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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:
  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

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