ANTHROPOCENE MAN: 1/4: The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds by Christopher E. Mason
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🗓️ 14 January 2024
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Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, or by cataclysmic war, or when the sun runs out of fuel in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, will we have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit? In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. Because we are the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of lifeforms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life in other worlds.
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| 1:51.0 | What was Bio's mission when he traveled to Normandy and how did he fulfill the mission so that we can date your work in meteors from that moment? |
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| 2:01.0 | Yes, good evening. Thanks a lot for having me. Uh, Bio's mission |
| 2:04.6 | was actually quite simple. Uh, it was figure out what happened and and there was, uh, you know, |
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