PREVIEW: MEDICINE: Conversation with geneticist Christopher Mason, author of "The Next 500 Years," explains the compiling of a database on the effects of space travel on humans. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:06.0 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent. |
| 0:10.7 | Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel |
| 0:27.4 | with us. P and O'Ferees, there is another way. |
| 0:30.3 | This is John Bachelor. It's called Sommer. |
| 0:33.0 | S-O-M-A, Space O-M-E-M-E-N-E-N-E-N-E-S-E-S-O-M-E-S-M-E-S-E. Medicine has compiled this database with his colleagues. It's the largest we have of people |
| 0:47.4 | who've traveled to space, astronauts and most recently, in a inspiration for private space journeys led by |
| 0:56.8 | Jared Isaacman in dragon capsules. It's what happens to the body in space in zero g |
| 1:04.0 | exposed to cosmic rays exposed to all the threats, the stress, |
| 1:10.0 | the risk that you take traveling just to low Earth orbit but beyond to the moon |
| 1:15.5 | and beyond to Mars and here he comments on something that seems obvious but isn't to me |
| 1:21.8 | the confinement in a tube in a small place for days. A stress. More of |
| 1:29.3 | this later. Thank you. |
| 1:31.3 | Yes, it is part of also the fact that you're in a very, very small, you know, aluminum tube in some cases. |
| 1:38.5 | So it is very stressful on the body and if you ever had a bad roommate |
| 1:43.4 | It anyone can attest it is not pleasant. You'd like to get out there, but there's no way to get out of there. So you are stuck in that capsule and there's no else to go and so you can have |
| 1:51.1 | entertainment options you can do workouts you can have entertainment options, you can do workouts, you can live reasonably well, but it is a very confined space and there's just not a room to move around. |
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