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

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Oh, hello, you. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Christopher Mason. He's a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding director 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 year roadmap for how we could do it. Today, 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. Honestly, I don't think I'm ever going to get bored of dreaming about the potential futures for humanity, where we could end up and how we might get there and different strategies for getting across the galaxy. And even more mental than that is the fact that Christopher has somehow managed to get an entire lab of people to actually be on board with this. So not only are they crazy theories, but somehow they're happening in the real world, which yeah, I mean, the future is here. We just haven't got the flying cars yet. Another reason to be very positive about the future is that the Modern Wisdom reading list is now live and you've got a hundred amazing books, including fiction, nonfiction and real life stories.
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