The Insane Biological Cost of Living on Mars - Scott Solomon - #1065
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | What's the NASA Chapier experiment? It's just hit the 100 day mark. |
| 0:06.7 | Yeah, it has. Yeah. So this is basically a, it's a simulation. It's a way of trying to understand what life would actually be like for people living on Mars. |
| 0:16.7 | And the way that they're doing this is by they've created a mock-up of a space settlement, |
| 0:25.0 | and they've built it in Johnson Space Center in Houston. |
| 0:29.6 | So just down the street from me here, really. |
| 0:32.2 | And it's built to be kind of like what they think it would actually be like on Mars, right? So they |
| 0:39.6 | actually 3D printed it, which is one of the technologies that has been suggested for how we |
| 0:45.4 | might build structures on Mars. And then a group of, I believe it's four, a crew of four people |
| 0:52.5 | have entered it and they are living inside it. |
| 0:57.4 | As you said, for 100 days so far, but the plan is for it to last a full year. |
| 1:02.9 | So this is kind of like a thing that people do when they're trying to understand what different aspects of space settlement might actually be like, |
| 1:12.4 | is they create what are called analogs, basically a model that sort of replicates some aspect |
| 1:18.9 | of a space environment, a space settlement in this case. |
| 1:24.1 | And then they put people inside and try to sort of understand what happens. |
| 1:29.2 | So this is the second one that they've done. |
| 1:31.6 | They did a full year already. |
| 1:34.7 | And this is the second full year study of people inside this kind of mock-up of a Mars habitat. |
| 1:43.6 | How much do you think the testing physiological... inside this kind of mock-up of a Mars habitat. |
| 1:50.9 | How much do you think they're testing physiological change versus psychological change? |
| 2:02.4 | Yeah, I think a lot of what these analog studies try to get at, and is true of this study as well, is the psychology. Because psychology because of course they can't replicate a lot of the physical conditions of being on Mars. You know, there's one-third the Earth's |
| 2:09.1 | gravity, right? They're not, they're not simulating that. There's probably going to be a lot higher |
| 2:13.6 | radiation exposure on, uh, in a Mars habitat and they're not, they're not simulating that. |
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