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Danny Jones

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Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

But that seems very aggressive.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Well, it would be probably better if you could launch from the moon, you know?

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Yeah.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

If you could set up launch pads on the moon or somehow get enough resources there, it would be probably far easier.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

And this just popped into my head.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

I remember this when I talked to Tim Dodd was we found, there was this article that talked about this discovery of this fungus.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Have you seen it?

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

This Chernobyl fungus that was found in Chernobyl where there was a nuclear meltdown decades ago.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

And allegedly there's this like fungi that's growing in like ground zero of Chernobyl.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

And they found that it actually eats radiation.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

So they're hypothesizing that this mysterious black fungus could be used in the space capsules or where they're transporting these people across deep space and it could protect them from the radiation.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Show the first, what does the first paragraph of it say?

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Mold found at the site of Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off radiation.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

So they're thinking that they could use this to shield the space travels from the cosmic rays.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Insane.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Now we have not found any evidence of any kind of microorganisms on Mars yet, right?

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

Well, Elon was saying that there's so much ice on Mars, not even at the poles, like all around Mars that's just covered in dust.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

He said if you were to heat up that planet, he believes that you would have mile-deep oceans covering about 40% of it.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

And he thinks that about 4 billion years ago, it was a blue planet just like Earth.

Danny Jones Podcast
#400 - "I Won’t Return” NASA Astrobiologist to be First Human on Mars | Alyssa Carson

and that we possibly came from.