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#271 – Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Long Does It Take to Travel to Mars Asking for a Friend?

If you're in orbit for any significant period of time, there's going to be a lot more physiological changes to your body than if you just did an afternoon flight on the vomit comment. Everything from your bones, your muscles, your eyeballs, change shape. There's a lot of different things that happen for a long duration space flight. And we still have to solve a lot of these interesting challenges to be able to keep humans thriving in microgravity or deep duration space missions.

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