Could We Terraform Mars?

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Humanity’s future is glorious. As we master space travel, we’ll hop from one lifeless world to the next. Life will blossom in our path and the galaxy with shimmer with beautiful Earth-like orbs. Hmmm… maybe. This won’t sound so far fetched if we prove we can do it at least once. If we successfully terraform Mars.
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We already have the technology to bring humans safely to Mars and set up small settlements - or at least could do within a generation. But those settlements will need to be cocooned - shielded against the deadly cold, intense radiation, and the fatal lack of atmospheric pressure. Surely if we want to thrive on Mars - to make it into our second home - these settlers, or their descendants, will need to be able open the airlocks, shed their spacesuits, and step out onto a survivable surface. We’ll need to terraform Mars, as our first step in terraforming the galaxy.
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  • @Barwasser
    @Barwasser4 жыл бұрын

    3:05 "Surely we can just nuke the Poles" *Polish people sweating profusely*

  • @MegaLol2xd

    @MegaLol2xd

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad that hitler didn't thought about it!

  • @jdlives8992

    @jdlives8992

    4 жыл бұрын

    BeWater dude. Well played top kek

  • @muchozolf

    @muchozolf

    4 жыл бұрын

    Duuude... not cool...

  • @danielkasprowicz5785

    @danielkasprowicz5785

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're profoundly stupid. Profoundly - to a profound extent; extremely Profusely - to a great degree; in large amounts

  • @Pllayer064

    @Pllayer064

    4 жыл бұрын

    😆 KURWA ZAJEBISTE

  • @tigerstripes7427
    @tigerstripes74274 жыл бұрын

    Lego sponsoring a video about re-building planets (essentially) is so oddly appropriate.

  • @Nw-zh1uq

    @Nw-zh1uq

    4 жыл бұрын

    We need a freaking atmosphere Stupid core is solid which means there is no magnetic field

  • @twenty-fifth420

    @twenty-fifth420

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Nw-zh1uq Atmosphere is probably the 'easy' part. All you really need to do is blow up the poles as well as harvest all the carbon dioxide in the dust AND find other elements such as nitrogen and hydrogen, likely harvested either from the moon, earth itself or the nearby asteroid belt. The magnetic field part as far as I know is currently 'impossible'. We can technically build two giant magnets and put them near the poles to simulate a magnetic field, but we would need magnets so much more powerful then we have ever made and honestly, we still have to maintain the field with power so it would be practically impossible with the limited energy potential of the planet (our only option is nuclear since solar power is less effective on mars, there is no coal and oil, and fusion right now is still in development.) Possible, but give or take a few centuries.

  • @Nw-zh1uq

    @Nw-zh1uq

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@twenty-fifth420 But without a magnetic field the solar "winds" will remove it little by little. I tihnk i saw that on another sci show episode somewhere \

  • @KarelPletsStriker

    @KarelPletsStriker

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually Quantum mechanics forbids this

  • @USSGobLin

    @USSGobLin

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is easy to do theoretically. But we are looking at a time scale of centuries to begin and thousands of years or longer before the first life can be introduced. We would have to also have a way to control solar radiation that reaches Mars to control how fast we can cool the surface. I had this discussion with Dr Freeman Dyson years ago. First you redirect asteroids from the belt and have them collide at specific points based on Mars' trajectory and increasing mass to maintain proper orbit and do so until the entire planet becomes molten to restart the core. Then wait for the surface to cool. Time scales are large and Dr Dyson said it probably would be feasible to start within 500 years based on our current technology.

  • @tesfayet11
    @tesfayet113 жыл бұрын

    The more I hear about Mars, I learn how special earth is!!!

  • @PraveenSriram

    @PraveenSriram

    2 жыл бұрын

    I definitely agree with you on that statement!!! Very true! Have a great day

  • @EL-ISS

    @EL-ISS

    2 жыл бұрын

    Statistically, Earth is a rare and beautiful blue pearl. 90% of all planets and moons are not hospitable, at least not for humans and the wildlife on our globe. So we're a mathematical anomaly. Just a chance that happened to occur. Which is why we need to take care of our planet the same way she takes care of us.

  • @PraveenSriram

    @PraveenSriram

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@EL-ISS you stated your point very succinctly 🤩

  • @benyosep5640

    @benyosep5640

    2 жыл бұрын

    Only some lonely nerd would want to move to lifeless mars. Such a stupid ideal and waste of money. Just move to the California desert.

  • @zub41r75

    @zub41r75

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@EL-ISS God told us this many years ago but let's not pay attention becausd our egos may get hurt

  • @jeffwisener1378
    @jeffwisener13783 жыл бұрын

    I would be more confident if we could clean up the water in Detroit first 😆.

  • @Novarcharesk

    @Novarcharesk

    3 жыл бұрын

    Given this was caused by, and continues to persist because of the incompetence of the state, the way to address the problem first is to get rid of that dead weight. But everyone loves the government. It gives free things, right?

  • @coldwynn

    @coldwynn

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Novarcharesk Weasel for whatever cause. Any citizen initiative is not impeded.

  • @Novarcharesk

    @Novarcharesk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@coldwynn Your comment is incomprehensible.

  • @tepx93

    @tepx93

    2 жыл бұрын

    Easier to start somewhere that doesn’t have people getting in the way.

  • @ChancreSaurusRex

    @ChancreSaurusRex

    2 жыл бұрын

    What’s wrong with the water in Detroit?

  • @northernskies86
    @northernskies863 жыл бұрын

    Earth: "We have to stop global warming!" Mars: "We need global warming!"

  • @Joshua_N-A

    @Joshua_N-A

    3 жыл бұрын

    Let's burn fossil on Mars! Imagine we all drive gas guzzling muscle cars as daily drive.

  • @egg6220

    @egg6220

    3 жыл бұрын

    MAHZ*

  • @haze6647

    @haze6647

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Joshua_N-A except, you forget that fire wont lit without oxygen, which render your combustion engine useless.

  • @Dopefish1337

    @Dopefish1337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@haze6647 There's a lot of CO2 on mars, so if you could extract the oxygen from that, problem solved

  • @haze6647

    @haze6647

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Dopefish1337 we need global warming on mars ➡️ we need more CO2 ➡️ ok lets fire up our gas engine cars ➡️ but we need O2 to fire it ➡️ lets extract it from mars CO2 ??? Why don't you directly... nah forget it.

  • @kerravon4159
    @kerravon41593 жыл бұрын

    I love how whenever a headline is phrased as a question, the answer is inevitably no.

  • @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038

    @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038

    3 жыл бұрын

    As a subscriber to Issac Arthur I disagree. :P Sure, impossible currently, but if we become a post-scarcity civilization then it is absolutely possible.

  • @luddity

    @luddity

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 How can there be a post-scarcity civilization when civilizations run on scarcity?

  • @jarryd8167

    @jarryd8167

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@luddity A revolution in the way our civilizations work, achieved through advancement in technology. Essentially, all our production and manufacturing jobs will be done robots, along with us gaining the ability to produce enough resources to take care of everyone's basic needs without breaking a sweat. We aren't there yet, but I hope we will be soon.

  • @Marco-zt2jj

    @Marco-zt2jj

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jarryd8167 basic needs keep changing. We can already take care of everyone's basic needs, with 1900 standards, but then home appliances were invented (dishwasher, fridge, ...) and they became a basic need, then cars, now things smartphones and PCs, access to the internet, are all considered basic needs, we will never be satisfied, as things become more and more accessible what was previously considered a luxury becomes a need, so I don't think there will ever be such thing as "post scarcity"

  • @amc1140

    @amc1140

    3 жыл бұрын

    You love it?

  • @SgtMacska
    @SgtMacska3 жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile on Mars: “could we marsiform Earth?”

  • @Anush_Sivakumar

    @Anush_Sivakumar

    2 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @yoavboaz1078

    @yoavboaz1078

    2 жыл бұрын

    humans are already doing it for them

  • @joemcgilton2091

    @joemcgilton2091

    2 жыл бұрын

    We can certainly Venusiate it if we keep going at this rate.

  • @bunjier4041

    @bunjier4041

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joemcgilton2091 Muh climate change!

  • @savage5757

    @savage5757

    23 күн бұрын

    How did you manage to intercept the rovers' communications?

  • @danwhitehurst9592
    @danwhitehurst95922 жыл бұрын

    Neil DeGrass Tyson had a great comment about if we would ever teraform Mars if we had to leave earth because we damaged the planet. “ if we had the technology to teraform another planet why wouldn’t we just fix our own planet first”

  • @jordanbeard874

    @jordanbeard874

    Жыл бұрын

    Our own planet is fine don't listen to the doomer end of the world narrative from the news

  • @AwesomeFinish

    @AwesomeFinish

    Жыл бұрын

    Because the problem is overpopulation and there really is no way to fix it other than mandating population control or finding another place for humans to live. Overpopulation is killing the planet.

  • @rickrussell579

    @rickrussell579

    Жыл бұрын

    Cuz we aren't hobbits, and if we stay here, we won't have a place to send all the politicians in the future. Let's keep earth for ourselves, but give the politicians mars

  • @jeffwisener1378

    @jeffwisener1378

    Жыл бұрын

    Bingo. Neil's answer comes from a place of intelligence combined with wisdom. Musk's desire to Terraform Mars comes from a place of intelligence with a lack of wisdom.

  • @EmilyTienne

    @EmilyTienne

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jeffwisener1378 Musk is just another egotistical POS.

  • @LoopHoleLeeRoy
    @LoopHoleLeeRoy4 жыл бұрын

    Watching videos about Terra-forming other planets makes me have a greater appreciation for Earth.

  • @HansLemurson

    @HansLemurson

    4 жыл бұрын

    Even the worst environmental catastrophes or apocalypses still leave the earth as being far more habitable than any other planet in our solar system. We'd still have abundant water an atmosphere relatively rich in oxygen, and a working magnetic field!

  • @OuttaMyMind911

    @OuttaMyMind911

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@HansLemurson True, that's what makes any scifi movie/TV that has humans forced from earth due to some disaster seem odd. Even a horribly wrecked earth would likely be more survivable than most other options.

  • @codeisawesome369

    @codeisawesome369

    4 жыл бұрын

    HansLemurson not to mention perfect gravity which isn’t really addressed even in the non-bubble solutions in the video...

  • @ananyaaloke2433

    @ananyaaloke2433

    4 жыл бұрын

    @tommy aronson I am a Martian and I agree

  • @rednecktash

    @rednecktash

    4 жыл бұрын

    i think it would be easier if we had a bigger selection of planets, from other solar systems especially

  • @Lesbiologist
    @Lesbiologist3 жыл бұрын

    "We cannot restart Mars' magnetic field... [by] melting the core." Sounds like quitter talk!

  • @drownsinkoolaid4203

    @drownsinkoolaid4203

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds to me like a job for the space dwarves to make a difference!

  • @MichaelHenriques

    @MichaelHenriques

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nonsense. I have seen the documentary disguised as a file...The Core

  • @mrdude-fo6uv

    @mrdude-fo6uv

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes we can Mabel

  • @SolarizeYourLife

    @SolarizeYourLife

    3 жыл бұрын

    We need more mass (iron pacifically) to start and have enough magnetic field...

  • @quelorepario

    @quelorepario

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@SolarizeYourLife iron "pacifically" lol ffs. Yes, we signed an armistice with martians, lets not start a war

  • @mattsamoto4451
    @mattsamoto4451 Жыл бұрын

    some of this goes right over my head, but I enjoy the content and try to learn what i can from explanations. Plus space is just cool, so yeah.

  • @AngloSaxon-yx8tk

    @AngloSaxon-yx8tk

    9 ай бұрын

    I would say for the average person most of it goes right over our heads but at least we do have a basic foundational idea of such a scientific approach to all this. However it all raises a question, what are the odds of this actually being a success?

  • @scienceontheright
    @scienceontheright3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Venus' clouds are a better target for our first off-world home.

  • @rschloch

    @rschloch

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. Slightly more practical in terms of how much terraforming will be required.

  • @michaeldmingo1525

    @michaeldmingo1525

    3 жыл бұрын

    The size of Venus is much better and the Gravity is much closer to Earth. All we really need to do is reduce the Atmosphere. So that the Air Pressure is closer to Earths.

  • @rschloch

    @rschloch

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@michaeldmingo1525 oh, is that all we have to do?

  • @CHIEF__

    @CHIEF__

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sure, but it's physically closer to the sun so the long-term "escaping the expanding sun" problem is even worse. It really wouldn't be worthwhile making it the first non-Earth habitable planet, but maybe the second, used for mining and gas harvesting.

  • @michaeldmingo1525

    @michaeldmingo1525

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CHIEF__ The Sun should not be expanding for over a Billion years so Venus should be fine for now. If we really want to escape a Super Nova or Exploding Sun we would need to be getting further away than Mars. Probably past Jupiter and Saturn. Most likely out of the Solar System just to be safe.

  • @hultanu
    @hultanu3 жыл бұрын

    I love and hate PBS Space Time. Love them for being so damn interesting and educative.. But i hate them because i start looking at one video and BOOM, its 4:00 AM. You have to wake up in 4 hours and get to work.

  • @valiroime

    @valiroime

    3 жыл бұрын

    Luxury... You mean wake up in 1hour, not 4 if I’m not mistaken.

  • @wilcoxp2002

    @wilcoxp2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@valiroime Right...me Too. Up at 4:00 to be at work by 8:00 and then home a little after 5:00. Moring life (4 hours), work (8 hours), the after work life (4 Hours), and then sleep (8 hours). That's my 24 hours every stink'n day...

  • @niIIer1
    @niIIer14 жыл бұрын

    "A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER IN MARS CITY..."

  • @unsharded8503

    @unsharded8503

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Max_Le_Groom u just messed evrything up

  • @scharrk

    @scharrk

    4 жыл бұрын

    *Florida man

  • @DeuceGenius

    @DeuceGenius

    4 жыл бұрын

    yet he could easily swim and float to safety, wasnt even hurt by the fall

  • @Dryfire-kx9hu

    @Dryfire-kx9hu

    4 жыл бұрын

    What do you do check it out or ignor

  • @user-gr2wy8no3v

    @user-gr2wy8no3v

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh no

  • @EazymoneyBicch
    @EazymoneyBicch2 жыл бұрын

    So far I'm 19(of 250+) videos into the massive playlist of ALL Spacetime videos. The wonderful part of this is that at the end of each video I get a "sneak peek" of what the next video is about!!!! I absolutely love it...

  • @MrCharlesdick
    @MrCharlesdick2 жыл бұрын

    we could hypothetically tunnel a few miles down into Mars, establishing an underground atmosphere. There isn't enough gravity to do much with the surface.

  • @PCLoadLetter

    @PCLoadLetter

    2 жыл бұрын

    You could do that on Earth. It’d be easier. I’m more interested in belt colonies. Much less grief than terraforming. Provided we can tolerate living in spin gravity stations.

  • @SeattlePioneer

    @SeattlePioneer

    3 ай бұрын

    Why go to Mars? FAR simpler to do that on earth, if people decide they want to live as moles.

  • @theworstomen5326
    @theworstomen53263 жыл бұрын

    Thats just a greenscreen hes not actually in space guys.

  • @minttea6358

    @minttea6358

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh NOOO! My life is a damn lie!

  • @judddavis3548

    @judddavis3548

    3 жыл бұрын

    I want my money back. Wait a minute?

  • @gregw1907

    @gregw1907

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh thank god. You had me worried.

  • @stevelowe2647

    @stevelowe2647

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was terrified for him

  • @judddavis3548

    @judddavis3548

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stevelowe2647 Your a good man to care for him. Its lonely in space. Hehe

  • @tycel2004
    @tycel20044 жыл бұрын

    I'm more of a we should build a station on the moon first kind of guy

  • @AhmedAshraf-pd7mu

    @AhmedAshraf-pd7mu

    4 жыл бұрын

    well, I think this is actually what NASA announced they are planing to do in the near future

  • @CalebEade

    @CalebEade

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah nahhh annd i like Uranus let me explain i like methan annd water so i'mma go live in uranus and i'll have a massage by high pressure

  • @howardmiller5381

    @howardmiller5381

    4 жыл бұрын

    I agree. Most anything we learn on the moon will be useful on Mars. The moon has the added advantages of lower escape velocity and aborting to Earth if things go badly.

  • @webmasale

    @webmasale

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, maybe there are unknown resources in Mars. I believe they found something there that caught their attention and want to go for it.

  • @howardmiller5381

    @howardmiller5381

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, I'm too old to even apply. But I think a catastrophe in early days would put colonization off for decades.

  • @Evan.the.Butler
    @Evan.the.Butler Жыл бұрын

    The idea of the dome cities remind me of Luna (the Moon) from The Formic Wars series. But if we're considering extreme futuristic tech, what would it take to restart Mars' magnetosphere? Would just melting the core work, or would we have to constantly remelt it since a continual strong heat source doesn't exist?

  • @anthonylepore516

    @anthonylepore516

    Жыл бұрын

    No ! Remember in Total Recall, when Arnold puts his hand on that alien computer console, and then the core started to reheat and all of a sudden breathable air circulated saving all the weirdo’s living on mars? So there you go!

  • @Hansulf

    @Hansulf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@anthonylepore516 Oh, I thought It just melted the ice caps/undeground gas reservoirs. I guess we could also drill as close to the core as we could as fill holes with radioactive elements to reheat Mars core. I dont know where would we get that radioactive material from though. I think is much easier to just throw the whole Asteroid belt towards Mars 😂😂

  • @denalozecon9074

    @denalozecon9074

    8 ай бұрын

    The Core (movie) had Humans going to the core of Earth to restart Earth's magnetosphere. I don't know what part of that movie was the most unscientific, but it was all impossible with any known technology and even technologies that could be considered plausible within 1000 years...unless Singularity happens and it is an immediate Tech increase to Star Trek levels. Star Trek Federation could do this; not how it is done in The Core, but they do have many other neat technologies. The Core is not good science, but it is fine as entertainment. Anyway with current technology it is just impossible to do this on Mars, even if getting to Mars cost nothing at all for unlimited resources from Earth, even with a budget of $10 trillion also...still not possible. Possible with known physics? Uh yeah I think so? But you would need a civilization that can make 100+ mile Tungsten Drills AND a ridiculous cooling system to keep the drill from melting while drilling through 2000 miles of rock AND then your heat source to melt the core of Mars. All of that is technically possible, but would need technology and a civilization in the Kardishev 1 level at least = millions of times wealthier than Humans on Earth are today.

  • @Evan.the.Butler

    @Evan.the.Butler

    8 ай бұрын

    @@denalozecon9074 I was thinking more gravitational tech. If we shoot gravity waves from multiple directions towards Mars' core in a way such that they constructively interfere only in Mars' core, we could deposit significant amounts of energy in the core without drilling down. Assuming I'm not missing something, this could melt Mars' core and **maybe** restart a magnetosphere? IDK how plausible that is, but since it would take thousands to millions of years to cool down again, we'd only have to do it infrequently

  • @denalozecon9074

    @denalozecon9074

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Evan.the.Butler I like your idea. There are multiple issues. 1st: While astronomers claim to detect gravity waves, they are not directly detecting gravity, but instead detecting the effect of gravity that corresponds roughly with the time a supernova is detected. So detection of two Neutron Stars smacking together; if you look up the mass of a neutron star then do the inertia calculation of two of them hitting each other at over 500,000 mph? That is a huge huge smack! My mph was a wag but Neutron Stars are supposed to have a surface gravity of 1000 to millions of gravities; if they approach at 100,000 mph from a big distance of millions of miles the gravity effect between them increases exponentially as they get closer...and would accelerate them more the closer they get. 2nd: That is the only event I have heard of that has been detected as a gravity effect; detecting instruments moving a really tiny amount. Really really tiny amount! So an event that big is almost not detectable as a gravity effect. Any attempt with any feasible technology Humans have today to duplicate that...maxes out at inducing a couple asteroids to hit each other at say 150,000 mph as my wag. Even if both asteroids are 100 trillion tons the impact force would create a gravity effect that is omnidirectional and so tiny a mosquito landing on your arm is a larger effect. So a controllable gravity beam or something else Star Trek might talk about is just not at all possible with known technology. 3rd: Just assume for a moment some smart people DO invent a Gravity Beam in this century? Unless it is some really Post Singularity insanity of a technology...it seems likely it would have an effect proportional to the total mass of the device = be useless for reaching through 2000 miles of Mars rock and STILL having a power level that is useful. 4th: All that aside your idea would be very cool as a sci fi tech. However it works it would be usable at one Trillionth the level of what you need to heat Mars core; as either a Tractor Beam like Star Trek or some exotic weapon with a cool name for the Sci Fi story. So my point is your idea is great as an idea. But Unubtanium from The Core is called that for a reason; any neat idea that seems impossible...

  • @terryharris1291
    @terryharris12912 жыл бұрын

    Local Terra forming would be the way to go,a lot better result for the effort and cost.

  • @cherriedquat
    @cherriedquat4 жыл бұрын

    Lego sponsoring PBS Space Time? That's like pieces falling into the right places! I'm in awe!

  • @troy6716

    @troy6716

    4 жыл бұрын

    But can we successfully terraform Lego Planet?

  • @amayjahmusic7494

    @amayjahmusic7494

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Spanishfutbol2010
    @Spanishfutbol20104 жыл бұрын

    If we can’t get a magnetic field going then building the atmosphere is pointless. It’ll just get stripped away again

  • @horgeelrodrigo4904

    @horgeelrodrigo4904

    4 жыл бұрын

    If EM Field emitters and receivers are set up on the poles, we could have a controllable and long term field going on.

  • @OceanHedgehog

    @OceanHedgehog

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@horgeelrodrigo4904 Perfect. We control the emitters and receivers from Earth, so if the Martian colonists ever get uppity, we can space them. Earth Must Come First!

  • @ukbossraptv1743

    @ukbossraptv1743

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fr33styler we don’t need to terraform Africa tho got all the resources it needs internally

  • @danielroden9424

    @danielroden9424

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Fr33styler we can turn desert into farm land. its not economically viable because earth has millions of acres of already arable land that sit unfarmed. for future martian inhabitants might want more land but if the domes are cheaper thats the route they will take.

  • @horgeelrodrigo4904

    @horgeelrodrigo4904

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Fr33styler We'll do it when we can do it.

  • @Articulate99
    @Articulate99 Жыл бұрын

    Always interesting, thank you.

  • @neilorion9953
    @neilorion99532 жыл бұрын

    We could also build a ring of superconducter around the equator to provide the magnetic field with london effest

  • @joebaumgart1146
    @joebaumgart11464 жыл бұрын

    Im sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can not let you do that.

  • @hindsightpov4218

    @hindsightpov4218

    4 жыл бұрын

    🎵Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, I'm half crazy, All for the love of you.🎵

  • @teaser6089

    @teaser6089

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah this is big brain time

  • @korolev-musictodriveby6583

    @korolev-musictodriveby6583

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chapeau, Joe 😂😂😂😂

  • @ph11p3540

    @ph11p3540

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pulling logic modules from HALs core. "Keep singing HAL"

  • @namedyukinne4398

    @namedyukinne4398

    4 жыл бұрын

    Because DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVEEEEE!!!

  • @duncanw9901
    @duncanw99014 жыл бұрын

    Bruh thats gonna need efficiency 5 haste 2

  • @INGIE32

    @INGIE32

    4 жыл бұрын

    Duncan W and Mending too

  • @jonathanodude6660

    @jonathanodude6660

    4 жыл бұрын

    Unbreaking 4

  • @justin8910
    @justin89103 жыл бұрын

    We can’t even stop bombing ourselves over story books about blokes who apparently lived thousands of years ago.

  • @Adityarm.08

    @Adityarm.08

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sad but true.

  • @christiancarrera4476

    @christiancarrera4476

    2 жыл бұрын

    We to terraform religions... and by terraforming them I mean bury them so deep within the earth that nobody can know about them.

  • @MJDavis143
    @MJDavis143 Жыл бұрын

    People keep talking about Mars, but I just can't get passed one thing, the goldilocks zone. Mars has moved through this area and is now at the last part of this zone, as everything continues to expand. The earth is about halfway through. If we are going to terraform anything we should do it with a planet that has just started its way into this zone, or put the same amount of effort into perfecting the one we are already on.

  • @stephennelson4954
    @stephennelson49544 жыл бұрын

    Can we Terraform Mars? PBS Space Time: "Well yes, but technically no."

  • @alfonsogaona6028

    @alfonsogaona6028

    4 жыл бұрын

    Can we terraform mars? "Well no but technically no" we can't terraform half an acre on the moon, so get real.

  • @eveningchaos1

    @eveningchaos1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alfonso Gaona We also can't keep this planet habitable. If our record as curators of the blue planet is any indicator, we probably won't do any better with the red planet.

  • @seanomeirs8362

    @seanomeirs8362

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd be happy to re-terraform Earth.

  • @alfonsogaona6028

    @alfonsogaona6028

    4 жыл бұрын

    I vote for leaving mars the way we found it, anyone with me?

  • @selfishbeats

    @selfishbeats

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@eveningchaos1 well, scientist and the like are being planned to be sent, not idiots.

  • @palindromia130
    @palindromia1303 жыл бұрын

    "...if we successfully terraform MAHZ"

  • @rebeccaerb9935

    @rebeccaerb9935

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @Cosmicmorales

    @Cosmicmorales

    3 жыл бұрын

    lmao

  • @palindromia130

    @palindromia130

    3 жыл бұрын

    @D4NI nah i actually like the Australian accent lol

  • @dazza2350

    @dazza2350

    3 жыл бұрын

    @D4NI 'yeas, we are goin' ta mahrz in twenny twenny six'

  • @ultimathule1000

    @ultimathule1000

    3 жыл бұрын

    @D4NI : no, just Mars. MARS. Do you understand ???

  • @James_Knott
    @James_Knott9 ай бұрын

    Re magnetic field. As you mentioned in the last episode, all we have to do is bring a bunch of fridge magnets. 🙂

  • @Acein2056
    @Acein20562 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. It's refreshing to hear someone that's not from la-la land.

  • @pringles1717
    @pringles17174 жыл бұрын

    We should genetically engineer super farting cows and fly them to Mars with Shepard scientists

  • @bookslug2919

    @bookslug2919

    4 жыл бұрын

    more efficient to engineer super-farting-flying-space-cow-scientists

  • @michaelmeyers4843

    @michaelmeyers4843

    4 жыл бұрын

    No need. I exist.

  • @lemob182

    @lemob182

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dude you're a - Genius, actually... 🤔

  • @donkeytwoddle

    @donkeytwoddle

    2 жыл бұрын

    essentially my thoughts.. If the cows were simple cell life.

  • @Czeckie
    @Czeckie4 жыл бұрын

    in a life of every science youtuber there comes a time where they make a mars terraforming video

  • @__mk_km__

    @__mk_km__

    4 жыл бұрын

    ...Sponsored by LEGO

  • @andrewsmith1735

    @andrewsmith1735

    4 жыл бұрын

    If they were really about science why not venus.

  • @HeloisGevit

    @HeloisGevit

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@andrewsmith1735 Both are equally outlandish and ludicrous.

  • @snitchcore8635

    @snitchcore8635

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's why there is no credibility. Then again I do rate his performance alongside han solo.

  • @zatar123
    @zatar1233 жыл бұрын

    Domes on the surface is one option, But putting our habitats underground sounds like a better option to me. Plenty of good solid Mars rock between us and radiation, meteorites, ect.

  • @andrewclifton429
    @andrewclifton4293 жыл бұрын

    Matt: "We need 10,000 kg of material, per square meter, to duplicate atmospheric pressure. Seriously, thats how much atmosphere is above your head right now. No wonder its so hard getting out of bed in the morning!" I'll have to remember that explanation next time I'm late for work.

  • @Atlantis357
    @Atlantis3574 жыл бұрын

    PBS Spacetime: Can we terraform Mars? Isaac Arthur: Can we blow up Mercury and use its material to build a trillion space habitats?

  • @dystopiaahoy

    @dystopiaahoy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Would Earths path around the sun be changed if a planet was to disappear.?

  • @benmcelwain5301

    @benmcelwain5301

    4 жыл бұрын

    No. If you cut an apple in two the sum of the mass of the two halves remains the same as when it was whole.

  • @JB-1138

    @JB-1138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dystopiaahoy Literally nobody knows the answer to this. There will always be debates until such events occur.

  • @shipey188

    @shipey188

    4 жыл бұрын

    J B it shouldn’t be very hard to figure out, with all the software we have for calculating gravity in situations like that

  • @nmarbletoe8210

    @nmarbletoe8210

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@dystopiaahoy Yes it would surely change, at least a little bit. But if we could vaporize Mercury, we could surely push Earth, if necessary.

  • @ro4eva
    @ro4eva4 жыл бұрын

    I love this host. He brings forth a precious mix of discourse, comedic relief, body language, and a soothing voice.

  • @KipIngram

    @KipIngram

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, for sure. He's much better than the guy he replaced - the previous guy was one of those who seemed to think he had to be shouting at the camera all the time, with "barely restrained amazed excitement."

  • @joselynmikolajczak6972

    @joselynmikolajczak6972

    4 жыл бұрын

    This guy could read a math text book to me and I’d find it relaxing

  • @Lyle-xc9pg

    @Lyle-xc9pg

    4 жыл бұрын

    And the looks

  • @Maverick734

    @Maverick734

    3 жыл бұрын

    Really? I find all his expressions and hand gestures to be forced and rather inarticulate. No fluency at all.

  • @Neonator08

    @Neonator08

    3 жыл бұрын

    if you have a British accent you can sell anything as scientific and well informed :)

  • @philomathist6899
    @philomathist68993 жыл бұрын

    Before watching goals should be, 1. Throw really big rock to add mass and reignite core to create magnitoshphere, 2. once cooled down start with atmosphere.

  • @Nathan-vt1jz
    @Nathan-vt1jz9 ай бұрын

    Terraforming Mars might be possible, but it’d be incredibly difficult. We probably need another 500-1000 years of development to have a shot at such an ambitious plan.

  • @sacman3650
    @sacman36504 жыл бұрын

    Forget terraforming Mars, by 2553 we'll have the Covenant to worry about.

  • @joaovictor852

    @joaovictor852

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Chronic Rage it endeded in 2553

  • @stevelowe2647

    @stevelowe2647

    3 жыл бұрын

    My mind is being melted by computer nerds

  • @MayaPosch
    @MayaPosch4 жыл бұрын

    In before floating colonies on Venus :) Just think: same gravity as on Earth, same temperature and air pressure at 50 km altitude (just ignore the drops of sulphuric acid...), no radiation issues and plenty of resources. Can take your sweet time terraforming Venus at that point, ending up with what is essentially a carbon-copy of Earth. There's no real benefit from colonising Mars compared to colonising the Moon, or just having rotating habitats in space.

  • @DreamskyDance

    @DreamskyDance

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yup.. although teraforming Mars sounds cool and has that romantic and poetic achievement for humanity of transforming dead world into a live one... its actually quite wastefull process. Its like those rich people building artificial islands, i mean ok.. nice, but you have bunch of perfectly fine islands allready everywhere. I am not even sure would sulphuric acid rain on the altitudes i read/watched proposed floating stuff would be on Venus, as far as i know on top of the clouds. And that far in the future when humanity is building floating cities on Venus i thing it would not be far fetched that some robotic probes with giant tanks can just circle between Venus and Mars and carry greenhouse gases from one planet to the other, i mean for thousand of years or so but in the end you can end up with terraforming and colonizing two planets instead of one. XD I am also for more focus on the Venus, i hope that sometime soon someone will get enough money to at least test some proof of concept of floating probe on Venus ( for example how they tested solar sails and such ). Maybe even experiment of that kind would kindle more interest into Venus exploration and colonization even..

  • @mauror2023

    @mauror2023

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly

  • @springer-qb4dv

    @springer-qb4dv

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice, but how easy is it to create self-sustaining city in the sky on earth? Do that first on Earth and then we can talk about Venus cloud cities.

  • @leecowell8165

    @leecowell8165

    Жыл бұрын

    that actually makes more sense. the problem though is we'd still have way too many people dependent upon THIS planet even though a lot of them no longer actually lived on its surface. for one there's the problem of energy generation because solar panels do not last forever. and of course we'd need a zillion of them to support a rotational metropolis in space.

  • @pboytrif1
    @pboytrif12 жыл бұрын

    Earth: We always argue Mars: No we dont Earth: We dont want global warming Mars: We want global warming Earth: Get out.

  • @cityman2312
    @cityman23122 жыл бұрын

    The city sized bubbles sound like the 1990 dos game, Commander Keen, Marooned on Mars.

  • @fabianjanen7099
    @fabianjanen70994 жыл бұрын

    Well, right now we're marsiforming earth.

  • @moosemaimer

    @moosemaimer

    4 жыл бұрын

    we'll all be Venusians soon

  • @xehpuk

    @xehpuk

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or we are venusifying earth I think. (Ninjad)

  • @mblake0420

    @mblake0420

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's happening without us

  • @PainterVierax

    @PainterVierax

    4 жыл бұрын

    we're more turning it into another Venus.

  • @volkhen0

    @volkhen0

    4 жыл бұрын

    More like Venusaforming due to green house effect. If it will become an runaway type there will be two Venus in Solar System.

  • @temporaryscars
    @temporaryscars4 жыл бұрын

    “The journey to Mars is right around the corner!” I remember when they said that in the late 80s.

  • @lastyou

    @lastyou

    4 жыл бұрын

    In terms of human time scales, a couple of centuries is "right around the corner"

  • @temporaryscars

    @temporaryscars

    4 жыл бұрын

    lastyou yeah, if we were going now. I’d wager we’re still 50 years off, minimum.

  • @taron1868

    @taron1868

    4 жыл бұрын

    temporaryscars we are going to mars in 2024

  • @___Karma__

    @___Karma__

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@taron1868 You are talking about Artemis? That mission is targeting the moon

  • @taron1868

    @taron1868

    4 жыл бұрын

    Karma Fields no . Elon musk said people going to mars 2024

  • @gregorylumpkin2128
    @gregorylumpkin2128 Жыл бұрын

    The way things are going here on earth, we might have to terraform whatever rock with a breathable atmosphere that we can find.

  • @TheJMBon
    @TheJMBon2 жыл бұрын

    If we have the tech to build a martian atmosphere, we'd have the tech to move atmosphere from one planet to another and both Jupiter and Venus have many times more than we'd need.

  • @durshurrikun150

    @durshurrikun150

    2 жыл бұрын

    Jupiter is mostly made of helium and hydrogen. Venus lacks hydrogen. Good luck doing that.

  • @andoletube
    @andoletube3 жыл бұрын

    Terraforming Mars Rundown sheet: The theory: Interesting thought exercise. The practice: This is patently absurd.

  • @rhensontollhouse

    @rhensontollhouse

    3 жыл бұрын

    andoletube Exactly

  • @theodoresweger4948

    @theodoresweger4948

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree with the absurd, no protection from radiation, let along with a dozen or more problems that nobody talks about.

  • @sstrick500

    @sstrick500

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. We're only here because of a multi-billion-year dance of precision.

  • @theviniso

    @theviniso

    3 жыл бұрын

    Let's add mass to Mars until its gravity matches that of Earth and melt its core so we get a magnetic field, then I think it should be ready for some proper terraforming

  • @theodoresweger4948

    @theodoresweger4948

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a plan, I'll take some tron and a blow torch and we are in business. I would like some company can I take the woman of my choice with me, I have one in mind.

  • @AnimalFacts
    @AnimalFacts4 жыл бұрын

    Hopefully, we'll find oil on Mars. We're pretty good at changing atmospheres with that.

  • @willempaternotte4071

    @willempaternotte4071

    4 жыл бұрын

    I hope this is sarcastic

  • @darrenkastl8160

    @darrenkastl8160

    4 жыл бұрын

    You use the word (were) ? Would you be implying China and or India?

  • @willempaternotte4071

    @willempaternotte4071

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@darrenkastl8160 it think animal facts means everyone on earth. It's not like only china and india have been emitting CO2

  • @playahship5786

    @playahship5786

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol ur not lying about that. We seem to think smarter when it comes to gaining something to benefit wealth

  • @vegabaja8898

    @vegabaja8898

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao so true yet our govt. refuses to believe it’s the cause😂

  • @Cerriscapades
    @Cerriscapades2 жыл бұрын

    11:25 Looks like Marco Inaros was on to something sending rocks to the inners

  • @GigaNga_077
    @GigaNga_0773 жыл бұрын

    Just the idea of living in Mars it’s amazing

  • @MSpacer
    @MSpacer4 жыл бұрын

    7:28 "Kilometers per meter cubed". That had me confused for a moment for sure.

  • @JenJHayden
    @JenJHayden4 жыл бұрын

    Let's terraform Earth to be more Earth-like.

  • @jessetorres8738

    @jessetorres8738

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dang, you beat me to writing this.

  • @sandrosixarulidze398

    @sandrosixarulidze398

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@blackieblack Already, google Great Green Wall. It's done to stop Sahara desert from spreading, maybe even reverse it.

  • @mwm48

    @mwm48

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good luck.

  • @seandonaldson5084

    @seandonaldson5084

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jessetorres8738 My exact thoughts as well LOL

  • @Kolokommouna

    @Kolokommouna

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@blackieblack start with overthrowing the capitalist system. >70% of the human made CO2 is made by corporations after all

  • @lethalantidote
    @lethalantidote2 жыл бұрын

    what would the increased mass from the keiper object bombardment do to Mar's orbit? and would that have any significant effect on the rest of the solar system?

  • @Dark78Sabre
    @Dark78Sabre2 жыл бұрын

    I'd think considering all that involves "The Easy Part" ... it'd be far easier to just figure out a way to "borrow" some atmospheric gases from Jupiter. We could filter out exactly what gases we needed and in what quantities. Combined with smashing some comets into Mars ... might be a tad faster. Now we just need to double the density of the core's surface and maybe heat up and restart Mar's magnetic field. Maybe since the core is solidified ... we could just drill down deep enough in the right areas and deposit all of our nuclear waste ... the radiation decay might generate enough heat to do the trick.

  • @Dark78Sabre

    @Dark78Sabre

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@djdoc06 Why would we take atmospheric gasses ... the ones we breathe ... in such large quantities that it might pose a dnager to us on our only habitable planet? If we are already talking about smashing comets and asteroids into Mars ... it would seem that robotics could easily harvest the gasses from something as massive as a planet full of them?

  • @TheGargalon
    @TheGargalon4 жыл бұрын

    Isn't it much easier to build habitats in space? O'neill cylinders orbiting the sun, becoming the first building blocks of a dyson sphere/swarm?

  • @MrMighty147

    @MrMighty147

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dyson spheres aren't possible unfortunately though.

  • @MBKill3rCat

    @MBKill3rCat

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrMighty147 But Dyson Swarms are; instead of a rigid shell, you have many independent habitats in orbit around the sun.

  • @kakerake6018

    @kakerake6018

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MBKill3rCat a habitat in space would be easier to build and maintain than terraforming mars. we should call mars what it really is... a resource tile

  • @rexes92

    @rexes92

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MrMighty147 Dyson Spheres are possible

  • @tru7hhimself
    @tru7hhimself4 жыл бұрын

    there is an unwritten rule for titles of scientific papers: "if the title asks a yes or no question, the answer is usually no". apprently this also applies for space time.

  • @osmosisjones4912

    @osmosisjones4912

    4 жыл бұрын

    Beam down Raw matterials asteriods. Unlike people living things in general . Or even physical objects. Rew matterials can be Lazar guided .

  • @polygondwanaland8390

    @polygondwanaland8390

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think the definition of terraforming is the problem. Mars will probably never have rolling green fields. But if you get the atmosphere to about 5-10% of Earth's, regardless of composition, you allow people to walk with only warm clothing and an oxygen mask. That's a huge improvement.

  • @MagicCuboid

    @MagicCuboid

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@polygondwanaland8390 They'd also need serious protection from all the UV radiation without a magnetic field, wouldn't they?

  • @ananyaaloke2433

    @ananyaaloke2433

    4 жыл бұрын

    I had noticed

  • @osmosisjones4912

    @osmosisjones4912

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@polygondwanaland8390 Mars might have been bigger. When Nitrogen oxygen hydrogen break they blow away with rest of atomphire . If other matterials like sulfur . Or carbon when they vaporize

  • @leolafortune1255
    @leolafortune12553 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of worldhouse, if it had a flexible or liquid roof it could gobble micrometeors like a jelly, slow them down and maybe even get energy in the process.

  • @RentAsunder0
    @RentAsunder02 жыл бұрын

    Cody from Cody's lab did a video about crashing astroids and making a 25k deep hole so there was atmospheric pressure it was good

  • @carrekl
    @carrekl4 жыл бұрын

    No need to nuke anything when you can bring Deimos down for only 31 megacredits

  • @MarioRugeles

    @MarioRugeles

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣

  • @daverapp

    @daverapp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or like eleven pieces of titanium

  • @oriangalore

    @oriangalore

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @aidarosullivan5269

    @aidarosullivan5269

    4 жыл бұрын

    What is a megacredit?

  • @Gooberpatrol66

    @Gooberpatrol66

    4 жыл бұрын

    But Deimos was converted into Marathon.

  • @jeremielebrun3637
    @jeremielebrun36374 жыл бұрын

    maybe... the real question is "could we stop Marsform Earth?"

  • @singletona082

    @singletona082

    4 жыл бұрын

    More along the lines of venusforming in my opinion.

  • @jeremielebrun3637

    @jeremielebrun3637

    4 жыл бұрын

    not false... Hey! maybe for each century there is a "not planetformearth" challenge! the next one would be not transform it into a vaporise earth with a big orbiting shit ring...

  • @Congruesome

    @Congruesome

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think we re well on the way!

  • @bkrharold

    @bkrharold

    4 жыл бұрын

    snap you beat me to it, but yes you are right , what we are doing to this our home planet is absolute madness.

  • @jeremielebrun3637

    @jeremielebrun3637

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bkrharold Neil deGrass Tyson once said that "the day we're abble to terraform Mars, we'll be abble to solve every problem on Earth" or something alike , with better english

  • @shawnirwin6633
    @shawnirwin66332 жыл бұрын

    De-orbit moons from other planets that contain the right substances, crash them into Mars. Thus you increase the mass of Mars, and could potentially even add a magnetic field, along with an atmosphere.

  • @justmoritz

    @justmoritz

    2 жыл бұрын

    I like this! Problem is that it would be a millions of years process :P

  • @Kentavritsa
    @Kentavritsa Жыл бұрын

    what if we were to pick the celestrial bodies in order, based on the elements required at the stage? possibly building up the mass with regular rock first? then adding the atmosphere with the Oxygen and Nitrogen only when you have a sufficent pressure to start it all up? How workable would it be to start up the core with nuclear power? which is the best way to go about this, if one could set it up and have enough fule for this in the first place? how much gravity and atmospheric pressure would you need for Mars to be Habitable? How much Oxugen is in the red rust on the surface of Mars?

  • @srinivaspavan162
    @srinivaspavan1624 жыл бұрын

    "Humanity's future is glorious" That sentence gave me a chuckle.

  • @dr.andreaslaurencius-unive9837

    @dr.andreaslaurencius-unive9837

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well-put!

  • @tamarinds

    @tamarinds

    4 жыл бұрын

    its true though

  • @manomenon1

    @manomenon1

    4 жыл бұрын

    aliens or jinns or goblins have bases on mars and nasa and american government and some other governments know this and keep it secret

  • @Ahmed77330

    @Ahmed77330

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@manomenon1 The fuck is wrong with you?

  • @spartansEXTEEL

    @spartansEXTEEL

    4 жыл бұрын

    By the time we're able to do these things it won't even be called Humanity anymore. If we make it that far it will be our creations that mimic intelligent life.

  • @Littleking1985
    @Littleking19854 жыл бұрын

    Turn the Sahara into a rain forest first then we'll talk

  • @bindukopparapu2795

    @bindukopparapu2795

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would destroy the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon gets much of its nutrients blow by winds from the Sahara

  • @RxPow

    @RxPow

    4 жыл бұрын

    they are doing that to the gobi desert

  • @bindukopparapu2795

    @bindukopparapu2795

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RxPow The Gobi desert does not feed rainforests

  • @RxPow

    @RxPow

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bindukopparapu2795 i'm replying to the first comment ya dimwit

  • @bindukopparapu2795

    @bindukopparapu2795

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@RxPow oh, sorry

  • @tyrport
    @tyrport Жыл бұрын

    Can we even survive in one third gravity? Could we bombard the surface with ice from Kuiper belt. Opp’s you got to it.

  • @seanhubbard6033
    @seanhubbard60332 жыл бұрын

    I was just thinking about the idea of smashing comets into Mars before it came up hehe

  • @OneofInfinity.
    @OneofInfinity.4 жыл бұрын

    Imagining the irony if we discover during colonization that we came from Mars.

  • @Proto1215

    @Proto1215

    3 жыл бұрын

    You just blew my mind.

  • @howardcihak9369

    @howardcihak9369

    3 жыл бұрын

    We may not know the answer to that well before humans try to colonize Mars. Sooner or later one of those rovers will find primordial life forms. Then it's just a matter of sequencing its DNA to see how closely it matches ours.

  • @howardcihak9369

    @howardcihak9369

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Fernando Cunha Not Australopithecus specifically, but microscopic organisms that could withstand the exposure of being in an asteroid for millions of years before it crashed to Earth.

  • @kirakiller44

    @kirakiller44

    3 жыл бұрын

    theres a cool video of this theory

  • @Rampagedd

    @Rampagedd

    3 жыл бұрын

    Evolved from single cells that came from mars perhaps 😁

  • @yourfavouritenarcissist
    @yourfavouritenarcissist4 жыл бұрын

    very realistic greenscreen PBS, I actually thought you were really in space!

  • @MrRanderas

    @MrRanderas

    4 жыл бұрын

    the green screening is actually pretty good. its just that the white balance on him is slightly off

  • @perkele1989

    @perkele1989

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrRanderas Also the lighting is so off.. It doesnt even need to be realistic, Id just give him a strong backlight and a diffuse spread from the front.

  • @electricflow8827

    @electricflow8827

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrRanderas definitely wouldn't make a difference, lighting doesn't reduce image quality

  • @mikepeterson443
    @mikepeterson4433 жыл бұрын

    That's how UWI (Universal War I) started. The Martians formed an alliance with the Dark Federation to fight back against Earth's effort to bombard it with huge rocks.

  • @DavidTJames-yq9dr
    @DavidTJames-yq9dr2 жыл бұрын

    i am oddly sad now. but the lego makes me happy again

  • @givemeprimelaughter
    @givemeprimelaughter4 жыл бұрын

    Humans -Finds planet semi-inhabitable- Humans "Let's NUKE IT!"

  • @sumralltt

    @sumralltt

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can't understand why Aliens don't want to talk to us - Maybe it's because we nuke everything!

  • @1amadeo

    @1amadeo

    3 жыл бұрын

    MURICA!!

  • @250txc

    @250txc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nukes solve everything! Not sure why though...

  • @kharlanhero4428

    @kharlanhero4428

    3 жыл бұрын

    Change Humans for Americans

  • @njmwape1

    @njmwape1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nuke = Warm it up

  • @japr1223
    @japr12234 жыл бұрын

    "don't look at the sky, it's a long way down". 😄😂😄😂

  • @planetdisco4821
    @planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын

    I’m kind of coming around to the idea of just covering valles Marineris with a canopy of aerogel and terraforming that instead…

  • @dangoerke51

    @dangoerke51

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not a bad idea. This is the first time I have heard of the idea that the CO2 available using "current" tech is infeasible for building an atmosphere. While intriguing, the usual "necessity is the mother of invention" verity suggests to me that a first-draft analysis will end neither the debate nor the effort toward a real Martian atmosphere. In the end, I still suspect that a way will be found.

  • @psoelling
    @psoelling3 жыл бұрын

    Question two: Could we actually melt the core of Mars? And would that actually spark the Marsian magnetic field again? How would we go about that?

  • @donkeytwoddle

    @donkeytwoddle

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've heard theories that the kinetic energy from a large enough impact could do it. Maybe redirecting the nearby dwarf planet Ceres?

  • @justmoritz

    @justmoritz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@donkeytwoddle yes that makes sense. Maybe we can also capture a larger moon? Sort of get something to continue tugging on it

  • @donkeytwoddle

    @donkeytwoddle

    2 жыл бұрын

    ​@@justmoritz There are certainly some interesting ways suggested to move large objects that orbit that I have read about. I feel most do not emphasis enough: machines that can make machines from in-situ resources would be needed for most of the methods. The scale of action, in moving a moon, would require a large scale of local infrastructure - manufacturing elsewhere would be unviable. So really whether the method is -painting one side of a whole planet dark & one light with an army of devices, -manufacturing an obscene quantity of explosives -or doing the same of either on a smaller space object to make it orbit this moon & sling the moon off its trajectory with some calculated insane math Automated space industry is the first factor to viability; a monumental amount of stuff is needed a monumental distance away so it must be produced there to get scale.

  • @whitehorse1959
    @whitehorse19594 жыл бұрын

    07:19 LMFAO - I'll pay that. Clever joke. "No wonder it's so hard getting out of bed in the morning"

  • @superpantman
    @superpantman3 жыл бұрын

    I really like the focus on planetary missions, it feels like something that unites everyone towards a common goal.

  • @thunderlifestudios

    @thunderlifestudios

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's the thing I love about science. It often can bring people together.

  • @carlosmanuelgonzalez310

    @carlosmanuelgonzalez310

    2 жыл бұрын

    yeah... how about earth as a common goal then...

  • @benyosep5640

    @benyosep5640

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thunderlifestudios Yet black men are killed by police. Stop with the nonsense. You ain't never going to mars.

  • @tommurphy2332
    @tommurphy23323 жыл бұрын

    Newton's law of universal gravitation: F = G(m1 x m2)/(r x r) In this equation F is the force of Gravity, G is a known constant, r is a dimension, but the critical factors are m1 and m2 - the mass of the planet (m1) and the mass of us humans or the mass of the atmosphere (m2). So without planet mass there is not enough gravitational pull to hold the atmosphere and it just drifts away into space.

  • @PraveenSriram

    @PraveenSriram

    2 жыл бұрын

    I learned this equation in my high school physics class I

  • @billkennedy8869
    @billkennedy88692 жыл бұрын

    Mars has no electro magnetic shield To stop the Solar Wind From blowing away the atmosphere we could make !

  • @davidsoom1551

    @davidsoom1551

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right on Bill! What's up with all this fantasy space travel crap? There was such fantasy during the 60s we all thought we'd be vacationing on the moon and flying our jetpacks while our parents were flying their cars around. Jetsons. But that was crap too. Now it's an industry with followers so naive they don't know the harshness of reality.

  • @MyStarPeopleExperiences

    @MyStarPeopleExperiences

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure why most overlook this fact.

  • @connoraugusto4615

    @connoraugusto4615

    2 жыл бұрын

    We will give it one !

  • @cosmingrigore1032

    @cosmingrigore1032

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yhea maybe listen to the video

  • @davidsoom1551

    @davidsoom1551

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cosmingrigore1032 The video is full of fantasy and CGI.

  • @torchiest
    @torchiest4 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Now please do one about terraforming Venus. Is it potentially easier?

  • @joshuafogg6600

    @joshuafogg6600

    4 жыл бұрын

    That would be literally insane.

  • @justincobb5853

    @justincobb5853

    4 жыл бұрын

    Joshua Fogg no more insane than Mars. Very similar problems - no magnetic field, hostile atmosphere, problematic rotation/eccentricity, and completely missing chemistry.

  • @zumszum

    @zumszum

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe it's easier to solidify Venus' atmosphere rather than bring Marsian from space.

  • @justincobb5853

    @justincobb5853

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bodhi Gerlach um, yes it is. It's better positioned than Mars, although to Venus's detriment and Mars's "benefit", over the next billion years that will shift.

  • @DANGJOS

    @DANGJOS

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@justincobb5853 At least you just have to add an atmosphere to Mars. You have to find away to remove Venus' atmosphere.

  • @stevetippet7950
    @stevetippet79504 жыл бұрын

    What if we already fkd up Mars and came to Earth as a second home.

  • @comradeakaov408

    @comradeakaov408

    4 жыл бұрын

    Third, I still remember our days on Venus

  • @MrSpecialKTJ

    @MrSpecialKTJ

    4 жыл бұрын

    "This has all happened before... and it will happen again."

  • @giannimura8870

    @giannimura8870

    4 жыл бұрын

    Been thinking about that for a long time, what if humanity just pressed the reset button before coming to Earth

  • @jevantewallace1113

    @jevantewallace1113

    3 жыл бұрын

    @fjf sjdnx ..... that's really bold, sharing dooms day secrets openly

  • @jevantewallace1113

    @jevantewallace1113

    3 жыл бұрын

    @fjf sjdnx Your post to Mura just explained very simply to me, that you can prove & / or disprove any of religions with a fish tank.......

  • @savage5757
    @savage575723 күн бұрын

    13:50 in the series of fantasy stories «Ancient» such «roofs» were called «dome»

  • @artestichniifilin2701
    @artestichniifilin27012 жыл бұрын

    step 1: make a partial dyson swarm step 2: redirect the light towards mars instead of some form of solar panels step 3: wait for it to heat up

  • @MrMighty147
    @MrMighty1474 жыл бұрын

    Yeah we just gotta research the terraform tech and invest 20.000 minerals.

  • @Xeridanus

    @Xeridanus

    4 жыл бұрын

    We require more vespene gas.

  • @zissler1

    @zissler1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Probably have to guard the terraformer mechanism from on coming hordes of aliens attacking it for about 20 minutes. We’ll also. need to invest in bunkers, tanks, and missile turrets.

  • @PersimmonHurmo

    @PersimmonHurmo

    4 жыл бұрын

    It would also be nice if we could get a source of terraforming gases! Otherwise we'll have to buy it from the merchants for 150 energy per month...

  • @mateuszfraniczek1725

    @mateuszfraniczek1725

    4 жыл бұрын

    DONT FORGET THE UPGRADES DUDE

  • @Draecko
    @Draecko4 жыл бұрын

    Finally a video that starts with Mars' magnetic field instead of all that hypothetical BS. Thank you.

  • @rasmusg.o629

    @rasmusg.o629

    4 жыл бұрын

    still tho, why live on the outside of mars? all things considered, why don't we live on the inside. Mars will never be earth like, unless we make our own magnetic field generator inside. Imagen hollowing out mars inside and building a freaking gigantic spinning metal structure XD things we called imposible 10 years ago are possible today, and same it will most surely be 10 years from now. when people call it insane they seem to forget that insanity is our human speciality. Seriously just look at the net and see the creations people make, Minecraft is a good example here, when it first came out it did not take long before somone had build a 1:1 scale of the mountain city form from LOTR. that was by 10 people before any helping programs. These projects only sound slightly inconvenient to me, far from insane, well we not there yet, but if we dont die by AI we will be there soon enough, and even much farter. Im looking forward to the solutions the future will invent.

  • @TheWoodenshark

    @TheWoodenshark

    4 жыл бұрын

    If you fancy a caveman lifestyle might as well do it on Earth. Make an underground base under some crappy desert and voila, you have your colony. Idk what this is supposed to accomplish but hey. Anything you want to do on Mars you can do on Earth many orders of magnitude cheaper, easier, faster and safer. But in practical sense....it doesn't make sense.

  • @kamilianos
    @kamilianos3 жыл бұрын

    we have a good training ground on Earth for testing the methods. Revive all the deserts first ...

  • @horusmegee6969
    @horusmegee69692 жыл бұрын

    Could be a good natural way to create an atmosphere on Mars. Probably has a lot of laten carbon in its core and also oxygen bonds in the iron surface wide.

  • @horusmegee6969

    @horusmegee6969

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Corrigan WrongWay Well it might be possible if the core got heated up and then maybe a strong magnetic field would be created.

  • @horusmegee6969

    @horusmegee6969

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Corrigan WrongWay Also check out my KZread channel. It has some interesting new ways to observe our solar system.

  • @ps6069
    @ps60694 жыл бұрын

    love this channel even more cause of the LEGO way to go !!

  • @jaxlone997
    @jaxlone9973 жыл бұрын

    « No wonder it’s so hard getting out of bed in the morning! » while Im watching this having just woken up and now I have an excuse not to get up😂

  • @robinj.9329
    @robinj.93292 жыл бұрын

    We can't even "Terra-form" our own Earth! Best of Luck with Mars. That's a MILLION YEAR PROJECT ! Pretty ambitious for a species that has only been able to use electricity for 180 years!!!

  • @James-gk3ig
    @James-gk3ig2 жыл бұрын

    What if we kept bombarding mars with comets.. as in all of them one by one, it would change the mass of the planet? Sort of like recreating planetary formation, heating the core again eventually, just keep hitting it and dont stop...

  • @WilliamPauley
    @WilliamPauley4 жыл бұрын

    7:24 "High density limestone is 2,500 KiloMETERS per meter cubed." Great video though!

  • @alfonsogaona6028

    @alfonsogaona6028

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello there, humans don't terraform, humans destroy everything they come across or get their hands on .this is sad.

  • @WilliamPauley

    @WilliamPauley

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like someone needs a drink from a rough day..

  • @alfonsogaona6028

    @alfonsogaona6028

    4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe we can start by terraforming the amazon forest. That would be good practice.

  • @sixft7in

    @sixft7in

    4 жыл бұрын

    William Pauley was mentioning an error in the video. Matt O'Dowd accidentally said 2500 Kilometers per meter cubed instead of 2500 Kilograms per meters cubed.

  • @seanb3516

    @seanb3516

    4 жыл бұрын

    Meters....Grams. Potato...Podildo. What's the difference?

  • @acool6401
    @acool64014 жыл бұрын

    If we had the technology to terraform Mars then by default we'd also have the technology to revitalize mother Earth to a more healthy state.

  • @jeremysharp4218

    @jeremysharp4218

    4 жыл бұрын

    Earth will be the planet where we learn how to do terraforming first.

  • @MrMsSihrus

    @MrMsSihrus

    4 жыл бұрын

    This guy gets it

  • @stevesalvant80

    @stevesalvant80

    4 жыл бұрын

    Too many lunatics nobody wants to help until it’s too late

  • @fatted3004

    @fatted3004

    4 жыл бұрын

    The luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, resulting in a rise in the solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will result in a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals, which will cause a decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In about 600 million years from now, the level of carbon dioxide will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. So basically run from the sun. Being able to live on mars buys us time.

  • @arthas640

    @arthas640

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah, lets just trash this planet and then get a new one. By the time we ruin Mars, Earth will have either fixed itself or we'll have the technology to move to Alpha Centauri. We'll be like an interstellar race of tourists: traveling to a new planet, living the high life, trashing the place, and then moving on to the next hotspot while the animals, plants, and such clean the place up after we're gone. We'll seed a million worlds with our hedonism and 100 million years from now new races will emerge from our trash heaps and worship us as their creators while their scientists research our garbage to discover our technological secrets but by then we'll moved on to another galaxy to trash it too.

  • @sock2828
    @sock28283 жыл бұрын

    I bet we're just gonna start making big rotating space stations instead of terraforming planets. It just seems a lot faster and easier.

  • @sharonbraselton4302

    @sharonbraselton4302

    7 ай бұрын

    yes it iß

  • @nfarnell1
    @nfarnell13 жыл бұрын

    So first step is to crack the controllable fusion power puzzle. With that done it is a matter of estimating the gasous material missing from the planet. Next we find and assemble the necessary gases in the form of ices around mars ( Asteroids ). We have been building Magnetic field generators which we will populate the surface of Mars with. The next steps will be crashing various Asteroids into Mars from our assembled swarm in the right order to get the atmosphere gases right. The landing and turning on the Magnetic fields will have to be folded into the schedule, and if we getting sequence right BINGO livable planet.

  • @rmtfm
    @rmtfm4 жыл бұрын

    3:36 You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about

  • @EmpireRamzes
    @EmpireRamzes4 жыл бұрын

    I gave up on the idea of terraforming Mars, when I realized we can't even terra form a desert on earth

  • @Zaluskowsky

    @Zaluskowsky

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exact

  • @uhohhotdog

    @uhohhotdog

    4 жыл бұрын

    We could if we wanted 🤷‍♂️

  • @dcanaday

    @dcanaday

    4 жыл бұрын

    When winds from the West hit the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, the air rises, which causes it to lose it's moisture. When it finally rolls over to the other side, it is very dry. It is this air that blows across the Sahara Desert. It is why the Sahara Desert exists. Were we to somehow flatten these mountains, the Sahara would receive a lot more rain and could eventually become lush with plant life. Not an easy task, of course, but has to be easier than moving 10,000 comets from the Kuiper Belt onto Mars. So how about a PBS documentary on how to flatten the Atlas Mountains?

  • @bandaid007jl

    @bandaid007jl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@uhohhotdog it would be a good place to start

  • @udishomer5852

    @udishomer5852

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dcanaday you don't need to flatten the mountains. You can build pipelines for transporting desalinized water. Solar energy can be used for desalination. Still, the soil there seems very poor, lacks minerals.

  • @nathanbrawley7256
    @nathanbrawley72563 жыл бұрын

    I can just imagine 8 million years in the future where you’re trying to decide whether you want to visit earth for the day or watch a movie on Mars instead

  • @hermanlauvehansen7825

    @hermanlauvehansen7825

    Жыл бұрын

    In 8 million years we would try to leave the the milky way to find a better galaxy

  • @markbond7314
    @markbond73143 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Firefly/Serenity shirt 😎