Mars-Struck

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You love to travel. But would you if doing so meant never coming home? The private company Mars One says it will land humans on the Red Planet by 2026, but is only offering passengers one-way tickets. Hundreds of thousands of people volunteered to go. Meet a young woman who made the short list, and hear why she’s ready to be Mars-bound. Also, why microbes could be hiding in water trapped in the planet’s rocks. And, how a wetter, better Mars lost its atmosphere and became a dry and forbidding place. Plus, why Kim Stanley Robinson, author of a famous trilogy about colonizing and terraforming Mars, thinks that the current timeline for going to the planet is unrealistic. Guests: • Laurel Kaye – A senior in the physics department at Duke University • Alfonso Davila – Senior scientist at the SETI Institute • Stephen Brecht – Physicist and president of the Bay Area Research Group • Kim Stanley Robinson – Hugo Award-winning science Fiction author of the Mars trilogy: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy), Green Mars (Mars Trilogy), Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:04.0	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:07.0	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shredd you to pieces.
0:11.0	It becomes kind of like a game of
0:12.7	throne's political arena where everyone's trying to
0:15.8	murder you to get your job.
0:17.3	My family doesn't come from corporate background,
0:19.2	so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.
0:21.6	This is not your typical work podcast.
0:23.8	Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
0:25.4	And then there are times that you ask for input,
0:27.4	but you don't really give a shit.
0:28.8	Listen to the Amby Award Nominated Podcast,
0:31.0	surfing corporate.
0:32.0	Stretch opportunity.
0:33.0	What is a yoga class?
0:34.0	Get out of here.
0:35.0	The world is filled with many questions,
0:37.0	such as, did giants exist?
0:39.0	What is junk DNA?
0:40.0	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:42.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans,
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