A 500-Year Plan To Reach Other Worlds - Christopher Mason | Modern Wisdom Podcast 357

Christopher Mason is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction and an author. Eventually, the sun is going to engulf the earth. This means that if we want human and animal life to not be snuffed out within a billion years, we need to reach other worlds and Christopher has put together a 500-years roadmap for how we could do it. Expect to learn why space flight is so harsh on the human body, how we could travel to other planets, whether humans can survive in space, what other planets we could live in, how genetic manipulation could assist us with survival, whether locking generations of humans on a spaceship is ethical, if zero gravity birth is possible, whether anyone has had sex in space yet, why we should bathe in yoghurt and much more... Sponsors: Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Reclaim your fitness and book a Free Consultation Call with ActiveLifeRX at http://bit.ly/rxwisdom Extra Stuff: Buy The Next 500 Years - https://amzn.to/3lwzkrY Check out Christopher's lab - https://masonlab.net/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #spaceflight #futurism #geneticengineering - 00:00 Intro 01:00 A Roadmap to Leave Earth 06:00 Our Duty as Conscious Beings 13:38 500 Years in the Future 16:57 Space’s Impact on Human Bodies 31:32 Evolving in Space 36:19 Ethics of Long-Term Space Travel 44:00 Social & Mental Issues in Space 47:09 Preparing to Colonise the Galaxy 55:56 Death of the Universe - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Christopher MasonguestChris Williamsonhost

Aug 12, 202159mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 12, 2021
Duration: 59m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Christopher Mason is a Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction and an author. Eventually, the sun is going to engulf the earth. This means that if we want human and animal life to not be snuffed out within a billion years, we need to reach other worlds and Christopher has put together a 500-years roadmap for how we could do it. Expect to learn why space flight is so harsh on the human body, how we could travel to other planets, whether humans can survive in space, what other planets we could live in, how genetic manipulation could assist us with survival, whether locking generations of humans on a spaceship is ethical, if zero gravity birth is possible, whether anyone has had sex in space yet, why we should bathe in yoghurt and much more... Sponsors: Get 40% discount on everything from boohooMAN at https://bit.ly/manwisdom (use code MW40) Reclaim your fitness and book a Free Consultation Call with ActiveLifeRX at http://bit.ly/rxwisdom Extra Stuff: Buy The Next 500 Years - https://amzn.to/3lwzkrY Check out Christopher's lab - https://masonlab.net/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom #spaceflight #futurism #geneticengineering - 00:00 Intro 01:00 A Roadmap to Leave Earth 06:00 Our Duty as Conscious Beings 13:38 500 Years in the Future 16:57 Space’s Impact on Human Bodies 31:32 Evolving in Space 36:19 Ethics of Long-Term Space Travel 44:00 Social & Mental Issues in Space 47:09 Preparing to Colonise the Galaxy 55:56 Death of the Universe - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Christopher Mason
guest
Chris Williamson
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Christopher Mason and Chris Williamson, A 500-Year Plan To Reach Other Worlds - Christopher Mason | Modern Wisdom Podcast 357 explores humanity’s 500-Year Mission: Engineering Life To Survive The Cosmos Christopher Mason outlines a 500‑year scientific and ethical roadmap for taking humanity off Earth, ultimately toward interstellar travel and settlement on habitable exoplanets. He argues that because we uniquely understand extinction, we have a moral duty to preserve and propagate life beyond a warming, finite Earth and an inevitably dying Sun. The conversation weaves together space medicine, genetics, gene editing ethics, long‑duration missions, and philosophical frameworks like his proposed “deontogenic ethics.” They also examine psychological, social, and political challenges of generation ships and space colonization, and how near‑term missions to Mars and private space stations fit into this long‑term vision.

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