Life on Mars and Heaven on Earth with Pamela Conrad

Down the Wormhole

Episode 117

Today, we are joined by the one and only Rev. Dr. Pamela Conrad. is the rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Glen Burnie, Maryland. She’s also an astrobiologist and planetary scientist specializing in understanding how planets do or do not evolve into habitable environments, and she is presently involved in the exploration of Mars with the Perseverance Rover and its companion, the Ingenuity helicopter. She has explored extreme environments all over the Earth including in the high arctic, Antarctica, Death Valley, and the deep sea hydrothermal vents of the Pacific sea floor, to name a few.

We talk about life on other planets, cherishing life on this planet, the future of the church, the lessons we can learn from entropy, and so much more.

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produced by Zack Jackson
music by Zack Jackson and Barton Willis