The Limitations and Constraints of Life

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In the far future maybe three, four hundred years from now, if we could work on the ways that animals and plants work together, you could embed chloroplasts in human skin. If you only wanted to lay outside for just say one hour to get your days fully, you know, your days fully value of energy, you'd need about two tennis courts worth of skin. But if they plan it, then their shadows would block your sun. So maybe you'd leave your side skin out there and you could roll up your skin and go back inside after about one hour. That's something I've dreamed about since I was a kid. It's always, everybody lives in a prison.

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(0:00) – Introduction
(7:43) – Human extinction awareness
(16:29) – Heat death of the universe
(22:05) – Alone in the universe
(25:41) – Aliens
(33:50) – Entropy goggles
(48:04) – Genetics
(56:14) – Scott Kelly
(1:02:12) – Adapting to space
(1:12:13) – Sex in space
(1:14:46) – Colonizing planets
(1:21:25) – Culture on Mars
(1:25:51) – Commercial space flights
(1:33:09) – Podcast in space
(1:40:43) – Axiom Space
(1:42:59) – Designing space experiments
(1:49:49) – Robots in space
(1:52:30) – Space exploration
(1:56:28) – War in space
(2:00:05) – Launch toward the Second Sun
(2:06:14) – Chlorohumans
(2:11:50) – Extreme microbiome project
(2:18:17) – Space travel breakthroughs
(2:30:15) – Clones
(2:36:08) – AI age prediction
(2:41:38) – Advice for young people
(2:47:56) – Dark times
(2:52:19) – Mortality
(2:56:37) – Visiting ISS and deep space
(2:57:46) – Meaning of life