I have wondered about the Belters language. Sometimes it sounds like a mix of English and Afrikaans or maybe "Jamaican" style English. But, Alan, you are right. Humans need to develop the political will to get off the planet.
Belter language has loads of Portuguese, German, Spanish, and English. Traces of Mandarin, Hindi, Afrikaans, and Russian. Per the books, anyway. The idea is to imagine the present G-8 and BRICS as the first nations colonizing the system.
@eric vosselmans So start walking, get a tent, become a hunter gatherer. That will lower your carbon footprint and impact on the environment greatly. Tell us how it works out.
Your accent is adorable. I actually really liked to way they used accents to help with the world consistency. It seems to me like one of those little things that makes everything more real.
FINALLY, someone else sees Ganymede's potential for future space missions. So many people get caught up on the Mars hype and even Jupiter's arguably much deadlier moon Europa constantly overshadows it in pop culture and astronomy they view Ganymede as a boring icy rock and overlook it's unique attributes, like size, magnetosphere and subsurface ocean.
@@goodone5590 Titan is getting a lot of attention too, and deservedly so due to it's thick mostly-nitrogen atmosphere and liquid hydrocarbon lakes. I'm just saying up until recently most people just thought the only interesting thing about Ganymede is its size and nothing else. There may be a lot more underneath that muddy-brown icy crust than meets the eye is all I'm saying and I'm glade ESA is finally sending a dedicated mission to study it up close.
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Good Video Alan!! I'm a really big fan of The Expanse, liked the TV, and am currently in mid Book.6 of the books series.. Super well done story writing and good believable Sci-Fi! In my opinion, the idea of Ganymede being habitable is totally within the realm of possibility. The fact that Ganymede has a magnetosphere is a really big plus, and would lend itself to being used as was done in the Expanse series! Also, digging down into the ice, and building out in tunnels would provide really good radiation protection along with the magnetosphere of he moon. Thanks for the good video!!
And the magnetic field would not only be great for radiation protection, but also future terraforming. Ganymede may be better able to hold a thick atmosphere than Luna or Mars!
1:40 Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, but not bigger than Mars. Mars has a mean radius of over 3,300 miles, while Ganymede has a mean radius of only 2,634 miles.
Isn’t Europa the one covered in a layer of ice with massive oceans underneath? Also props for using belter creole for the entire intro lol Edit: ooooo I stand corrected that’s really cool.
@Emperor's ChampionThe 3 Galilean moons closest to Jupiter as you said have chock-fulls of radiation that make Chernobyl a holiday-home in comparison. Colonists would either live on Callisto (the least amount of radiation, even lower than Earth) or move all of their infrastructure undergrounds. I am curious if that makes it easier since the surface is now your radiate on shielding, plus 3 of the moons may have liquid subsurface oceans, so that's a nice bonus. EDIT: He actually did talk about living underground, which is what I think would most likely happen if we decided to colonise Jupiter's moons.
@@canowhoopass1949 Most of the Jovian System radiation is due to Io's volcanic eruptions spewing particles into Jupiter's Van Allen type magnetic belts. Io is it's own worst enemy.
Even if Ganymede was bigger than Earth, it would still be a moon because it's orbiting Jupiter, not the sun. I had this thought after the debate about Pluto. I thought the gas giants were probably looking at Earth and Venus, thinking 'how the heck are those tiny rocks considered planets?'
@@AlexandarHullRichter Once an object achieves hydrostatic equilibrium (in other words it becomes a sphere) it is more about how dominate it is in its orbit rather than sheer size. The reason Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet is because there are great deal of other objects in its general orbit, some of which are nearly its size. Since it hasn't cleared out its orbit by either consuming smaller objects or ejecting them by way of gravity, it is not gravitationally dominate in its orbit (the fact that Pluto is stuck in a 3-2 orbital resonance with Neptune doesn't help its argument as a full planet either). Since it has achieved hydrostatic equilibrium it qualifies as a dwarf planet rather than a asteroid or kuiper belt object. One interesting fact about Pluto is that it is currently (to my knowledge) the only known Double-Planet of any kind. A double-planet is where two objects are so close in size/mass and orbit that they orbit a point around each other rather than one effectively orbiting the other. Pluto's so call "moon" Charon doesn't technically orbit Pluto or anypoint within it. Instead they both orbit a point (barycenter) some kilometers above Pluto's surface thus technically qualifying as a double-planet/binary system.
@@lanebowles8170 The Earth and it's Moon are another double planet system if the definition is that the two objects are orbiting a common barycenter and not one orbiting the other. Liked your post btw!
@@EuropaWill Incorrect! (unless there is an official definition that supports your claim that I am unaware of?) If two objects that are orbiting a common barycenter and not one orbiting the other was the definition of a double planet then all planets with moons would be counted as such. The difference between a double-planet system as compared to a planet-moon system is the fact that the barycenter of the double planet is outside the physical dimensions of either object. Since the Earth-Moon barycenter is more than a thousand kilometers beneath the Earth surface, the Earth-Moon system is not a double planet system, though it does come by far closest of all the recognized "full" planets. But here is another discussion that should be had. What do you call a system where a star and its planet's barycenter is outside either of them, such as is the case with our sun and Jupiter? Can't be a double planet as they are not both planets. Can't be a double star since they are not both stars. Is there a name for such a star-planet system? I know of none.
As I've said to friends, we need a major capital works project involving the Moon and then Mars to jump start the economy. The amount of tech that was spun off of the Apollo program, if that could be repeated with a lunar colonization program, would bring a second golden age.
The biggest thing that needs to happen if we have any hope of widespread civilian space travel and colonization is for launch costs to come WAY WAY down! Right now, it costs an average of $10,000 per kilogram to get anything into orbit, making such dreams prohibitively expensive!
You should play a small belter role in Season 5 or 6. Something like an Amazon delivery guy delivering a package to the Rocinante. Naomi can come pick it up and you two can briefly talk in Belter Creole.
Allen: I’m going to talk about human feces being turned into fertilizer Matt Damon style while showing a woman walking through a field of wheat... presumably barefoot. Not w, Let’s talk hydroponics As a fun sidenote, any colonization of Ganymede will likely see thr use of a combination of aquaponics and aerponics (likely forogpomics). Water would be desalinated, anf put in a tank, from sh introduced to grow as a food and fertilizer source. This water is thrm aerosolized at the root zone reducing nutrient and water requirements for the plant to the minimal allowing you to produce more plant with less water and nutrient.
Fun Side Note: Human waste tends to be too acidic to use for most compost involving plants. Yes, if a people eat a very specific diet in theory their waste would be alright for using in a compost mixture. This also why not every animals waste is useable for composting either.
The other advantage of space exploration is it gives Humanity a bolt hole in case of a *zombie apocalypse.* Most deaths in space are the results of vacuum accidents or ship malfunctions and those either result in cremation or a zombie in a space suit - which can't bite and is effectively neutered. And besides, airlock doors make great defences. As an added side benifit, enforcing Quarantines and lockdowns are easy, and everyone has their own independent air supply, in case of Covid-77.
So, you said nobody is talking about Ganymede but The Expanse. Just want to remind you that the 2005 game Shadowgrounds and 2007 sequel Shadowgrounds Survivor are set in human settlements on Ganymede. Two of my favorite games ever. Love The Expanse though - thanks for the vids.
@@freetrailer4poor thank you. I went back and skipped ahead to 1:45. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm glad that you told me because I couldn't deal with the badly done accent in the beginning. I've traveled and worked all over the world and understand almost all accents and dialects of English. Whatever Alan was doing was terrible. ETA I haven't seen any of the expanse do I didn't know he was doing their accent.
There are no moons the size of Mars in our system. Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury, but are much less massive. Ganymede's radius, 1,635 miles (2,631.2 km) is 25% less than Mars' 2,106 miles.
In many ways, Ganymede would be the best natural satellite to colonize. Firstly, Ganymede has a magnetic field, which would protect settlements against radiation without having to be underground bunkers. Also partially thanks to this magnetic field, Ganymede is just about the only moon that could be classically terraformed (made Earthlike and thus habitable). The closest we could ever hope to terraform the other moons of our solar system would be to dome them over.
While I don't know if any of Jupiter's moons were colonized in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, there was mention of a martian colony, a mining facility on one of Saturn's moons, and an alien base on Pluto. I think you would enjoy checking out that series, and perhaps doing an episode about the ship it is named for. (hint, hint,)
Although we can live at temperatures higher or lower. The survivable range for minimally clothed humans is around 14°C to around 38°C. With extra warm clothing, there's really no lower limit for temperature we can survive. Considering you'd be in a spacesuit or pressurized habitat all the time on Ganymede, the cold wouldn't likely affect you.
You know how proud I am that future West Indians went on to colonize outer planets and become the Beltalowda. First time watching this series, I was convinced belters were yardies, and other islanders.
Actually, Ganymede has similar potential to Venus and Mars to be a world people live on long term or permanently and has a diverse economy. Once we get crewed missions and colonization of the middle solar system (the part of our solar system where the gas planets are), Ganymede and Collisto will likely be ground zero for settlements in the region.
You probably wouldnt ship soil to other planets. You would ship microbes specially tailored to process sterile soil into something more useful. Then you just need some good silicate asteroids shipped into orbit and some key elements shipped in in bulk like nitrogen (available from earth or venus, the latter of which we want to remove a lot of if we are going to terraform it, along with cooling venus off enough that the Co2 in its atmosphere precipitates out as a solid so we can easily get it out of venues' atmosphere before we warm it back up to habitable temperatures). Hydroponics or aeroponics will still likely be the order of the day, but only until your food and oxygen production plants produce enough waste biomass to make soil on site.
I actually came up with a little scenario in my head about how in the late 23rd Century, Ganymede was home to the capital city of a collection of colonies on a few of Jupiter's moons, such as Europa and Callisto, that by 2299 AD, became an independent nation called the Republic of Jupiter. This was one of five different planetary governments that humanity had set up as it colonized the Solar System over the last 2 1/2 centuries. The others were the Republic of Terra, based on Earth, the Republic of Luna, based on Earth's Moon, the Republic of Mars, and the Republic of Asteron, which was made up of several different asteroid colonies in the Asteroid Belt. These five nations were then part of a economic, political, and military alliance called the United Republics of Sol, or URS. There is a lot more to my scenario then just that, but I think its a pretty cool scenario. What do you think?
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Yeah, right. Just like we have on Earth, only one nation... I don't see different jovian moons under the same flag except for commercial or military unions. Just like nations on Earth. And the worst thing on that issue is the bloody "Earth is one nation" every sci-fi book/film/series/... happening near the Earth shows.
sounds interesting. I am curious as to the pressures that caused the formation of these nations. Nations are formed mostly for mutual protection and interests. People think that there will be no world government ignore the fact that until now there is no need for one.
@@angelrivera2339, for Luna, Mars, Asteron, and Jupiter, they were all former colonies of Terra. The way it works is that once a colony is well, fully colonized, and is stable enough so that there likely won't be any civil wars or revolutions or anything like that, they become independent, with compensation from Terra and/or the other Solar republics, depending on which colony it is. The ROT formed after a massive 3rd World War occurred in the early 21st Century between two major factions, a union of capitalist nations called the Republic of Terra, or West Terra, and a union of communist nations called the Democratic People's Republic of Terra, or East Terra, which left over 2 billion people dead. After the war, pretty much everybody left on Earth realized that the different nation-states on Earth constantly fighting each other, especially when there were already major environmental issues threatening to leave the planet in ruins, that they finally decided to unite all of the nations on Earth under one central government, which ended up being the Republic of Terra.
Call, Neil DeDrasse Tyson. He should have more resources, for more data on the subject. You already have most of the bases covered, buuut...it couldn't hurt. I think he'd have fun while you're at it, too.
Ganymede is cold, dark, radiated and so very far. And yet, if it helped ensure Earth remained a garden world for thousands of years, (i.e. hazardous manufacturing and resource collection is moved off world) I only ask when are we going, and do they stream generation films?
you should read Robert A. Heinlein's YA novel "Farmer in the sky" about colonizing Ganymede, its a quick read, and has only the knowlege we had at around 1950. I see alot of Heinlein concepts surfacing in the Expanse. from a variety of his books.(they didn't know about atrophy in the 50's)
Cannot wait for Generation Ganymede , I'd rather go there than mars for sure. I would like to think some materials technology could convert some of that high radiation into useable heat.
Colonizing Ganymede takes me back to reading "Farmer in the Sky' by Robert A. Heinlein (multiple times). Alas, Heinlein was an optimist. Ganymede is nothing like that.
Thanks for making my day with that accent, you are really talented. 😀 Oh and another awesome video.
Why he's talking like English African accent lol ?
Alejandro Gaming its the accent that one of the main factions has.
@@zakhaevshub4735 Belter language. You should watch the show, it's good.
Oh wow I've mistaken that accent lol
I'll try guys
The Dolphins have stuffed up the settings on Alan's voice chip again…
I hate it when they do that. Recalibrating voice chips are a pain and takes so much time
Why did they set it to fux Jamaican?
Or the Ganymede sea rats up and stuffing the settings on Alan’s ship
You can never trust an android
I have wondered about the Belters language. Sometimes it sounds like a mix of English and Afrikaans or maybe "Jamaican" style English. But, Alan, you are right. Humans need to develop the political will to get off the planet.
Belter creole sounds like a non-specific Caribbean Creole (French and African mix, mostly) with a dash of Spanish/Esperanto, me pensa.
Belter language has loads of Portuguese, German, Spanish, and English. Traces of Mandarin, Hindi, Afrikaans, and Russian. Per the books, anyway. The idea is to imagine the present G-8 and BRICS as the first nations colonizing the system.
It is a combination of all the languages actually
@eric vosselmans So start walking, get a tent, become a hunter gatherer. That will lower your carbon footprint and impact on the environment greatly. Tell us how it works out.
@eric vosselmans OK. If that is what you want. Getting 7 billion human beings to do the same will be a very hard sell.
Your accent is adorable.
I actually really liked to way they used accents to help with the world consistency. It seems to me like one of those little things that makes everything more real.
No doubt. This show is amazing, exactly because of "small" details like this.
FINALLY, someone else sees Ganymede's potential for future space missions. So many people get caught up on the Mars hype and even Jupiter's arguably much deadlier moon Europa constantly overshadows it in pop culture and astronomy they view Ganymede as a boring icy rock and overlook it's unique attributes, like size, magnetosphere and subsurface ocean.
You totally forgot about Titan
@@goodone5590 Titan is getting a lot of attention too, and deservedly so due to it's thick mostly-nitrogen atmosphere and liquid hydrocarbon lakes. I'm just saying up until recently most people just thought the only interesting thing about Ganymede is its size and nothing else. There may be a lot more underneath that muddy-brown icy crust than meets the eye is all I'm saying and I'm glade ESA is finally sending a dedicated mission to study it up close.
The Belter accent rocked. lol. Love it.
Eliminating Koala Bears _isn't enough …_
The Drop Bears and Leap Bears are even worse.
And don't get me started on the *Vampire Emus.*
Can we at least keep the Trapdoor Alligators?
@@thundercrash4775 Shh… the Americans don't know about those yet.
Glider snakes, blue ring calamari & chips, housos..
don't forget the Kamikaze Swoop Birds
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The accent though
Belter accent.
Good Video Alan!!
I'm a really big fan of The Expanse, liked the TV, and am currently in mid Book.6 of the books series.. Super well done story writing and good believable Sci-Fi!
In my opinion, the idea of Ganymede being habitable is totally within the realm of possibility. The fact that Ganymede has a magnetosphere is a really big plus, and would lend itself to being used as was done in the Expanse series!
Also, digging down into the ice, and building out in tunnels would provide really good radiation protection along with the magnetosphere of he moon.
Thanks for the good video!!
That 2 R dose a day tho... that's a hard pass from me.
And the magnetic field would not only be great for radiation protection, but also future terraforming. Ganymede may be better able to hold a thick atmosphere than Luna or Mars!
And also Ganymede is the only moon that could realistically be terraformed using conceivable technology.
So, almost the whole crew is speaking lang belta now?
it's only natural we clearly wouldn't do well on earth or mars
Protomolecule
British Ben still speaks....?
@@arnefines2356 Some posh british
@@ecthelionti4828 I always got a south African vibe over a Jamaican one.
1:40
Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, but not bigger than Mars. Mars has a mean radius of over 3,300 miles, while Ganymede has a mean radius of only 2,634 miles.
Isn’t Europa the one covered in a layer of ice with massive oceans underneath?
Also props for using belter creole for the entire intro lol
Edit: ooooo I stand corrected that’s really cool.
Too much radiation on Europa , Ganymede is further out
@Emperor's ChampionThe 3 Galilean moons closest to Jupiter as you said have chock-fulls of radiation that make Chernobyl a holiday-home in comparison. Colonists would either live on Callisto (the least amount of radiation, even lower than Earth) or move all of their infrastructure undergrounds. I am curious if that makes it easier since the surface is now your radiate on shielding, plus 3 of the moons may have liquid subsurface oceans, so that's a nice bonus.
EDIT: He actually did talk about living underground, which is what I think would most likely happen if we decided to colonise Jupiter's moons.
Poor poor IO all that radiation is melting that moon
"Also props for using belter creole for the entire intro lol"
It was terrible and gone on for far too long, i vote to space him.
@@canowhoopass1949 Most of the Jovian System radiation is due to Io's volcanic eruptions spewing particles into Jupiter's Van Allen type magnetic belts. Io is it's own worst enemy.
Wow...Amazon, please, give this man a role in the Expanse TV show! That was one hell of a belter accent! :)
1.30 straight of belter creole. Way to show us inyalowda how it's done!
Ai Pampaw, that was really good.
Correction!
Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, not Mars!
Ganymede is a moon, not a planet!
Even if Ganymede was bigger than Earth, it would still be a moon because it's orbiting Jupiter, not the sun.
I had this thought after the debate about Pluto. I thought the gas giants were probably looking at Earth and Venus, thinking 'how the heck are those tiny rocks considered planets?'
@@AlexandarHullRichter Once an object achieves hydrostatic equilibrium (in other words it becomes a sphere) it is more about how dominate it is in its orbit rather than sheer size.
The reason Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet is because there are great deal of other objects in its general orbit, some of which are nearly its size. Since it hasn't cleared out its orbit by either consuming smaller objects or ejecting them by way of gravity, it is not gravitationally dominate in its orbit (the fact that Pluto is stuck in a 3-2 orbital resonance with Neptune doesn't help its argument as a full planet either). Since it has achieved hydrostatic equilibrium it qualifies as a dwarf planet rather than a asteroid or kuiper belt object.
One interesting fact about Pluto is that it is currently (to my knowledge) the only known Double-Planet of any kind. A double-planet is where two objects are so close in size/mass and orbit that they orbit a point around each other rather than one effectively orbiting the other. Pluto's so call "moon" Charon doesn't technically orbit Pluto or anypoint within it. Instead they both orbit a point (barycenter) some kilometers above Pluto's surface thus technically qualifying as a double-planet/binary system.
@@lanebowles8170 The Earth and it's Moon are another double planet system if the definition is that the two objects are orbiting a common barycenter and not one orbiting the other. Liked your post btw!
@@EuropaWill Incorrect! (unless there is an official definition that supports your claim that I am unaware of?)
If two objects that are orbiting a common barycenter and not one orbiting the other was the definition of a double planet then all planets with moons would be counted as such. The difference between a double-planet system as compared to a planet-moon system is the fact that the barycenter of the double planet is outside the physical dimensions of either object. Since the Earth-Moon barycenter is more than a thousand kilometers beneath the Earth surface, the Earth-Moon system is not a double planet system, though it does come by far closest of all the recognized "full" planets.
But here is another discussion that should be had. What do you call a system where a star and its planet's barycenter is outside either of them, such as is the case with our sun and Jupiter? Can't be a double planet as they are not both planets. Can't be a double star since they are not both stars. Is there a name for such a star-planet system? I know of none.
As I've said to friends, we need a major capital works project involving the Moon and then Mars to jump start the economy. The amount of tech that was spun off of the Apollo program, if that could be repeated with a lunar colonization program, would bring a second golden age.
Major capital works? Not before fixing the infrastructure here first.
Jeff Benefiel some level of truth.
Wars always jump start the economy.
The biggest thing that needs to happen if we have any hope of widespread civilian space travel and colonization is for launch costs to come WAY WAY down! Right now, it costs an average of $10,000 per kilogram to get anything into orbit, making such dreams prohibitively expensive!
@@scientchahming5 Is that based on the SpaceX 63 million to LEO for a fixed maximum payload weight?
Best continuous belter accent I’ve heard...and thank you for stopping in a few minutes in
1:40 Small mistake, Ganymede is about 50% bigger than the moon in diameter not 150%, and it is smaller than Mars.
so fifty percent bigger, plus original size, equals, 150%.
Martin Hanke Well he said Ganymede is 2.5 times bigger than the moon, so 150% bigger.
Ganymede is smaller than Mars. You may be thinking of Mercury?
@@astrotrance true slightly smaller than Mars.
You are doing this really good! :-D
You should play a small belter role in Season 5 or 6. Something like an Amazon delivery guy delivering a package to the Rocinante. Naomi can come pick it up and you two can briefly talk in Belter Creole.
Damn I need to work on my belter accent you have nailed it
Nice intro...if I didn't know better, I'd swear u were a belter. 🖖
Once British Ben gets on the Expanse bandwagon, his character should be Martian - complete with a Mariner Valley twang.
I concur, the Solar System is now frontier.
Excellent “Belta-loada” accent impression! I enjoyed it! You had me partially convinced that you were from a island originally!
this tv show is amazing thanks Generation films keep up the good work
Allen: I’m going to talk about human feces being turned into fertilizer Matt Damon style while showing a woman walking through a field of wheat... presumably barefoot. Not w, Let’s talk hydroponics
As a fun sidenote, any colonization of Ganymede will likely see thr use of a combination of aquaponics and aerponics (likely forogpomics).
Water would be desalinated, anf put in a tank, from sh introduced to grow as a food and fertilizer source. This water is thrm aerosolized at the root zone reducing nutrient and water requirements for the plant to the minimal allowing you to produce more plant with less water and nutrient.
Im much more curious why the belters arent using the dead for fertilizer and growing medium?
Alan why are you sounding like ma jamaican
@@arbhall7572 they are
That Accent!!!
“At the end of the day we are all welawala.” We are all a traitor to our people?
I mean, seeing as how things are going world wide, yeah.
Welwala means "(gravity) well-lover", meaning you love the planets, not the belt, it doesn't literally mean traitor
Haha you have had the same reaction I have had with this show. I was a late comer to. Glad your putting out content on this gem
Fun Side Note: Human waste tends to be too acidic to use for most compost involving plants. Yes, if a people eat a very specific diet in theory their waste would be alright for using in a compost mixture. This also why not every animals waste is useable for composting either.
Animal waste, including that of humans, is too acidic to use as fertilizer?
Where'd you get that info from? 🧐
It sure took you guys a long time to find the show, but I am glad you did.
Another issue would be the fact that Jupiter is our solar system's vacuum cleaner. There would be lots of asteroids and comets to look out for.
The other advantage of space exploration is it gives Humanity a bolt hole in case of a *zombie apocalypse.* Most deaths in space are the results of vacuum accidents or ship malfunctions and those either result in cremation or a zombie in a space suit - which can't bite and is effectively neutered.
And besides, airlock doors make great defences.
As an added side benifit, enforcing Quarantines and lockdowns are easy, and everyone has their own independent air supply, in case of Covid-77.
So, you said nobody is talking about Ganymede but The Expanse. Just want to remind you that the 2005 game Shadowgrounds and 2007 sequel Shadowgrounds Survivor are set in human settlements on Ganymede. Two of my favorite games ever. Love The Expanse though - thanks for the vids.
The attempt at a Belter way of speaking went on until 1:30 but I had already given up at that point.
more power to your elbow go man
We don't die, we multiply. Humans first.
that accent is funny as hell
I love this channel ❤️💙
I'm just loving these expanse reviews.
I lasted for 49 seconds before I couldn't take the accent anymore.
Even the captions couldn't handle it. 1:20 of my life gone.
He stops the accent.
@@freetrailer4poor thank you. I went back and skipped ahead to 1:45. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm glad that you told me because I couldn't deal with the badly done accent in the beginning. I've traveled and worked all over the world and understand almost all accents and dialects of English. Whatever Alan was doing was terrible.
ETA I haven't seen any of the expanse do I didn't know he was doing their accent.
Great video!
There are no moons the size of Mars in our system. Ganymede and Titan are larger than Mercury, but are much less massive. Ganymede's radius, 1,635 miles (2,631.2 km) is 25% less than Mars' 2,106 miles.
Ganymede is not larger than Mars! 1:44.... Ganymede's diameter is 5,268 km, Mars's diameter is 6,794 km.
Double layered domes with a layer of circulating water separating them would solve the radiation issues.
Wakanda Forever 😁
In many ways, Ganymede would be the best natural satellite to colonize. Firstly, Ganymede has a magnetic field, which would protect settlements against radiation without having to be underground bunkers. Also partially thanks to this magnetic field, Ganymede is just about the only moon that could be classically terraformed (made Earthlike and thus habitable). The closest we could ever hope to terraform the other moons of our solar system would be to dome them over.
You yotalyforgoy Titan
That belter accent sounds more of Sheng (Swahili English) spoken in Kenya.
While I don't know if any of Jupiter's moons were colonized in Space Battleship Yamato 2199, there was mention of a martian colony, a mining facility on one of Saturn's moons, and an alien base on Pluto. I think you would enjoy checking out that series, and perhaps doing an episode about the ship it is named for. (hint, hint,)
Oh hell, why do i understand him now i'm becoming a belter
The surface temperature will certainly be a problem for us humans. we like 20°c
Although we can live at temperatures higher or lower. The survivable range for minimally clothed humans is around 14°C to around 38°C. With extra warm clothing, there's really no lower limit for temperature we can survive. Considering you'd be in a spacesuit or pressurized habitat all the time on Ganymede, the cold wouldn't likely affect you.
😄 Wasn't expecting... THAT.
Good stuff.🙂
You know how proud I am that future West Indians went on to colonize outer planets and become the Beltalowda. First time watching this series, I was convinced belters were yardies, and other islanders.
love how you put moon of Jupiter in the title, just Incase people though you was asking if we could colonised the Greek hero
If you do not insulate your foundation well enough your habitat would slowely melt into the surface
Okay, you sounded more like a Wakandan than Belter :-)
You're not moving your arms enough to incorporate American Sign Language in your Beltalowda Creole.
First the talking teddy bear and now the rasta accent, Alan is clearly having a hard time with isolation.
It's belter creole...
Hmmm. At 1:43: Ganymede (5,268K) is definitely not a small bit larger than Mars (6,779K)
Fahrenheit! Let's keep it scientific here. Kelvin only please
Moving to Ganymede is hard, that's why it will be just a base for filling Mars and Venus with Ganymede water after terraforming.
Actually, Ganymede has similar potential to Venus and Mars to be a world people live on long term or permanently and has a diverse economy. Once we get crewed missions and colonization of the middle solar system (the part of our solar system where the gas planets are), Ganymede and Collisto will likely be ground zero for settlements in the region.
oh duude, great work on da belta creole!!
amazing.
Awesome channel ! By the way, these moons and planets have been and are definitely being exploited right now
So when did they decide Ganymede was like Europa? Sounds, like a push for more funding.
You probably wouldnt ship soil to other planets. You would ship microbes specially tailored to process sterile soil into something more useful. Then you just need some good silicate asteroids shipped into orbit and some key elements shipped in in bulk like nitrogen (available from earth or venus, the latter of which we want to remove a lot of if we are going to terraform it, along with cooling venus off enough that the Co2 in its atmosphere precipitates out as a solid so we can easily get it out of venues' atmosphere before we warm it back up to habitable temperatures). Hydroponics or aeroponics will still likely be the order of the day, but only until your food and oxygen production plants produce enough waste biomass to make soil on site.
This must have been recorded on international pirate day
Truly Alan. Your space creole accent is very serious. I rather colonize the sea filling moon
I think you meant Mercury instead of Mars, dude.
Of course not. Heck, we can't even colonize the Moon yet.
I actually came up with a little scenario in my head about how in the late 23rd Century, Ganymede was home to the capital city of a collection of colonies on a few of Jupiter's moons, such as Europa and Callisto, that by 2299 AD, became an independent nation called the Republic of Jupiter. This was one of five different planetary governments that humanity had set up as it colonized the Solar System over the last 2 1/2 centuries. The others were the Republic of Terra, based on Earth, the Republic of Luna, based on Earth's Moon, the Republic of Mars, and the Republic of Asteron, which was made up of several different asteroid colonies in the Asteroid Belt. These five nations were then part of a economic, political, and military alliance called the United Republics of Sol, or URS. There is a lot more to my scenario then just that, but I think its a pretty cool scenario. What do you think?
Yeah, right. Just like we have on Earth, only one nation...
I don't see different jovian moons under the same flag except for commercial or military unions. Just like nations on Earth.
And the worst thing on that issue is the bloody "Earth is one nation" every sci-fi book/film/series/... happening near the Earth shows.
"the Republic of Terra" Not this bullshit again
sounds interesting. I am curious as to the pressures that caused the formation of these nations. Nations are formed mostly for mutual protection and interests. People think that there will be no world government ignore the fact that until now there is no need for one.
@@angelrivera2339, for Luna, Mars, Asteron, and Jupiter, they were all former colonies of Terra. The way it works is that once a colony is well, fully colonized, and is stable enough so that there likely won't be any civil wars or revolutions or anything like that, they become independent, with compensation from Terra and/or the other Solar republics, depending on which colony it is. The ROT formed after a massive 3rd World War occurred in the early 21st Century between two major factions, a union of capitalist nations called the Republic of Terra, or West Terra, and a union of communist nations called the Democratic People's Republic of Terra, or East Terra, which left over 2 billion people dead. After the war, pretty much everybody left on Earth realized that the different nation-states on Earth constantly fighting each other, especially when there were already major environmental issues threatening to leave the planet in ruins, that they finally decided to unite all of the nations on Earth under one central government, which ended up being the Republic of Terra.
Call, Neil DeDrasse Tyson. He should have more resources, for more data on the subject. You already have most of the bases covered, buuut...it couldn't hurt.
I think he'd have fun while you're at it, too.
How much practice did the opening take?
The belters are not quite talking like you did in your intro xD they leave out the verbs 😜
Look at Callisto, which is outside the main Jupiter radiation belt.
Love the first minute lol great you should have been on expanse good belter
Ganymede is cold, dark, radiated and so very far. And yet, if it helped ensure Earth remained a garden world for thousands of years, (i.e. hazardous manufacturing and resource collection is moved off world) I only ask when are we going, and do they stream generation films?
Radiated? Ganymede is the only moon with it's own magnetic field. In the Expanse women were even going there to carry a child rather than in the belt.
Ganymede has a naturally strong magnetic field
LOVE THE EXPANSE
What acceleration do belters use to travel?
What acceleration do most groups travel at.
@generationfilms can you make a video about the power armor in fallout
you should read Robert A. Heinlein's YA novel "Farmer in the sky" about colonizing Ganymede, its a quick read, and has only the knowlege we had at around 1950. I see alot of Heinlein concepts surfacing in the Expanse. from a variety of his books.(they didn't know about atrophy in the 50's)
Those armored suits too.
I dont know who made the bet on that accent but, we clearly won!
Speaking of the Expanse, did anyone manage to get all the way through season 4?
Yes. I really hope there's a season 5 soon. They were clearly gearing up for one.
8:40 Cersei Station? Wrong show, bro.
Cannot wait for Generation Ganymede , I'd rather go there than mars for sure. I would like to think some materials technology could convert some of that high radiation into useable heat.
Maybe? First! And WTF happened to u Allen at 0:01?
He's speaking Belter Creole (a hybrid language from the books and show)
@@robkemp598 oh.
de beltalowdas no need ta hide anymoa
Your Belter accent sounds more like a Jamaican accent.
Mixes with south african dutch and japanese
Ey love de video Bossmang
Cowboy Bebop colonized Ganymede before it was cool 😎
Does the expanse ever mention Io and Europa. I remember Arthur C. Clark felt they were good candidates for life
Is it just me or does that belter pidgin sound like nails on a chalkboard to anyone else?
"space is a hard place"
Problem of the expanse is that they take water air and gravity for granted everywhere they go without explaining how they produced it or maintain it.
Colonizing Ganymede takes me back to reading "Farmer in the Sky' by Robert A. Heinlein (multiple times). Alas, Heinlein was an optimist. Ganymede is nothing like that.
Nice try on the belter accent... CALLISTO would be easier to colonize because it's outside the radiation belt. Should watch ISAAC ARTHUR
Mars is bigger than Ganymede. That’s a pretty bad mistake guys, you need to fact check this stuff
Wouldn't the water contain radiation or would the ice layer protect it?
Mars is actually bigger than Ganymede.