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Project Horizon: America's Military Outpost on the Moon

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  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects96493 жыл бұрын

    Check out Brilliant: brilliant.org/MEGA

  • @pyeitme508

    @pyeitme508

    3 жыл бұрын

    Meh

  • @deltacx1059

    @deltacx1059

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is it brilliant though? They are like the new audible, handing out free trials to anything that movea.

  • @ChrisTian-ed8ol

    @ChrisTian-ed8ol

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not to sound like a crazy Democrat in th is day and age, but Russia did come the closest to possibly destroying the world with their test of the 100 Megaton (downgraded to 50) nuke. The only reason they didn't was because the head of the project replaced the depleted uranium shielding with common lead shielding, thus decreasing the power by 50%. Thank you Simon for that awesome and scary Megaprojects video. You are a legend.....allegedly.

  • @kommandantgalileo

    @kommandantgalileo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do the Panzers of WW2 Germany

  • @greywolf845

    @greywolf845

    3 жыл бұрын

    Here's an idea for a future video on this channel...Armored Trains. Particularly the ones uses by the polish and russians in WW2, and Trotsky's Armored Train in the Russian Revolution

  • @garethbattersby
    @garethbattersby3 жыл бұрын

    When you asked "Why don't we have a base on the moon? What went wrong" The ad break went to a Tik Tok advertisement, and I genuinely thought "Well that kind of answers that question"

  • @anthonygustafson4713

    @anthonygustafson4713

    2 жыл бұрын

    😆 You're so spot on, a sad reality for sure.

  • @edanderson8382

    @edanderson8382

    2 жыл бұрын

    NASA can't get human tissue through the van allen radiation belts without frying it. (Look it up!) Makes me wonder how they did it in '69.

  • @alexanderkubiak537

    @alexanderkubiak537

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@edanderson8382 they went around the inner belt and skimmed the weaker part of the outer belt.

  • @bugstomper4670

    @bugstomper4670

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well Tik Tok is based in China, and the CCP wants to be 'the top dog' now, after stealing allot of America's technology. So even slight hints are going to suttle brainwash everyone to think of China.

  • @wkgmathguy218

    @wkgmathguy218

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alexanderkubiak537 That's right. Also they were traveling rather quickly and didn't spend much time in the worst of it.

  • @mk1st
    @mk1st3 жыл бұрын

    When I first saw it, I really thought that 2001 A Space Odyssey was (partly) a future documentary. It was a given that by 2001 and beyond, we'd have moon bases, orbiting hotels and humans traveling to Jupiter. Now the best we can do is celebrate when two astronauts launch from US soil after 15 years of having to use Russian rockets.

  • @bobbythomas6520

    @bobbythomas6520

    Жыл бұрын

    This comments funny showing you know very little about rocket/ shuttle engineering

  • @mk1st

    @mk1st

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@bobbythomas6520 Wha? You think that these types of things (or similar) wouldn't have been realized had we kept going to the moon for 50 years?

  • @tomsmith889
    @tomsmith8893 жыл бұрын

    New channel idea “The Cold War Channel” that must be a gold mine of subject material for the ever going empire of SimonTube!

  • @IggyStardust1967

    @IggyStardust1967

    3 жыл бұрын

    As someone who lived through that, I not only endorse this idea, I demand it! As an American, I demand our British ally, Simon, take up this mantle, and perform as he does on other lovely subjects. Right. Simon, get on with it!

  • @t395delta

    @t395delta

    3 жыл бұрын

    it is a good channel

  • @boglenight1551

    @boglenight1551

    3 жыл бұрын

    John Linde Another American with an ego, so original

  • @IggyStardust1967

    @IggyStardust1967

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@boglenight1551 It's a joke, not a dick. Don't take it so hard. On a serious note, I'd love to see such a channel, and would subscribe to it immediately upon knowing it exists. I truly enjoy Simon's delivery, and I love the British accent.

  • @boglenight1551

    @boglenight1551

    3 жыл бұрын

    John Linde Here we have another old homophobic egotistical American who thinks that they can demand things just because they think they’re above everyone else.

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz15643 жыл бұрын

    Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular Speaking of deep holes, how about the Kidd Mine as well?

  • @rman6572
    @rman65723 жыл бұрын

    Having read The Martian by Andy Weir, this is literally 80% of everything he described in the book....damn...

  • @EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

    @EthelredHardrede-nz8yv

    3 жыл бұрын

    His second book is on the Moon.

  • @spaceman081447

    @spaceman081447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv RE: "His second book is on the Moon." The book is entitled Artemis.

  • @jaymzx0

    @jaymzx0

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv That's a long trip to read a book. Is there an e-book version, possibly?

  • @rman6572

    @rman6572

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jaymzx0 yeah I think you can find a kindle and pdf version of it

  • @rman6572

    @rman6572

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv yeah it's called Artemis. Not as good as The Martian but definitely worth a read

  • @brianstipsfordads9305
    @brianstipsfordads93053 жыл бұрын

    You should do a mega projects on how you manage all of your channels!

  • @ForeverTCB

    @ForeverTCB

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes!!!

  • @TheHaughtyOsprey

    @TheHaughtyOsprey

    Жыл бұрын

    He's a hired actor.

  • @rebasack21
    @rebasack213 жыл бұрын

    Topic idea: The worlds longest/largest bridges. Not just how they were built but how the things to build them were built. How do people decide what types of bridges are best? How do they clean up the mess after a bridge fails like how galloping gurdy did?

  • @spaceman081447

    @spaceman081447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Rebecca Washburn RE: ". . . like how galloping gurdy did?" It's Galloping Gertie. NOTE: Gertrude (Gertie) was a common female name at that time.

  • @rebasack21

    @rebasack21

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spaceman081447 Oh ok thanks, I have only ever heard the name and had no context for trying to spell it.

  • @spaceman081447

    @spaceman081447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rebasack21 RE: "Oh ok thanks, I have only ever heard the name and had no context for trying to spell it." You're welcome.

  • @anydaynow01
    @anydaynow013 жыл бұрын

    Actually you would want the reactors in the same structure as the crew quarters so it can be more easily accessed. As far as radiation a submariner on a US submarine (they are all nuclear these days) receives less radiation on patrol (the nuclear techs included) than they would if they were top side. In fact the folks on the moon base would receive much more of a dose from cosmic radiation than they ever would from having a small well shielded trash can reactor accessible from their quarters.

  • @gapratt4955

    @gapratt4955

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know a fellow who was a Navy nuke and if you want to watch him lose his mind just call where he worked as; "Glow in the dark land." He will launch into a diatribe about how just going out in the sun exposes you to more radiation than working engineering on a US Navy nuke sub.

  • @TheRomanWolf

    @TheRomanWolf

    2 жыл бұрын

    isnt the actual problem the weight of the shielding?

  • @gapratt4955

    @gapratt4955

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TheRomanWolf Short answer, yes. Long answer, one of the best radiation shields is a necessary commodity, water. So the weight penalty can be off set by that. Subs separate the reactor compartment from the forward of the boat with the NFO tank, so we know it works.

  • @Waldemarvonanhalt
    @Waldemarvonanhalt3 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of nuclear reactors on the Moon, NASA is looking into that again. On a side note: Conceptual space illustrations are one of my favourite art genres.

  • @addikay7097
    @addikay70973 жыл бұрын

    Megaprojects might be my favorite channel in the Whistler KZread Empire for the sole fact that we get to see Simon geek out and it’s fun

  • @prudencepineapple9448
    @prudencepineapple94483 жыл бұрын

    reminds me of my favourite Sci-Fi TV series growing up called 'Space 1999'. Moon-base Alpha.

  • @aaronranegeraldo2158
    @aaronranegeraldo21583 жыл бұрын

    The imagination of the people who thought of stuff like this is kinda awe inspiring

  • @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    3 жыл бұрын

    If the N1 had worked and the Soviets had landed on the moon first I bet this project would have been fully funded.

  • @barath4545
    @barath45453 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if we just need another Cold War to kick off innovation like this and the Apollo programme. Like competition on a nation-v-nation wide scale would fuel it. Just without the whole nuclear button shit as well.

  • @obelic71
    @obelic713 жыл бұрын

    after 2020 a mental hospital on the moon wouldn't be a bad idea. The only question is is the moon big enough ?

  • @brianhiles8164

    @brianhiles8164

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just as well. It would be a _Luna-tic king bomb._

  • @mariusvanc

    @mariusvanc

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just don't send people prone to suffering from TDS to the moon?

  • @antoniomaglione4101
    @antoniomaglione41013 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video Mr. Whistler! To be honest, I was expecting some more indeep analysis of the technicalities of a Moonbase, maybe a rendering of the facilities, some hypoteses on the scopes and objectives of the installation, a list of the necessary technological breakthroughs, how it could be powered, the description of the Earth - Moon communication links, how and how much Nations other than U.S. may be willing to partecipate, and any possible competition. The proposals from 70 years ago for a Moon Base are no longer relevant. Please this is not a criticism from my side, I do highly appreciate your video as it is, it is just a list of my expectations when I clicked on it. Again, thank you for your hard work. Regards,

  • @J.Severin

    @J.Severin

    Жыл бұрын

    yeah, i agree. next Video an hour long please.

  • @MonkeyspankO
    @MonkeyspankO3 жыл бұрын

    In the 50s people decided to accomplish a task and then solve problems on the way to getting there. Today we think of all the problems, try to solved them and never even get off the ground in the first place (literally in this case). Don't be afraid to fail!

  • @steveskouson9620
    @steveskouson96203 жыл бұрын

    "...nuclear reactors. Two of them housed in the same buildings as the soldiers." Simon, kindly refer your sights to the Los Angeles class submarines. (Or, any other class of nuclear sub.) steve

  • @herbertkeithmiller
    @herbertkeithmiller3 жыл бұрын

    8:33 regarding living in the same enclosure as a nuclear reactor, Simon says radiation poisoning is bad which it is. But if your nuclear reactor is giving off enough radiation in particle or energy form to poison you something has gone horribly wrong. Right now there are people living in close proximity to nuclear reactors aboard aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines. And on US nuclear powered submarines there has never been a significant release of radiation or any nuclear accident. So these things can be built safe enough to live next to.

  • @3gunslingers

    @3gunslingers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, but the shielding used is *heavy.*

  • @3gunslingers

    @3gunslingers

    3 жыл бұрын

    @rogerwilco99 _"And you can shield using just regolith from the moon's surface if it's thick enough."_ Agreed. But then you better place that reactor OUTSIDE of the cabin. Because you don't want to fill a good portion of your habitat space with regolith.

  • @KA-dx2kz
    @KA-dx2kz3 жыл бұрын

    The Canadia Avro Arrow would a great topic, or even part of a after ww2 common wealth plane video.

  • @tncorgi92

    @tncorgi92

    3 жыл бұрын

    The History Guy did a video on the Avro Arrow last November but I'm sure Simon's team could put together a little more on it.

  • @ItzxRhino

    @ItzxRhino

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @deltacx1059
    @deltacx10593 жыл бұрын

    There is so much going back in time on megaprojects we should be swimming in paradoxes.

  • @blakewilliams1959

    @blakewilliams1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nope. That’s just a very stressed blend of your imagination and provided rhetoric causing the mind to wander. There should be a few doctors interested in prescribing treatment for such an illness.

  • @blakewilliams1959

    @blakewilliams1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well if you need assistance with that from of all places KZread comments then I’d say your in some kind of trouble. Maybe try letting Alex Jones and InfoWars know about that. Then I’m sure you will get the credit you so rightly deserve

  • @blakewilliams1959

    @blakewilliams1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha, just cause you think your winning doesn’t mean mean you are. While your gone try reviewing your English as well. Like using semicolons to express connected but separate concepts in a sentence. Don’t worry you’ll be able to do more than support someone else’s ideas eventually; one would hope.

  • @blakewilliams1959

    @blakewilliams1959

    3 жыл бұрын

    Say whatever you want to try to make this thread about your character and not your content. Should anyone like to read through this including the ones who posted the video, they will see your first comment. Try to remember next time when you speak you are building on your previous words. That’s how a debate works; which is what this was. However, you start with outlandish claims, then try to attack my character and “leave”, then present yourself as a character. All this while not addressing my first words, but by changing the subject. I see someone was watching the presidential debates recently. Too bad most people see through this. Don’t forget to show your friends this thread

  • @jefforeee

    @jefforeee

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blakewilliams1959 "you think your winning"...try YOU'RE next time, b4 u go bashing others grammar ...just sayin

  • @peters6383
    @peters63833 жыл бұрын

    The scientist were not talking about nuclear power generating stations most people are familiar with but smaller devices called betavoltaic devices that convert radiation directly into electricity similar to how a solar panel generates power from photons. much smaller and simpler.

  • @stanwatson9049

    @stanwatson9049

    2 жыл бұрын

    Im amazed you know of Betavoltaic generators those also power the TR-3B and TR-6 Charged Particle Beam Weapons Systems.

  • @padawanmage71
    @padawanmage713 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of the storyline in the series 'For All Mankind', on how both the the US and Soviets created bases on the moon.

  • @gustavgans8964
    @gustavgans89643 жыл бұрын

    You should do a video about Camp Century. A Military Base underneath the ice in greenland. It was actually built during the cold war.

  • @jacobhuff3748
    @jacobhuff37483 жыл бұрын

    Asteroid 2020,The only candidate that you need to worry about.

  • @AdamIsUrqed

    @AdamIsUrqed

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the best, most qualified, candidate the people should vote for

  • @anarchyantz1564

    @anarchyantz1564

    3 жыл бұрын

    Let us vote for the Rock (not DJ, the space rock) to lead us into a new era of enlightenment and we shall all bask in its glow! Praise be to ATOM!

  • @jacobhuff3748

    @jacobhuff3748

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anarchyantz1564 We are the Children of Atom.

  • @anarchyantz1564

    @anarchyantz1564

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jacobhuff3748 Exactly, soon we all shall reach division and become one with Atoms glow!

  • @scottk3034
    @scottk30343 жыл бұрын

    Well considering we have reactors on ships I don't see to much a problem or reactors in habitable areas.

  • @parkerea

    @parkerea

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shielding just might be a little bit of an issue. In the Apollo days it took 950,000 gallons of fuel to get the LEM to the moon, so imagine how much fuel it would take to get enough lead shielding up there.

  • @TheHuangShan

    @TheHuangShan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@parkerea That is for active reactors. The way to do this is to take it to the moon as parts and assemble it there - the shielding would simply be big ol' pile of regolith between people and the reactors.

  • @simul8rduude

    @simul8rduude

    3 жыл бұрын

    You would have to assume that the 12 stationed soldiers would not have the 100% technical know-how to contain any problems that would come with having to maintain 4 nuclear reactors....on the moon....

  • @koori3085

    @koori3085

    3 жыл бұрын

    Greenpeace had a problem with putting a few grams of polonium on a satellite to go to Saturn, what do you think they'd say to sending pounds up?

  • @simul8rduude

    @simul8rduude

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@koori3085 were not 100% accurate at sending shuttles to space, which is why it was ruled out in just blasting all of our nuclear waste to the sun. Any one accident could spread radioactive fallout everywhere. Be like chernobyl all over the place.

  • @thefrustratedtheologian6238
    @thefrustratedtheologian62383 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of moon bases, let's not forget the TV show, Space 1999. A nuclear pile detonated causing the moon to leave orbit.

  • @stefanschleps8758
    @stefanschleps87583 жыл бұрын

    We will establish a colony on the moon, when ET let's us.

  • @michaelfoulkes9502

    @michaelfoulkes9502

    Жыл бұрын

    We probably already have a base on the moon. It’s just kept secret from the general population.

  • @19billdong96
    @19billdong963 жыл бұрын

    Let’s ‘accidentally’ drop these plans by the Chinese military’s doorsteps and watch *Space Race 2.0*

  • @anarchyantz1564

    @anarchyantz1564

    3 жыл бұрын

    You dont need to, they have already said couple of years ago they are looking to have a base there within next 8 years so mid 2020s. They are working really well at their new rockets, rovers and probes and should be credited more for it. They will be the first there. Murica is doing it half assed as usual, but once President Harris comes in, all funding will be stopped.

  • @anarchyantz1564

    @anarchyantz1564

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Herman Greenfield Using "OMGWTF" and "adult" in the same barely legible sentence, must be a know nothing self absorbed millennial that does whatever their Facebook propaganda tells them to. Perhaps you should slink back into your "safe space" before it gets too hot for you snowflake and you melt.

  • @timbushell8640

    @timbushell8640

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Charles Lim Far side - it isn't dark : )))))

  • @lakaiskates8064

    @lakaiskates8064

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Herman Greenfield Let me guess, the comment about Harris makes him a Nazi? You people are clowns!

  • @coreytaylor447

    @coreytaylor447

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anarchyantz1564 dude, they are a troll and not a very good one at that, giving them attention only feeds them

  • @cosmoflanker
    @cosmoflanker3 жыл бұрын

    Of course now you have to do Project Lunex, the competing USAF version.

  • @TrickyClaw
    @TrickyClaw3 жыл бұрын

    Fallout Equestria: Project Horizon has taken on a whole new level of understanding for me after watching this.

  • @pizzamovies23

    @pizzamovies23

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha exactly

  • @juantelle1
    @juantelle13 жыл бұрын

    "Technological advances have narrowed and plateaued. We have state-of-the-art smartphones seemingly released every month... But, is this really changing the world? Are we still pushing the boundaries of innovation?"

  • @PetrSojnek

    @PetrSojnek

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Charles Yuditsky Well arguably we may not be pushing forward, but we are pushing deeper. Stuff gets more effective, cheaper, mass produced. I think that also is important for future. It's cool to have 1 rocket to get to moon and back (with lots of luck or so they say) but that's not building anything anywhere. Next step would be streamlining that process and that's sort of what happens even now with Elon's recyclable rockets etc.

  • @watcherit1311

    @watcherit1311

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PetrSojnek Some people also preferred to work on making more effective and cheaper horse carriages, while some invented a car...

  • @vcoonrod

    @vcoonrod

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is typical for true innovation to cease when monopolies take over. Takes time to shake that up, sometimes decades. Plateaus benefit a few oligarchs with great power.

  • @danielmurtagh5924
    @danielmurtagh59243 жыл бұрын

    Living in a cylinder next to reactor is silimilar to a nuclear sub? So I guess not to crazy.

  • @timberwolf27
    @timberwolf273 жыл бұрын

    How they got around having a reactor in the same tube? Submarines....

  • @markpoidvin5382

    @markpoidvin5382

    3 жыл бұрын

    I love how he brushes off the whole thing as fantasy, without giving a single solid reason for any part of it to be impossible. There was not a single thing, including the chickens, that could not have been done by 1970.

  • @Kathlanus

    @Kathlanus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@markpoidvin5382 I don't doubt they could have pulled it of from a technological perspective. But the cost would have been insane. And definitley not by 1970 considering Armstrong was up there in 1969

  • @LikeTheBuffalo
    @LikeTheBuffalo3 жыл бұрын

    "We _cannot allow_ a mine-shaft gap!" - the perfect Cold War metaphor courtesy of Kubrick and Scott

  • @JackBWatkins

    @JackBWatkins

    3 жыл бұрын

    “Gentlemen, there is no fighting in the WAR ROOM.”

  • @infernosgaming8942

    @infernosgaming8942

    3 жыл бұрын

    “Mein Führer! I can walk!”

  • @DSlyde
    @DSlyde3 жыл бұрын

    I have read that report. Davy Crocketts and Land Mines are not in it, but i see them mentioned everywhere. Where the hell did that idea come from?

  • @rexmann1984
    @rexmann19843 жыл бұрын

    They're lights on the moon. They shine at random intervals. Liquid salt reactors are light weight and compact. Those ambitious engineers and scientists were only in their late thirties when they came up with these ideas.

  • @Soph27199
    @Soph271993 жыл бұрын

    Ummm....we do have a now-funded moon base project.... artemis Was announced like last month....be a great video idea *hint*

  • @colderwar
    @colderwar3 жыл бұрын

    The video starts at 3:20, with some waffling ( yes Simon, I know what the moon is ) - then another advert at 5:10 - it finally resumes at 6:40

  • @Danielle_Zor-El
    @Danielle_Zor-El3 жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't a moon base seem logical as a stepping stone to a Mars mission?

  • @robbytheremin2443
    @robbytheremin24433 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid, there was a show hosted by Walter Cronkite called “the 21st century”. He said we would all have our own personal robot. Well, it’s the 21st century and I want my damn robot! 🤬

  • @kylekyle7386

    @kylekyle7386

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have been saying the same thing. It might be a few decades, but it WILL happen because someone (someBOT) needs to cook, wash clothes/dishes/car, vacuum, run to get groceries and change the babies diapers. You can't rely on in insufficient lazy human to do all things. That lazy human will be laying in bed with his latest model BB-Busty, thinking of the long night he had with her/it/him/thing and planning on his next all- nighter.

  • @Carepedoit

    @Carepedoit

    3 жыл бұрын

    Say “Alexa” out loud.

  • @finalmage6
    @finalmage63 жыл бұрын

    Simon: We need to travel back to the times of the Cold War. 2020 World: Can we...not?

  • @ab5olut3zero95

    @ab5olut3zero95

    Жыл бұрын

    You really think we’re not already in a second Cold War? Or that we might not be still fighting the first cold war with new boundaries?

  • @mrmikecebu
    @mrmikecebu3 жыл бұрын

    MY BROTHER, in us army had a top secret clearance told family and me at just 5 yrs old in 1956 that army was building bases on the moon and that there were glass covered craters some broken,long before any modern movies or info.

  • @markholm6955
    @markholm69553 жыл бұрын

    One of the big issues of going into space - is all the background radiations - that the earth’s natural process keep from reaching us living on it. There is a need for shielding on structures built on the moon or Mars - better spacesuit to allow people to live long term in places not protected like earth is.

  • @jeffa7292
    @jeffa72923 жыл бұрын

    come on simon,I have been asking for you to do a video about the original world trade center that was destroyed on september 11th,2001 please do it for me

  • @tomcrockett7941
    @tomcrockett79413 жыл бұрын

    So, what you are saying is that a Death Star was conceived in 1959.

  • @dominikjames7269
    @dominikjames72693 жыл бұрын

    I have been following this channel for a while now and I absolutely love it. I have a suggestion, please do tell me if this has already been done, the massive global network of satellites that connect our daily world together.

  • @tyroberts2261
    @tyroberts22613 жыл бұрын

    The main reason I can see for going to the Moon is see whether humans can survive in 1/6 th gravity. With only three seconds for radio signals to travel back and forth. anything worth doing there can be done from here remotely. If we don’t know the effects of 1/6 gravity, any ideas of living on Mars 1/3 gravity is lunacy.

  • @freesk8
    @freesk83 жыл бұрын

    For a great classic sci-fi book about settlements on the Moon, check out "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by R.A. Heinlein.

  • @jamesmaultsby5588

    @jamesmaultsby5588

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then Mars must be a Bitch!

  • @cylontoaster7660
    @cylontoaster76603 жыл бұрын

    Elon Musk seems to be taking the reigns on the absurdly ambitious projects, and I am glad he does. At this point, we are going to need private industry to help push the boundaries, especially since our Federal plans for major space projects, like moon bases and the like, seem to fall through and change every 4 to 8 years when a new president comes into office.

  • @keeganscorner3837

    @keeganscorner3837

    2 жыл бұрын

    We've already got bases on the moon and Mars, the public space program (NASA) and the us navys secret space program (solar warden) are two completely different things. One of the most top secret things on the planet.

  • @kettelbe

    @kettelbe

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@keeganscorner3837 sources? Lol

  • @kettelbe

    @kettelbe

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@keeganscorner3837 show me the space launches for the infrastructures lol. We would have surely seen them ;)

  • @keeganscorner3837

    @keeganscorner3837

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kettelbe I will show you the video footage, what is your email

  • @keeganscorner3837

    @keeganscorner3837

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kettelbe they don't use conventional rockets for space travel, they have advanced way past rocket technology. But we the public don't get to know about this kind of stuff.

  • @Dodge0359A
    @Dodge0359A3 жыл бұрын

    Do the Pennsylvania Turnpike! It was quite a megaproject!!

  • @benjaminrichard7741
    @benjaminrichard77413 жыл бұрын

    The latest space force video implies there is an enemy base on the dark side of the moon.

  • @brianhiles8164
    @brianhiles81643 жыл бұрын

    You’re talking about an American Army base on the Moon, when we haven’t even yet dealt with those Nazis in their secret Antarctic base? And this is not to even mention Air Force *Project Lunex,* the Russian *Project Zvesta,* and *Pink Floyd* on the dark side of the Moon. _C’mon, priorities!_

  • @obelic71

    @obelic71

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup Nazis beat the americans and Russians in this one. Always those damned Nazis on the dark side of the moon 😂 A must see enjoyable guilty pleasure movie kzread.info/dash/bejne/gq2Tq9CdhcXJqMY.html

  • @brianhiles8164

    @brianhiles8164

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Andy Peek : Now, now. Don't be so down. There's light at the end of the cosmological tunnel. _(*Sigh*. Why does_ nobody _get my humor?_ and/or _Why can't they understand that I know everything, all the time?....)_

  • @quoniam426
    @quoniam4263 жыл бұрын

    We need some absurdly ambitious projects right now? Elon Musk: Hold my beer! Except that I'll go for Mars straight away.

  • @M4rtinK

    @M4rtinK

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, the lunar variant of Starship proposed as part of Artemis would be able to land ~100 tons per trip. That's basically the full Project Horizon mass to lunar surface just in two landings (not two flights - there would be multiple Starship Tanker flights to reafuel the Lunar Starship before each flight) & all of this using reusable rockets. Not the 100+ expendable launchers needed to do the same in the original proposal - no wonder the costs were projected to be so high! So progress is certainly being made. :)

  • @ACTSRevolution
    @ACTSRevolution3 жыл бұрын

    Marvell Comics' "Whiplash" : "drones ONLY... no soldiers. People make problem."

  • @BiscuitLazers44
    @BiscuitLazers443 жыл бұрын

    love the final words. keep up the good work!

  • @JamesSchriever
    @JamesSchriever3 жыл бұрын

    Just take what we've learned from nuclear-powered submarines and use it for the moon. We've had sailors next to nuclear plants for many many many years

  • @Tricksterboom
    @Tricksterboom3 жыл бұрын

    Perfect timing to catch this before I sleep 👌

  • @ethanknight6597

    @ethanknight6597

    3 жыл бұрын

    Where are you from?

  • @POTATOEH81

    @POTATOEH81

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ethanknight6597 some where In asia

  • @Rapsaj
    @Rapsaj3 жыл бұрын

    Surf ‘n’ turf on the moon would be quite interesting

  • @chriso3780
    @chriso37803 жыл бұрын

    There has been talk about using ancient volcanic tubes/caves to form bases underground which I find to be really interesting.. Simon can you do a part 2 about that!?!?

  • @BackYardScience2000
    @BackYardScience20003 жыл бұрын

    How do you know that they haven't built a secret base on the moon that nobody knows about yet? Haven't you seen space force, the tv show? 😂😉

  • @hosermandeusl2468

    @hosermandeusl2468

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...Space 1999?

  • @ELCADAROSA

    @ELCADAROSA

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@hosermandeusl2468, yeah, and look how that ended!

  • @DarkKatzy013

    @DarkKatzy013

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nah it's because the Nazi's went there in the 30-40's . Then when the US went there when we did they where like fuck off this is ours now. Lol 😂😂. Idk it sounded better in my head.

  • @AdamIsUrqed

    @AdamIsUrqed

    3 жыл бұрын

    If anyone has a moon base, it's Elon. Probably partnership with Richard Branson. Virgin-Tesla Corp. Since water has recently been discovered, I imagine Nestle will be next.

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    Engine problems ? Stuck in orbit? Toilet frozen ? Did your rover get stolen ? Call Space Force. Same month service maybe available.

  • @alexander1485
    @alexander14853 жыл бұрын

    if it wasn't for religion and politics.... we would have been 1000 years advanced, at least.

  • @deth3021

    @deth3021

    3 жыл бұрын

    If it wasn't for religion and politics we wouldn't have society or science.

  • @Viper-dn8ix
    @Viper-dn8ix3 жыл бұрын

    To be honest Simon, I love every video you've made. I have however noticed a lack of airports, and would like to request Denver International Airport first. It's the second largest airport in the world by land, 5th busiest in the USA and in the top 25 busiest in the world. There are also a number of conspiracy theories surrounding it, which are pretty interesting. When it was being built it went massively over budget (par for the course really), and had a few malfunctions with a baggage claim system. Still a very interesting megaproject that I think you should cover!

  • @tonynavarro8375
    @tonynavarro83753 жыл бұрын

    This video was more amusing than informative. It was like a fellow from the 1800s giving a tongue-in-cheek talk about his ideas of the future to a present day audience. I would have preffered a video about viable modern day ideas for a future moon base concept such as ALL of the base being underground since the moon is subject to the occasional meteorite strike. Any above ground structure would need to be built like a bunker wiht main access from below, and emergency access only on the surface. Lighting would be mainly provided by bundles of optic fiber cable bundles from collector arrays on the surface filtering sunlight via smaller bundles of cables throughout the base, plus a series of electrical lights and generators powered by solar arrays under armored glass also on the surface. Any greenhouses and farms would also need to be underground. Any radar/radio communication arrays would need to be alored against meteorite strikes, or retactable for the same reason. Military protection would be in the form of wire guided missiles, rocket batteries, electromagnetic rail guns, and combat rifles and pistols using caseless ammunition to avoid the nuicance/danger of ejected shell casings; bullets nowadays have their own oxygen in their proppelants so they should be perfectly usable on the moon and in space. Recoil can be dealt with via proper training. Claymores are also a nice touch. RPGs are also viable since they are essentially man portable and recoilless. Finally, for lunar surface transportation, a modified wheeled armored vehicle is a better bet than any fancy lunar roveras protection against meteorite strikes. save the lunar rover design with big windows for the tourists who will not mind the sanger of meteorite strikes and gamma radiation hazards.

  • @billysgeo
    @billysgeo3 жыл бұрын

    “Do something challenging and awesome for the betterment of science and humanity’s future?” Nope! Do it because your political foes might do it first! Right away!

  • @justinmartin4662

    @justinmartin4662

    3 жыл бұрын

    The betterment of human life and the fight against communism are one in the same. I’d rather eat than send people into space, while communists are always willing to starve their population to fund what the boss wants, to genocidal levels.

  • @billysgeo

    @billysgeo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@justinmartin4662 OK boomer. I'll let you finish that Koolaid you are drinking.

  • @patrickbrookings
    @patrickbrookings3 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately, it seems that these days the only things that count are politics, racism, and all the (fake) social media posts. Humanity needs to stick together and to move onwards instead of beating each other up. I love your videos and channels, and the way you present them, please keep it up!

  • @curtvona4891

    @curtvona4891

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said, Patrick.

  • @grimdolo918
    @grimdolo9183 жыл бұрын

    One of the biggest hurdles for colonizing the Moon and Mars is going to be the low gravity. We should start with an O'Neill cylinder. It would be more useful.

  • @TNclimate
    @TNclimate3 жыл бұрын

    No mention of Artimis and the planed moon base? They are awarding contracts now for logistical services. It seems worth a mention

  • @mashrien
    @mashrien3 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of the cold war and moon bases.. The DOS games "WAR" and "MoonBase" were *awesome* staples of the pre-CGA/monochrome era of confuser gaming.

  • @JustinWillisDevil240Z
    @JustinWillisDevil240Z3 жыл бұрын

    There is an alternate history where this video is called, "That time a bunch of soldiers died of radiation poisoning on the moon"

  • @TheRomanWolf
    @TheRomanWolf2 жыл бұрын

    There was a brilliant TV show (mini series?) about pretty much this. And America vs. Soviet bases, where they did almost start a war in space over bases/land on the moon ;) I think it was just called Moon, from memory it was a History channel show for some reason?

  • @seanbrazell6147
    @seanbrazell61473 жыл бұрын

    The ice-skating seeming footwear actually makes sense. The less contact a foot has with the surface the less dust you kick up to get into everything.

  • @vast634
    @vast6343 жыл бұрын

    A smartphone with a 1 week battery life would be such an ambitious project.

  • @kleinjahr
    @kleinjahr3 жыл бұрын

    There’s an old short story , The Long Watch, by Heinlein I think. Basically what happens when there is a nuclear missile armed base on the moon. Well worth the read.

  • @christopherrasmussen8718
    @christopherrasmussen87183 жыл бұрын

    What gets me is Von Braun was already designing a Mars ship to put on top of the Saturn V. He had the rocket and figured we would have been on Mars by the 1980s. Like we all know, once we walked on the Moon, it was over. We did what President Kennedy said.

  • @matthewboggs9382
    @matthewboggs93823 жыл бұрын

    Video suggestion: the Pikeville, KY cut through project. An entire mountain was removed to divert a river and prevent flooding.

  • @ianmackenzie8831
    @ianmackenzie8831 Жыл бұрын

    Given that we've had nuclear powered submarines since 1952, and nuclear powered spacecraft since 1961, the skepticism regarding nuclear power seems a tad unwarranted.

  • @kyleepryor612
    @kyleepryor6123 жыл бұрын

    Great idea for a research video: How far can you see if the curvature of the Earth is 8in per mile squared.

  • @leholen381
    @leholen3813 жыл бұрын

    Maybe by the end of the decade the space force will have new plans for a moon base

  • @raybon7939
    @raybon7939 Жыл бұрын

    I was born in 1970. I remember the dream like era of this country mostly coming to an end around 1975 to 78.

  • @stuartyoung4182
    @stuartyoung41823 жыл бұрын

    The only barriers to having a moon base in the past, before the current era of private space development, were different priorities in government spending. The $1 trillion the U.S. spent (conservatively) on the War on Terror comes to mind...

  • @mikehimes7944

    @mikehimes7944

    3 жыл бұрын

    When newt Gingrich was running for president, he promised to build a moon base and one day make it the 51st state. The media laughed and said it would cost 36bn a month. Guess what we were spending a month in Iraq? Yeah. Adding in Afghanistan It was cheaper to build a city on the moon than bring democracy to the Middle East.

  • @davidgrisez
    @davidgrisez Жыл бұрын

    One big problem with establishing a moon base would be the huge massive cost that would be involved. Here on earth it is very costly to build a high speed rail way in California. The cost to build a moon base will be astronomical.

  • @fastman05
    @fastman053 жыл бұрын

    A Moon base/station should really be a international effort, just like the International Space Station (ISS) , Could be called International Moon Station (IMS)

  • @redroyal4287

    @redroyal4287

    3 жыл бұрын

    They would probably use the word "lunar" instead of moon

  • @redroyal4287
    @redroyal42873 жыл бұрын

    Simon: 13:07 *Elon Musk arrives from a point to point starship flight and a quick nap in his tesla driving itself on the way from the pad* Elon: WHO HATH SUMMONED ME!?!?!?

  • @christopherh-t2631
    @christopherh-t26313 жыл бұрын

    Topic Idea: Snowy Hydro Scheme in Australia, because why not?

  • @matthewdamp3296
    @matthewdamp32963 жыл бұрын

    Megaproject idea: Kansai International Airport. Leveling two islands to make room for runways.

  • @koharumi1
    @koharumi12 жыл бұрын

    Project horizon is like that movie Iron Sky. But America version. So the base would be a dark eagle...

  • @pigtailsboy
    @pigtailsboy3 жыл бұрын

    You know, it's surprising the moon hasn't been, if it hasn't been, utilized as a surveillance platform. It has reasonable sun exposure and it will never require de-orbiting or coarse adjustment to remain in orbit. The costs are higher especially when advancements to utility are on the table. However it may be less subject to sabotage and attack.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - A moon base 3:20 - Chapter 2 - Project horizon 5:15 - Mid roll ads 6:40 - Chapter 3 - Operational concept 9:15 - Chapter 4 - Daily life in the moon base 10:55 - Chapter 5 - Space wars 11:25 - Chapter 6 - The future

  • @Data-sk9ev
    @Data-sk9ev3 жыл бұрын

    SIMON! Do a video on the Antarctic Snow Cruiser!! Please!!

  • @whatthef911
    @whatthef9113 жыл бұрын

    It's great to see the Apollo Applications Program wikipedia page made into to TV series on Apple Streaming.

  • @jacobhuff3748
    @jacobhuff37483 жыл бұрын

    I can see a one problem here and one boon in this idea. 1. Space Chickens. What the hell, why would you put near flightless bird on a celestial body with ⅙ gravity. At least they be easier to debone and the muscle tissue be more tender. 2. Nukes in space who wouldn't want to see that, Damn international treatise banning testing nuclear weapons. The moon is probably a safer place to witness such a miracle.

  • @ryanday399
    @ryanday3993 жыл бұрын

    Just saw a picture and would love a comprehensive mega project on the Kalinin K-7 Russian Bomber.

  • @DouglasLippi
    @DouglasLippi Жыл бұрын

    Fear, survival, and competition is what made it all possible. It's why you get new phones every year.

  • @wthMerhaba
    @wthMerhaba3 жыл бұрын

    The fact that this thing would've had missiles and land mines planted around it for defense was just the icing on the cake.

  • @tylerrue3108
    @tylerrue31083 жыл бұрын

    I think the biggest hurdle will be defense from meteorites. There's no atmosphere for them to burn up in.

  • @ShinVega
    @ShinVega3 жыл бұрын

    @12:17 Loved this video!!! We NEED to come together as a species!! The world IS getting better and healthier and we need MORE collaboration :-) PLEASE PLEASE do St. Peter’s Basilica!!!

  • @jameslmorehead
    @jameslmorehead3 жыл бұрын

    We have a base on the moon. It was established back in '76 and has been manned by Air Force personnel ever since. It's in the process of being handed over to the Space Force.

  • @3gunslingers

    @3gunslingers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are there any sources for that? Or are you talking out of thin air?

  • @danieljob3184
    @danieljob31843 жыл бұрын

    It can work, but you have to make it Open Vector No Return, meaning that anyone who goes, stays! This system cuts around 60% to 75% of your costs, with the downside that anyone who wants to come back has to wait for Pan Astra to become a thing!

  • @andyelliott5084
    @andyelliott50843 жыл бұрын

    Recommend doing a video on the worlds largest Oil Supertanker ship, the largest ever made is the Seawise Giant previously named Jahre Viking.