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Futurist Michio Kaku on Mars, Immortality, and Interstellar Travel

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4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Futurist Michio Kaku says sooner or later humanity will face the possibility of extinction, and it’s up to scientists to come up with a plan B whether it’s another planet or even another galaxy. He explains why it’s important for us to return to the moon, how we would go about terraforming Mars, and what he calls the new "gold rush" that could fund NASA indefinitely. He shares his theory on why we haven’t encountered alien life and where humans fit in on his hierarchy of civilizations. Michio Kaku describes the three ways the universe will almost certainly die, but says in the meantime immortality might be just around the corner. Plus he gives me a progress update on what he calls his life’s work proving Einstein’s Unified Theory of Everything. Order Michio Kaku's book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth on Amazon. Keep up with him at www.mkaku.org and follow him on Twitter at @michiokaku. Today's podcast was sponsored by Grasshopper, Policy Genius, Google Cloud Platform, and Hulu's The Looming Tower. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ben Mathis. Welcome to Kickass News.

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Of the 260 or so episodes I've done on Kickass News, one of the most popular ones was a two-part interview I did with physicist, futurist,

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and number one best-selling author, Professor Michio Kaku.

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For me, it was also one of the funnest interviews I've done because Michio has a stunning breath of knowledge about new and emerging technology

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and an infectious enthusiasm for what's coming next and for the potential of science to dramatically improve our world in the coming decades.

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So I'm thrilled to welcome Michio Kaku back to the show to talk about his latest book, The Future of Humanity,

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Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and our Destiny Beyond Earth.

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Today, he says sooner or later humanity will face the possibility of extinction and it's up to scientists to get us out of that jam by coming up with a Plan B,

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whether it's another planet or even another galaxy.

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He explains why it's important for us to finally return to the moon, how we would go about Terraforming Mars to make it habitable for humans,

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and what he calls the New Gold Rush that could turn NASA into a self-funding agency.

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He shares his theory on why we have an encounter daily in life, and part of it has to do with where we fall on his hierarchy of civilizations.

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