2/2: LEO, Moon, MARS: Health risks of space travel. Christopher Mason, author, THE NEXT 500 YEARS.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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https://www.science.org/content/article/astronauts-face-health-risks-even-short-trips-space
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:25.6 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.0 | P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John Batcher. This is Hotel Mars episode N. I am visiting with Christopher Mason, |
| 0:40.1 | the author of the next 500 years engineering life to reach new worlds. |
| 0:44.0 | Chris and I discussed at length his book several years past. |
| 0:48.0 | Since then he's been extremely busy with his colleagues assembling a database |
| 0:52.0 | which is available through Nature magazine |
| 0:54.8 | about the risks and the damage imagined and viewed from the point of view of this growing database, especially thanks to the Inspiration 4 crew led |
| 1:06.6 | by Jared Isaacman in a dragon capsule that is providing up-to-date information, not just the early astronauts who couldn't walk very |
| 1:16.2 | well when they got back, to right now genetic risk. |
| 1:20.4 | And I go to a chart because this is about ethics as well. |
| 1:24.0 | What is it that you can say about age and temperament and background and gender |
| 1:32.0 | that space will change or challenge and Chris |
| 1:36.8 | reading as an amateur the best I can from the summit dialogue what I understand is that age and gender are profound. Is that accurate? |
| 1:46.0 | The different of significant factors that we've begun to tease out. We don't know how big yet or even some of the |
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