Scott Solomon

Yeah, I think that's a good way to think about it.

Psychological traits, definitely, and skills.

I mean, think about who are the people you would want to send to establish a new human population on Mars?

I mean, you want people who are likely to be able to handle tough situations, but you also want people who know how to do all different sorts of things, you know?

You need different skills.

You need different, you know, personality traits.

But you also want to make sure you've enhanced the kind of, you know, probability of success by making sure it's also a genetically diverse group of people.

You know, I mean, the more genetically diverse it is, the more opportunity there is for natural selection to be able to help people to adapt in future generations.

Um, yeah, you know, it's, I think it would have to be quite different from how we have kind of historically chosen who gets to go to space.

Right.

Well, so there's kind of this like famous book from I think in 1979 called The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.

I don't know if you ever read that.

It's like one of the classic accounts of the early days of the U.S.

space program.

But that that title, that idea of the right stuff, like who is it that has the right stuff that gets to be.

the select few that go to space.

And at least initially for the US, it was all, well, first of all, it was all men, it was all white men.

And then it was all like actually Navy test pilots, right?

So they took them from the military.

It was only people who were already in the military and they were chosen for their ability to be able to handle the physical aspects of a launch and being in space.