Dr. Andy Galpin
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Podcast Appearances
We didn't call it that, but that's what it was.
And then we got to the year 2000 or so and we realized, oh, fuck.
Maybe that was the wrong target.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, shout out, Michael.
It's a great book.
When we have astronauts come back from the International Space Station, getting people to live on Mars, it's a bit of a rocket problem, but it's a bigger physiology problem.
And this HDT project, part of the people we're working with is Cody Burkhardt, who runs Human Works at NASA.
Figuring out that line of going, hey, you don't want to release stress.
If you do, like what happens when we send people up to space because there's no gravity, your physiology tanks really quickly.
They come back, oftentimes astronauts come back and they can't physically walk for a few days.
Because in that case, that aspect, now other aspects of stress are way up.
We've lost some of the core tenets that it means to be human, and we are not ready for that.
We are not ready at all to be able to be told, oh yeah, run this scan, and here's the exact culmination of life you need to run.
Not even counting the ethics behind all that.
The ethics of genetic testing alone are really, really interesting, to say the least.
The ethics of doing something like that
We have not thought through this stuff, right?
Collectively, we.
There is more in our world and our human experience than just straight answers, right?