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S8 Ep1233: Christopher Mason, a geneticist and NASA investigator and author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, out
Christopher Mason, a geneticist and NASA investigator and author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, outlines a 500-year plan to enable human survival beyond Earth. Central to his vision is the deontogenic ethical framework, which asserts that humanity has a "genetic duty" to serve as guardians of life across the universe. To facilitate interstellar travel on generation ships, Mason proposes using advanced tools like CRISPR to edit human genomes and epigenomes to survive extreme environments. This includes adapting biological lessons from tardigrades for radiation…
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