944: Zach Weinersmith | Out-of-This-World Hurdles to Colonizing Mars
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
What hurdles must humanity face before it can inhabit the final frontier? A City on Mars co-author Zach Weinersmith is here to ground us with the facts.
What We Discuss with Zach Weinersmith:- How tethered to reality are Elon Musk's grand plans for the human colonization of Mars? Shouldn't we focus on ensuring the sustainability of our current world before investing in centuries-long efforts to squeeze life out of a dead planet?
- With current technology, how well can human bodies be protected against prolonged exposure to radiation, extreme temperature fluctuation, and lesser gravity on the Red Planet and the Lunar surface?
- The economics of farming, mining, and extracting resources in space.
- The political, legal, and ethical considerations of space colonization.
- If now's not the most prudent time to hurl our species into the cold, uncaring void, then when?
- And much more...
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| 0:04.5 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger show. What's called microgravity just you can think of it as no |
| 0:10.0 | gravity. Reliably that does all sorts of bad things to your body. Notably you lose |
| 0:14.7 | something like 1% of bone density in your hips per month. You also lose |
| 0:18.9 | muscle strength very quickly. You reliably lose vision in space. This is one of the lesser |
| 0:24.4 | known things about space is that people are actually sent up with glasses to |
| 0:28.0 | adjust to the expected vision loss and that doesn't come back. It's just a thing that |
| 0:32.0 | happens in space. |
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