Exo Wombs and the Faint Young Sun Paradox

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

To combat low population growth, some countries are looking into using artificial wombs to grow new humans. Anthony and Jeff examine this dystopian idea to see if it might actually make sense. Then, we know the sun - and all stars - get hotter and hotter until they die. But what we rarely consider if how a younger sun would have been dimmer and cooler. Jeff and Anthony take a look at the paradox of how life on Earth emerged when it would have been too cold for oceans to flow.

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0:00.0	That was Kafka that said better about home ownership. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff
0:19.0	Canada. I have the car, Bonnie. Hello concerned citizens. Jeff, the matrix. No one can tell you
0:29.0	what it is, Jeff. They have to show you. It isn't a romcom. And then 20 years later, they have to
0:40.0	show you again, but boring. Yeah, but unfortunate. One of the things, one of the big scary reveal images,
0:54.0	though one of the images in the matrix that stuck with everybody for so long was the
1:00.0	bald piano. The fields of human incubators, right? Yeah, you got it right. Bald Kiano. Bald Kiano. Yeah.
1:06.0	But not just bald Kiano. Bald Kiano's little little womb patch that he came out of. Everybody lives in a
1:14.0	little weird womb. Little womb patch full of a goop. Little goop in there. Little goop womb. Yeah.
1:24.0	Some ooze, some goop, a little bit of slime. Yeah. Mixed together. That's just the recipe for a matrix
1:31.0	right there. You know, I, but you know, this idea of like fields of growing humans like or
1:40.0	like an exo womb, you know, something like that. That's, that's an image that really sticks
1:46.0	with people. And it's an image that's used a lot in sci-fi. There was your read. I mean, I mean,
1:53.0	there's, did you ever read? I read. You ever read? Then you've seen, you know, you've seen
2:03.0	and I've read, you've seen you read, you know, I had something in my head and it disappeared. But yeah,
2:10.0	there's, there's a weird thing about it where I think I think honestly that's one of the
2:14.0	biggest reasons that people would want to get out of the matrix. That notion is disturbing, right?
2:19.0	Yeah. Like maybe we're in it right now. Maybe we're in a goopy exo womb right this second.
2:25.0	You don't know. It doesn't seem unpleasant right now. If I'm in the matrix, if I'm in a simulated reality.
2:31.0	Sure. But the knowledge that your little pasty little little body is in all that goopy
2:38.0	goops with maybe stuff stuck down your nose and throat. Yeah. This that notion is pretty horrifying.
2:43.0	It's, it's a horrifying notion. But even if you remove the matrixy part of it, you think about
2:48.0	something like a lab lab grown meat or something like that. There's something that we have where
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