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PREVIEW: HEADLINE: New Dangers of Weightlessness: Stem Cell Damage GUEST NAME: Bob Zimmerman SUMMARY: Bob Zimmerman discusses the dangers of extended weightlessness for Mars travel. Besides bone and muscle loss, research shows weightlessness significantly

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW:
HEADLINE: New Dangers of Weightlessness: Stem Cell Damage
GUEST NAME: Bob Zimmerman
SUMMARY: Bob Zimmerman discusses the dangers of extended weightlessness for Mars travel. Besides bone and muscle loss, research shows weightlessness significantly ages or damages astronauts' stem cells.
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0:00.0

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0:21.0

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0:22.3

conversation with my colleague

0:23.6

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0:23.1

my colleague Bob Zimmerman about new information, the effect of weightlessness, extended periods

0:29.7

of weightlessness. We knew that it made bones brittle so much so that you routinely see when

0:36.0

astronauts or cosmonauts or tekanauts return to Earth,

0:39.6

they're put it in chairs and carried around because their bones are either brittle or very, very weak.

0:45.1

Very weak. Everything is weak. There's also effect upon the eyesight, we're told. Other effects

0:51.8

that we're off after time, we're told.

0:54.9

However, Bob here reports on one that is fundamentally dangerous,

1:00.1

which is stem cells being damaged or aged out.

1:03.8

Any effect on stem cells?

1:05.5

Now, is there recovery?

1:07.5

Perhaps partial, but that would not be thrilling to volunteer into a partial damage to your stem cells.

1:14.9

What is to be done is the focus.

1:16.9

Here's Bob to explain what the problem is.

1:19.3

More of this tonight.

1:22.5

Yes, one of the things that we face if we want to go to Mars is that you're going to be in

1:28.8

with present technology, you're going to be in waitlessness for six months at least to get

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