This Martian Life (Repeat)
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Sending humans to Mars used to seem like an impossible dream. But with the discovery of flowing water on Mars and the blockbuster movie "The Martian," even NASA is talking about a human mission to Mars. So why do people want to go to the Red Planet? We hear from a Mars One finalist and from the commander of one of NASA's Mars simulations; for 8 months she lived in a dome on the side of a volcano. Also, two science fiction heavyweights: Andy Weir describes the improbable origins of his blockbuster novel "The Martian," and Kim Stanley Robinson wonders what it would be like to travel to the nearest habitable star system 12 light years away. His answer? Like being trapped in a Motel 6. SEE NASA'S "MARS EXPLORERS WANTED" POSTERS HERE One in A Hundred: Finalist for Private Mars Program On Her Hopes and Fears; The Modern Mars MacGyver: Andy Weir on his Breakout Novel "The Martian"; Simulating Mars — From a Dome in Hawaii; Could Traveling to Mars Save Humanity?; Whistlers and Bow Shocks: Hearing the Sounds of Space; Leaving the Cradle: Kim Stanley Robinson on Traveling Beyond Our Star System.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for Wisconsin Public Radio comes from Ultra Federal Credit Union, featuring an online interactive guide to the first-time home buying process in addition to other information. |
| 0:11.2 | It's under Personal Services at ultra.org. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Anne Strange Champs, and lately I've been thinking about going to Mars. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, not me, but maybe you. And not just because they |
| 0:22.3 | found water on Mars, or because Matt Damon is there, but because of people like this. |
| 0:29.5 | I am Bas Lanzorpe and I am organizing a human mission to the planet Mars in the year |
| 0:34.6 | 2023. This will be, I believe, the most exciting event |
| 0:38.9 | in the history of humankind. |
| 0:40.9 | Humans will now be a multi-planetary species. |
| 0:44.3 | Buzz Landsdorp, Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin, |
| 0:47.6 | there are a lot of people right now |
| 0:49.2 | seriously talking about getting humans to Mars. |
| 0:53.6 | Here on to the best of our knowledge from PRI, we'll meet some of them. |
| 0:58.3 | My roommate at the time told me about the story. |
| 1:02.1 | They're offering a one-way trip to Mars for anybody, anybody could apply, you know, anybody |
| 1:08.3 | in the world. |
| 1:09.9 | And we started asking people about this, just like our friends and people we knew. |
| 1:17.0 | If you could go to Mars, but you could never come back when you go. |
| 1:20.6 | And it was like over 90% of the people we asked were like, no way that's crazy. |
| 1:28.1 | I really didn't think it was crazy. I thought it was a good idea. |
| 1:33.3 | Mead McClintock is 27 years old. She's got a degree in English and film, and she's loved |
| 1:39.1 | science fiction since she was a kid. She's currently on the short list for Mars 1, the project to send four people on a one-way trip to Mars. |
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