What It’s Like To Get a New Face, Why We Care About Mars So Much, And The Story of A Really Old Guy Who’s Smarter Than You

André Salvatierra

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4 min readFeb 28, 2021

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Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Yes, actually. Can you teach an old human new tricks? Depends on the human. That, plus exploring outer space beyond the moon and mars in this decade, a deep dive into facial transplants, and how virtual reality (or mixed reality) can help surgeons, aircraft engineers, and other smart people fix things without the risk of killing somebody or destroying expensive stuff.

This Episode’s Highlights:

What can we learn from one of the oldest people to ever earn a doctorate?
Also, we just got 30 gigs worth of photos and videos sent back to us from Mars — why should we care?
Then, what’s it like to wear a dead person’s face?

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Time Stamps:

00:00 … Episode Preview
00:38 … Welcome to the Show
01:35 … Can you teach an old dog new tricks?
02:18 … 104-year-old Lucio Caicedo Completes his Doctoral Thesis and Makes History
04:11 … Centenarian Wisdom regarded attitude towards work and life.
05:12 … The Mars Perseverance Rover lands on Mars — why it matters to us
06:48 … NASA’s Four Goals for exploring Mars
08:04 … A historical first that you may have flown under the radar… so to speak
08:56 … NASA’s plans and upcoming schedule for this decade
11:20 … A quick update on the podcast and upcoming plans
12:35 … What if you were forced to have your face replaced with the face of a dead person?
13:47 … The story of Mitch Hunter
14:12 … The story of Joe DiMeo
14:44 … The ramifications of living a life without a face
15:12 … What actually is facial transplant surgery and what exactly is involved?
17:21 … HoloLens and how you can practice surgery in virtual reality or mixed reality
20:40 … What is life actually life for people who get facial transplants? (Mitch and Joe’s stories)
25:10 … A quick history of facial transplants and first cases: the first partial face transplant and the first full facial transplant ever
26:50 … Featured track
27:52 … Episode wrap-up, the secret link, and a parting thought from Henry Ford