Scott Solomon

And even in those extreme environments, what we think of as extreme, you know, you can be in Antarctica and it's very cold, don't get me wrong, but you could still walk outside and breathe oxygen, right?

Your blood doesn't boil if there's a leak in your habitat the way it would on Mars.

So we're talking about a very different level of extreme when we talk about how extreme the environment is on Mars.

So yeah, I think you're right.

I think that it would be the first time that we,

would be knowingly putting ourselves in that extreme of an environment and trying to actually live there.

Yeah, so, you know, it's funny because we haven't been flying in space for that long, right?

Like, you know, we've got, what, 70 years of history of human spaceflight?

Yeah.

And, you know, in the early days, like we had no idea, like literally people thought like your eyes might pop out of your head if you go into space.

Like that was a question.

Could you swallow?

These were unanswered questions when people first went to space.

But we've learned a ton.

Like we know quite a bit now about if you were to, you know, get on a rocket, fly up to space.

uh, spend, you know, a couple of days there and come back.

I, you know, we could tell you with a lot of certainty, kind of what is likely to happen to your body.

And we know that like the main effects are the change in gravity, right?

You're in a weightless environment typically when you're in space.

And, um, and that does a lot to your body.