Time To Transform Worlds | Sheyna Gifford | TEDxVienna

If we want to become an interplanetary species, it’s about time that life on Earth became more like life on Mars. Life on simulated Mars, as six of scientists and engineers experienced it for a year. During that year, a sort of new culture arose. Bringing some of that Martian survival-based ethos back to Earth might allow us to stop the clock on the current global trend: terraforming Earth into Venus.
Dr. Sheyna Gifford is a rehabilitation physician, aerospace researcher, journalist, STEM advocate, and NASA simulated astronaut. She was the health and safety officer and crew journalist for the longest US space simulation to date: 366 contiguous days in a Mars analog on Mauna Kea. Dr. Sheyna Gifford is a rehabilitation physician, aerospace researcher, journalist, STEM advocate, and NASA simulated astronaut. She was the health and safety officer and crew journalist for the longest US space simulation to date: 366 contiguous days in a Mars analog on Mauna Kea. She has four graduate degrees - business, biotechnology, journalism, and medicine - and hundreds of published articles. She's appeared on the History Channel's History Now Series, Vice, StarTalk, Beyond The Horizon, James Cameron's history of science fiction, and more. Her TEDx talk in how space needs everyone is the subject of her upcoming book. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx