Should I Stay, or Should I go... to Mars?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Naked Scientists have been on a trip to Mars but we forgot to ask one BIG question, should we even be going at all? We complete the series with a debate featuring a space politician, a geologist, an astronomer and a would-be Mars pioneer. Plus, in the news, will faecal transplants change your personality, and how sci-fi has been predicting technology for years. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to the fourth installment of the Naked Scientists Mission to Mars.
0:20.0	I'm Chris Smith and this week we're debating whether we should be colonizing our
0:24.7	cosmic next-door neighbour. Do the technological and scientific spin-offs justify the
0:29.2	spend or would the resources be much better invested here on earth.
0:34.5	Plus in the news could a fecal transplant
0:36.9	all to your personality?
0:38.8	Does the 21st of October 2015
0:41.4	ring any bells for you? We'll find out why it should later on, and what these
0:47.0	noisy creatures? Have in common with guys who like fast cars.
1:00.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK. Every year, more than 10,000 people in the UK suffer from a severe infection with
1:15.3	Clostridium difficile, that's known as C-DIF for short. It leads to severe long-term
1:20.1	diarrhea and inflammation in the intestine and it can be life-threatening.
1:23.2	Recently the idea of fecal transplants or transposions has been gaining traction
1:28.2	but according to an article in the British medical journal by Tim Specter from King's College
1:32.3	London there are some risks, as he explains,
1:35.0	to Katani.
1:36.0	It's been very hard to get figures, but the US is leading the world, I think, in this at the moment.
1:42.3	And there's one center in Boston that has all these poo donors
1:48.0	and is supplying over 430 centers across the US on a regular basis and they're shipping something like 50 different treatments, over 50 different treatments every single week.
2:02.0	What are the issues around having this relatively small pool of donors that is potentially
2:06.4	treating so many people?
2:08.3	It's crucial that the donors that are being used both in the US and in the UK are properly screened because the obvious
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