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

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Christopher Mason is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding Directors 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-years roadmap for how we could do it. 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... Sponsors: Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Reclaim your fitness and book a Free Consultation Call with ActiveLifeRX at http://bit.ly/rxwisdom Extra Stuff: Buy The Next 500 Years - https://amzn.to/3lwzkrY Check out Christopher's lab - https://masonlab.net/ Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, hello you! Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Christopher Mason, he's a professor
0:06.3	at Wild Cornel Medicine, founding director of the World Quant Initiative for Quantitative
0:11.5	Prediction and An Author. Eventually, the sun is going to engulf the earth. This means
0:17.4	that if we want human and animal life to not be snuffed out within a billion years, we
0:22.6	need to reach other worlds. And Christopher has put together a 500 year road map for how
0:27.7	we could do it. Today, expect to learn why spaceflight is so harsh on the human body, how
0:33.7	genetic manipulation could assist us with survival, whether locking generations of humans on a spaceship
0:39.2	is ethical, if zero gravity birth is possible, whether anyone has had sex in space yet, why
0:44.9	we should bathe in yoghurt, and much more. Honestly, I don't think I'm ever going to
0:50.5	get bored of dreaming about the potential futures for humanity, where we could end up and
0:55.0	how we might get there in different strategies for getting across the galaxy. And even more
0:59.2	mental than that is the fact that Christopher has somehow managed to get an entire lab of people
1:03.4	to actually be on board with this. So not only are they crazy theories, but somehow they're
1:08.4	happening in the real world, which, yeah, I mean, the future is here. We just haven't got
1:13.1	the flying cars yet. Another reason to be very positive about the future is that the modern
1:17.3	wisdom reading list is now live, and you've got a hundred amazing books, including fiction,
1:21.9	and real life stories that you can sink your teeth into for the rest of however long it
1:26.6	takes you to read them all head to chriswillx.com slash books download a copy. It is completely
1:33.1	free thousands of people have already got theirs and the feedback's been great wasting
1:37.8	people's life and not wasting their lives just just making them spend it on something
1:41.7	that isn't Netflix and love Island. Go and get a copy today chriswillx.com slash books.
1:47.2	In other news, this episode is brought to you by Boohoo Man. I have discovered my favorite
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