It's a mission to Mars. No boys allowed. Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green,

and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at bill whittle.com. And Bill,

I practically did this entire episode just for you. I read a story recently, and this is,

this is breaking news from the 1950s.

But apparently there has been substantial research done that indicates that for long space journeys, such as a journey to Mars, which may take more than a thousand days, that we would be wise, at least in the early trips, to make the entire crew composed solely of women.

And it's not because of any kind of, you know, sexist thing or trying to balance the books of

history because only men went to the moon or anything like that. It's because of a few basic

scientific facts, so called.

An all-female crew on a long journey uses 26% fewer calories, breathes up 29% less oxygen,

and uses 18% less water than a male crew.

Now, there are some other kind of psychological benefits

where, you know, maybe it's less likely

that there'll be a gunfight over a long journey

among women than there would be among men.

But primarily, these scientists who have done this study

have said, on a 1 on a thousand eighty day mission,

you would need 1,695 fewer kilograms of food or roughly 10% of the payload of a falcon heavy.

Bill, on the basis of science, are you willing to accept the premise that the first voyagers on the starship, the first crew that we send should be an all-female crew?

Well, I think they'd save a lot more than the calories you listed because I don't think it would be more than two weeks before they'd all killed each other and there was only one survivor.

I knew you'd like it. Yeah. So I just want to be clear on this because it's really an important point. My problem with, with, I don't have any

problem with female astronauts or any other kinds of astronauts. I have a problem with diversity

hires. And Jordan Peterson has

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