#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:
- BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off
- Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium
- Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex
- Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex
- Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex

EPISODE LINKS:
Chris's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mason_lab
Chris's Website: http://masonlab.net/
Chris's Company: https://onegevity.com/
The Next 500 Years (book): https://amzn.to/3k9ab4S
Reasons and Persons (book): https://amzn.to/3Lrm6a5

PODCAST INFO:
Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast
Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8
RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman
YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips

SUPPORT & CONNECT:
- Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast
- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman
- Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman

OUTLINE:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(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

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:

– BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off

– Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium

– Magic Spoon: https://magicspoon.com/lex

– Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex

– Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex

EPISODE LINKS:

Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mason_lab

Chris’s Website: http://masonlab.net/

Chris’s Company: https://onegevity.com/

The Next 500 Years (book): https://amzn.to/3k9ab4S

Reasons and Persons (book): https://amzn.to/3Lrm6a5

PODCAST INFO:

Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast

Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8

RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/

YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman

YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips

SUPPORT & CONNECT:

– Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast

– Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

– Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman

– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman

– Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman

OUTLINE:

Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

(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