Boy oh boy, when we said we had a part two coming, we didn't know it'd be all this. But here we are, back again to talk about the strangeness of isolation. When it comes to living in isolation, the concept takes takes a few different forms. This week on The What If? Podcast, we do a follow up on last week's eerily timed episode, and put out an update on John Chau, the American missionary who was killed on North Sentinel Island, just days before we put our episode on The Sentinelese people.

From there, we shift gears to talking about isolation in space. NASA has spent millions of dollars over the years, studying the effects of isolation on both individuals and groups. One of their most prominent studies has been on Hawaii, in the execution of the HI-SEAS program. Six missions over the past five years have gone, to varying degrees of success, in creating an analog world that recreates the isolation of a mission crew on (or on their way to) Mars.

How did it go? Why did the sixth mission fail after just four days? How much can we make fun of NASA's bad YouTube videos? Find out this week, on The What If? Podcast.

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