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Crazy/Genius

Should We Go to Mars?

Crazy/Genius

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Business, Society & Culture, Technology

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It’s our best hope for life after earth—and a freezing, irradiated desert more than 30 million miles away. In our season finale, scientists and writers debate whether colonizing Mars is the most important mission in the history of the human race, or an absurd daydream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast, sometimes it's better when you get weird, especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink, introducing new Dr Pepper Zero

0:12.6

with the same blend of 23 unique flavors,

0:15.4

it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper,

0:18.9

but with zero sugar and zero calories.

0:21.7

It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on.

0:24.1

Weird. But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. Eventually there's going to be a vast city on Mars and eventually maybe a whole planet like the Earth with oceans and lakes and all that and it'll be

0:44.0

really easy to live there. This is Tim Urban. He's a science writer at the website

0:48.9

Wait but Why. He spent a lot of time imagining our future on Mars.

0:53.0

On Mars, the gravity is less, it's a third of the Earth's gravity.

0:57.0

That's not so bad, and it's actually kind of fun.

0:58.0

You can like jump out of your second story window to go to work, you can like jump out of it,

1:02.0

like you jump off a five foot ledge

1:03.1

it's really everything just multiplied by three so if you can jump off a six foot

1:06.0

ledge right now no problem you can jump off an 18 foot ledge on Mars pretty

1:09.4

fun basketball there I was just I was just thinking yeah LeBron James can dunk on a what 30 foot there's gonna be a league there's gonna be a whole sports leagues

1:16.4

invented sports in general invented on Mars

1:19.7

but it won't be all fun and gravity-defying games

1:22.4

there's gonna be these industries of course you'll have an office you know the But it won't be all fun and gravity-defying games.

1:23.0

There's going to be these industries.

1:24.0

Of course, you'll have an office.

1:25.0

The companies will have an office on Mars.

1:26.2

You know, kids will go to Mars for college.

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