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Space Exploration & Missions
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Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2017-11 to 2021-03.
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Engineering physical shielding is a more effective solution for radiation protection than biological modification.
“the urge to try to find a biological solution to this I think will end up futile relative to what engineers can design and so it doesn't take much thickness of water for example to completely shield you from most of what's damaging from the sun”
StarTalk · Mar 2021 · 2 episodes · 733K views on this topic
Humanity has a moral duty to preserve life and prevent extinction, which necessitates future space travel and colonization.
“there is one duty that we have as humans that as soon as you understand it is actually something you can control and that you can have influence on the universe is just being aware of extinction we're the only species that we know of that is aware of extinction so then we have a duty to prevent it”
StarTalk · Mar 2021 · 1 episode · 171K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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