Mutating Astronaut Blood, A Cautionary Tale

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Researchers at NASA have been holding on to astronaut blood for 20 years. But that's not the story. The story is that over that period, the blood has been mutating. Anthony and Jeff discuss this new wrinkle in the dangers of space travel - and space colonization - and how some very smart people are thinking about it.

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0:00.0	I am the arbiter of all things that are cool. I have excellent taste. I am infallible. This is we have concerns.
0:21.5	Hi, Jeff Canada. I have the carbony. Hello concerned citizens. Jeff. Yeah. We're sending people to space.
0:35.0	Yeah, not as frequently as I'd like, but you know, more frequently than you'd think,
0:41.0	less frequently than we'd like. That's also true. That's how I would describe it. And certainly more
0:46.6	of the people that we're sending to space than ever are unqualified and have no reason to be there.
0:53.7	Well, if by unqualified, you mean have any qualifications other than being wealthy,
0:59.3	like, I'm seenally wealthy, then you would be correct. But if you mean if by qualified, you mean
1:07.0	absurdly rich, then you, you know, then I think qualified, you have to say qualified.
1:13.4	Jeff, why would they be absurdly rich if they weren't brilliant and qualified for everything?
1:20.6	We should take their opinions on all things. All things. Listen, if they got money,
1:26.2	they must be smarties. And we know this. We know this. We know this is known. But here's what's not
1:34.6	known. If we send people to space and they come back, if we send them multiple times or if they're
1:43.0	out there for a while, Jeff, and they come back, they're going to space mutations.
1:52.5	I would like to come back with something. Something in their cells.
1:55.6	Like the astronauts wife sort of thing. Yeah, like they weren't alone. Like there's something
2:01.2	that hitched a ride back inside them. Yeah. Like a, not an arrival thing, but the other one.
2:10.4	Species. Species. Oh, species is a good one. Species is a good one. I was thinking of the other one
2:19.2	that's the other one that's got Oscar Isaac. And they go into, they go into the, they go into
2:33.6	the, yeah, it was Dune. It was Dune. It was definitely Dune. Yeah, it was Moon Knight. I was
2:42.8	definitely thinking of Moon Knight. No, it's the other one that's based on a Ted Chiang. And,
2:49.4	and I always forget the name of the movie. And this is where we spend eight minutes of the podcast
2:57.4	trying to think of the name of this movie. And everyone who's listening right now is screaming
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