Should you move to Mars?

Short & Curly

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Philosophy, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There are 1,000 people currently shortlisted for the trip of a lifetime, from which they will never return! They want to be the first stage in the human habitation of the red planet. But do humans have a right to inhabit other planets, and which humans specifically? Would colonizing Mars be a chance to create a better world from scratch, or will it become an environmental and ethical nightmare? Would you want to go?

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0:00.0	Hello and today you're listening.
0:04.3	Short you're listening to Short and Curly.
0:08.1	Yay!
0:09.1	Short and Curly!
0:10.1	Curly Curly Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly Curly Curly Curly Curly Curly Curly Curly
0:15.1	Charlie
0:15.9	Charlie
0:17.0	space Space should be for all of humankind.
0:25.0	We have to make Mars the future, or mankind is history.
0:29.0	You will literally have a generation of kids being taken out into a park late one night
0:35.8	and being shown this little shining red star in the sky and being told that's Mars
0:40.7	and people live there. Okay guys, buckle up.
0:45.0	Have we packed everything mole?
0:47.0	Uh, yeah, I think so. You got food, right?
0:50.0	And the solar batteries?
0:51.0	Yep, they're all, they're all stowed away. Matt, you've got them, right? Yep, they're all stowed away.
0:52.9	Matt, you've got them, right?
0:54.0	Yep, sure did.
0:55.0	Oh, did you pack my shoes?
0:56.3	Ah, no, no, no, you can only take one pair apparently.
0:59.0	Oh, farmer.
1:00.4	Okay, what about oxygen? Ah, I knew I'd forgotten something.
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