Life in the Weightless Void

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2012

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We all know the potentially dangerous effects of microgravity, but what are the long-term effects? Join Robert and Julie as they wonder what life will be like if evolution continues in space. Imagine the plants and the strange humans who will tend them.

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0:00.0	Hey I'm Jay Shetty and I'm the host of On Purpose. In this week's episode I had the honor to
0:06.0	interview President Joe Biden in his first ever personal interview about mental health.
0:11.4	We have an enormous opportunity but the thing I want to change is American attitude. We can do
0:16.8	anything. There's nothing we've ever said our mind who we've not been able to do we've done
0:20.9	together. For real. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeart Radio app Apple podcasts
0:28.0	or wherever you get your podcasts. Craig Ferguson goes in search of joy in talks with
0:34.3	actors, doctors, stand-ups and scientists, everyone. Is it love, religion, drugs, money? Where do you
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0:45.6	laughter and music of joy. Don't miss it. Joy with Craig Ferguson. Here it now. On the iHeart
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1:00.2	The podcast transportista who murdered Captain Coral tells the story of Colombia's drug wars.
1:06.0	Pablo Escobar's death was supposed to bring peace to Medellín but that peace was shattered for Beto Coral
1:11.4	when his father was murdered. Two sites, criminals and law enforcement in a battle to death in the
1:17.9	middle a city full of innocent people. The result, thousands of forgotten victims. Listen to
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1:29.4	get your podcasts. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:42.9	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Julie Douglas.
1:46.8	Julie, are you ready for life in space in the weightless void? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, I've been
1:53.2	in training for it. Okay. Yeah. Zero G. Yeah, of course you have to stay in training, that's the thing.
1:58.6	Yeah, yeah. You can't, I mean that that is the problem of our bodies, right? We're not really built
2:03.6	for the void. Yeah, the void. It's quite a hurdle to overcome when we're trying to envision this
2:11.8	long-term future in which humans really get serious about waiting out into the cosmic ocean,
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