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OUTLINE:

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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