#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