we need to reach other worlds and Christopher has put together a 500-years roadmap for how we could do it. Expect to learn why space flight is so harsh on the human body, how genetic manipulation could assist us with survival, whether locking generations of humans on a spaceship is ethical, if zero gravity birth is possible, whether anyone has had sex in space yet, why we should bathe in yoghurt and much more... Sponsors: Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Reclaim your fitness and book a Free Consultation Call with ActiveLifeRX at http://bit.ly/rxwisdom Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:00) A Roadmap to Leave Earth (06:00) Our Duty as Conscious Beings (13:38) 500 Years in the Future (16:57) Space’s Impact on Human Bodies (31:32) Evolving in Space (36:19) Ethics of Long-Term Space Travel (44:00) Social & Mental Issues in Space (47:09) Prepari…

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