Hibernating for Deep Spaceflight with Ryan Sprenger

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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How close are we to enabling astronauts to go into deep sleep for long space journeys? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly team up with Ryan Sprenger, Senior Research Scientist at Fauna Bio, to explore whether humans can hibernate like animals do.

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0:00.0	guys am I right that we just did a whole show that answers the question does a bare shit in space?
0:06.7	Yes I did and I'm just I'm just upset that I didn't come up with that right there.
0:14.0	We got animals on earth that hibernate and if we're going to send people through space,
0:20.0	every sci-fi story is a hibernating crew and we finally found someone who's trying to solve that very problem.
0:27.8	Yes. Knowing that other mammals can do it and where a mammal last I checked.
0:32.8	So we went there on Star Talk Special Edition coming up.
0:37.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:41.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:46.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:50.0	This is Star Talk Special Edition.
0:55.0	And since it's Special Edition, you know my two co-host, Chuck Nice.
0:58.6	Chuck, how you doing, man?
0:59.4	Hey, Neil, I'm doing great, thanks.
1:01.9	And not only, Chuck, we've got Gary O'Reilly.
1:04.2	All right, Gary, welcome back.
1:05.5	Thank you.
1:06.2	Always a pleasure.
1:07.0	Today's topic is like, whoa, how come we didn't do this 10 years ago?
1:11.3	We're gonna talk about hibernation in space. Oh, don't sleep on this
1:17.7	subject. Oh, came in early. I want me some hibernation stories here.
1:24.4	So Gary, set the scene here.
1:25.8	What did you put together?
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