Why We're Trying To Colonize Space
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- This docu-series covers all three of Earth’s next landing options - Asteroids, the Moon and Mars. The programmes explore the scientific reasons for and against each celestial body’s case to be the next that humans might colonise. They explore the technical and logistical problems and benefits of each - EG temperature at night and day, ability or inability to harness solar power and more.
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10/10 on the Bullshido-meter
😅😅😅 people probably thought that when the airplane came out
@@dumitrulangham1721BIG difference between building a plane and starting a new civilization on a planet that would likely be THOUSANDS of light years away. Especially when our civilization here can't even define what a woman is.
First of all, no disrespect to the people that have all they quote" opinions be they cynical or whatever. I'm just interested in the science part of it but right now I'm 70 years old. Don't have much time left for a bunch of negative stuff. Carry on😊
Keeping living well old-timer. Your hard earned wisdom and experience is needed!
I'll be 71 next month, I hear ya. Speaking of Science, Ice Domes? Whodathunk it? I like that idea! =D
I’m just a little under you pops
At 73 I am still very interested in all these developments what is negative positive what have you it's life Daddy-O
You've been led astray. You have little time left to pull your head out of your ass, forget about the devil's 'muh science' and get right with God.
The time you have left is little, you are right. Eternity however is a very long time to spend in hell.
I think if we can rendezvous with an interstellar object like Oumuamua we could bore it out enough to protect a spacecraft for landing on another planet...
2030s isnt that far off. The Artemis mission is within the next few years. Humanity is about to take a larger leap into the cosmos and im excited.
Maybe 2039 lol If its not space x I dont think anyone will be doing anything before 2035.
@@Lilmiket1000 Don't get your hopes up. We still haven't figured how to send man beyond low earth orbit (400 miles up). Mars is 39,000,000 miles away at it's closest orbit.
@@tmo4330I have already volunteered myself for the first manned mission to Mars but Elon has replied as of yet.
@@defectiveresistor I wouldn't mind being on the first manned mission beyond low earth orbit.
If the Artemis program is relying on SpaceX.. good luck. What should be the human test trials is still attaining low earth orbit. At some point the countries involved with funding Mr. MUSK will wise up and that will be that.
Yeah ... we can't even get a ride home for two astronauts from the space station in less than 6 months. Colonization? You guys are high.
High as kites man...or is it just me?
Especially funny idea that colonists from Earth will be more safe on Mars then on Earth. Mars closer to Jupiter and asteroid belt. So there are mire chances to get huge asteroid. And no atmosphere to protect from small ones!
Start making it then .action sbeak louder than words..from England 😊😊
All effort will be futile, we all know it. Humans should live on the Earth and they should invest in it, not some stupid-ass space colony in the middle of the UNINHABITABLE places. The logic - if the Earth becomes uninhabitable - let's switch to a whole other uninhabitable world. Btw, I do not think Earth will become uninhabitable. Bull.
And people are talking about living on Mars! We still can't send humans beyond low earth orbit yet. We can only go 400 miles up. Mars is 39,000,000 miles away at its closest orbit. These "dreamers" are silly.
Living deep in the ocean makes more sense
It always sounds so stupid to me when the reason for settling on anorher planet or in space is because of the weather or overpopulation. Pretty sure staying in earth and dealing with anything earth is dealing with would be 100x easier then those two things. Say the reason is for exploration, and human ingenuity instead, otherwise it sounds stupid.
I would say we are looking for the answer.
Population growth is an overstated problem. As resources are used, the price will rise and demand will fall. This incentivizes conservation and innovation to find more supply and/or substitutes. Let markets work. Of course, finding new supplies in space can be part of the solution, but people should not be getting overly concerned about population growth.
So I would say our best option for the moon to try to avoid highly charged particle/radiation from deep space and our local star would be to use the ability to dig into the moon lava tubes possibly
Watching this while fuggered and its great
Diaspora will be the Most important thing in human history, which means hastening it as much as possible.
If any Alien civilization advanced enough to travel the cosmos would be smart to destroy all Humans before Humans can catch up to them and destroy them like they destroy each other.
There's a reason they're called Love "Bites" 💋
At the rate we are failing returning to the Moon, this pathetic optimism is 3-5 hundred years away! It’s already been more than a half century since Apollo 8’s drive by!!!!!
Overpopulation.... Lol. So much for watching this, I don't give my time to propaganda.
Agreed. Overpopulation is a myth. Ehrlichian dribble.
And climate change. I am so sick of these propaganda
So in 1000 years time, you think that the Earth is still going to be at the same population?
Obviously, the Earth is not overpopulated now, but scientists think in geological time. So think 10,000 years from now.
It is a fact that we are going to have to put in controls that will prevent people from having too many children in the future. The only debate is when that time is going to come whether it’s hundreds or thousands of years.
I predict that these space habitat colonies will be very restricted as far as what it's habitants can and can not do. There will be very limited space very quickly on such habitats. The people that live in these habitats will be very select, and will have most of their lives subsidized by taxpayers on Earth. At some point some of them may have children in the habitat, but that will likely be very restricted as well. The only way to have freedoms that we currently enjoy today, is likely to find another Earthlike planet, and somehow get there to colonize it. I don't mean a planet like Mars. I mean a planet with everything earth has. When a young male or female can stray off, and leave the colony to build a small cabin alone in the forest, that will be a sign the same kinds of freedoms we have today.
Theres a lot of building materials out there though, if we could make use of that those colonists would have plenty of elbow room.
You mean, just like that movie oblivion Tom Cruise ends @ his cabin in the valley with ONLY greenery left on 🌎
That was such a good movie
How Utopian, but you can bet an Earth type planet will be exploited and destroyed, but much faster than this one as we will not of started off from scratch !
Gaz UK
Astro-NOT.
Assed bro, Naught!
We are explorers! We have done this for centuries!! We don’t stay in one place! Also If we don’t want humanity to go extinct then we are have spread into space whether we want to or not! Also we need to remember that a few 100 year ago we laughed at the idea of power flight for the masses!
Maybe we can have Ukraine pay for all of this... After they're done with Russia they will have a thriving democracy and will need something else that will never happen to waste their resources on.
When the sun goes Mars won't be an option either. This is all pie in the sky. Interesting though.
Just minutes after explaing the extreme problem of the lunar dust getting into everything, they say solar panels is the easiest option. Seems counterintuitive to me, but then again I'm no scientist.
Ice Domes on Mars? Now, there's something new! =D
I absolutely support exploration and making humanity multi-planetary. I absolutely recognise that there may be additional resources out there for that time, far off in the future, when we run out of those resources on Earth. However, the argument that the Earth will become uninhabitable, or in any way less habitable than anywhere else in the solar system, is just ridiculous and not factually accurate. The magnetosphere of earth alone, let alone all the other factors that make earth perfect for human habitation, means that we must always focus primarily on keeping Earth as pristine and habitable as possible. Space exploration and colonization of other worlds must always take a secondary priority behind preserving the Earth. For example, using space craft technology to save the Earth from external threats like being hit by a massive asteroid.
I volunteer to be on the first manned mission to go beyond low earth orbit!
Your soundtrack needs to calm down 🤣🤣👍
I just turned 77 and still fascinated by space travel and astronomy as I was as a boy in the 1950s, with all the great classic sci-fi movies back then. Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting us there faster than anyone else. At least he is making a hell of an effort while everyone else including NASA is sitting in the cheering section or the cheap seats.
amazing mate, never stop learning 🙏🙏 I hope to be like you
Hey I got an idea. Let's take care of this planet we live on. Oh never mind, that would require teamwork amongst 75 % of humans and that would require extreme mental health care for 100% of humans.
Came here to say the same. How about we take care of our earth instead? If we took proper care of it, it should last another few billion years. But at the rate we're going, we're not going to last another 100 years. Most of the damage we've done was in the last 75 years.
Hmm who to trust the world's scientist's or some random in the comments lol. Good vid!
I think we should 'colonize " our Ocean.... The earth is 3/4 water... Lots of potential real estate... We could build "skyscrapers" ... That barely break the surface... But run deep to the ocean floor... Pumping fresh air threw out from the top that breaks the surface etc .....
Until we can live every where on earth... We are not ready to live in space....
We could live in space now ... If we constantly shuttle food etc... very expensive... And dependent upon Earth...i wouldn't call that 'living in space"...
We need to conquer our oceans first... Then, we will be better prepared for space... Imo?
Because at some point in the future the sun is going to turn into a red giant boiling us alive before it turns us to dust on its what to a white dwarf. Best not to wait till last min.
Personally I'm trying to get away from clown world. Sign me up.
If none of the other reasons worked, this one will
Yeah in about 5 billion years. Mankind will likely kill itself off way before that happens.
It will take billions years before Sun explosion. Humanity will be extinct long before because of natural causes.
The real reason is because we are looking for our creators
6:49 Stargate Atlantis???
18:14 That is NOT true. Maybe it is hard to get stuff from our own planet into space. But there are tons of resources out there in space. You know. Like in the form of comets! So build a station near where there lots of comets, small body's. We can even use robots to start some sort of build..... There are so many possibility's
Man can't leave earth orbit nor can they launch space craft out away from the sun how will it function in plummeting temps that can't be replicated on earth.What about fuel, maintenance, failing components from cold temps
Isnt that atlantis from stargate in the thumb nail?
Without restarting the magntosphere of Mars, no atmosphere can be permanently generated, hence no colony. 😮DUUUHHHH
The ISS has no permanent atmosphere so please explain how people can live there 🤔
@@JonnoPlaysThey can’t.
@@JonnoPlays
They bring compressed/ liquid oxygen with them DUMMY.
@JonnoPlays
The logistics of supplying an entire colony with breathable atmosphere is cost prohibitive . Are you REALLY THAT STUPID????
The music has me look up and say "what the f***"
Lunar nights can be eliminated with Solar mirrors. A couple of satellites with solar mirrors will close problems with solar panels on dark side of Moon.
We cant leave🤫.
Shhhh. The normies can't process that information😅
Fun fact, we can't get into space. It's all a lie.
Please, do go on..😅
Well when we refuse to believe the real scientific data that C02 follows warming and is not the cause of warming. Obviously we would be hopelessly useless at terraforming any other planet.
No disrespect from what I have read and been told about climate change. Climate change has been going on since the beginning of time that has got warmer and colder millions of years ago. Not saying that the impurities that we releasing to the air does not have an effect but it's been going on a long time. So it's time it's going to change regardless ice age then it warms up blah blah blah blah blah. This is my position on it. Somebody help me out there.
It's the rapid change in climate that is the problem.
It's true, the climate has constantly changed throughout history, but it changes over the course of tens of thousands of years which allows plants and animals time to adapt. The only times that the climate has changed with this rapidly was because of a major planet-wide disaster - the type that only happens every 100 million years or so. The planet-wide change to the Earth in the past 200 years is the gases we're releasing into the atmosphere.
Yeah, climate has always been changing, typically over scales of thousands to tens of thousands of years. The risk isn’t the earth becoming uninhabitable, but that we would generally find it much harder to survive. Less so a judgement day and more a struggle to thrive.
And it will keep on changing right up until the sun goes red giant and blows away earth's atmosphere.
Been changing since it began and nothing will stop that.
We better do whatever we can to push forward technologically before the actual problem of decreasing birth rates leaves zero smart people left...
I'll be on that rocket with Elon laughing at everyone staying behind to "fix" earth so the sun can vaporize them.
The only option for survival is outward.
@@vanessacherche6393blah blah blah
I mean if you want to get extremely technical were not putting anything into the atmosphere that isn't already in it. Are we getting resources from Mars or aliens?! LOL
Yo! I doubt you have permission to use the city of Atlantis in your thumbnail lol… like give credit.
This will be just for the ritch
Naaaa they gonna need cheap labor
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It would be a huge endeavour with multiple shops that can take off and land on an asteroid and return landing on earth...
Maybe mars sacrificed itself for earth to live !
Leave it alone
Or stay behind the object with forward shielding from colliding with smaller objects...
I see this differently, population is on decline in many countries. As long as we don’t nuke ourselves we surely got hope. Explorations I see as us being in the enterprise of Star Trek visiting others sharing our progress 😂. Like beings invisible to us watching our growth now.❤ blessings to all.
It’s very disheartening to see how many people in the comment section don’t understand fundamentals of space travel and technology.
It wasn’t even 150 years ago that we first started flying, that is not a lot of time and now we have already moved onto the moon and Mars, where are we going to be in another 150 years?
I think its not the first time for us, we just made it back again
Because fucking up one planet in the universe is simply not enough.
Moonwalk your blues away! Be keen to protest climate change in zero gravity...
Nihilism on display here. No substance just pure emotion.
Exactly my thoughts
Quantum mechanic Theory and analogy Astronomy for four planets North Island Planet(assumption=Venus)Mars=East island Mercury=West Island (Present earth=South Island)Einstein's Relativity synchronize with life's Span of Today world(earth) life's Span.The string theory bound one Universe four planets set theory valid according to Quantum mechanic one planet. spin on its' own axis with each moon to solar system orbital process.
The most likely candidate for the colonization of another moon or planet when viewed in the context of doable now with the highest likelihood of long-term success with minimal negative effects on us would actually be in the Clouds of Venus....
(Which sounds quite dreamy doesn't it?)
Yes billions of people devote lives to working hard to save a few hundred scienists when earth ends. Where do i sign up to be a scientists.
I love the images of all these underground or dirt covered habitats. Here's the problem. Moving all that dirt (regolith) require a bulldozer (excavator). Whatever means you devise to move the dirt, it requires mass to do the work, even at 1/3 gravity. Moving dirt is a function of moving mass, not weight. So you still need a massive dirt moving machine. It would take hundreds of space launches to lift that much weight off Earth and get it out there. Just for one "bulldozer". That's just the physics of space launches from Earth due to gravity. Ya can't change the physics. You can only lift so much weight before the rocket is too big to lift itself and the fuel, never mind the payload. It's an unavoidable limit. So you would have to launch a bulldozer in pieces, requiring many many launches for that amount of mass.
Wish should move to Pluto, make it a planet again. 😢
The only reason to colonize space is for the only reason that matters to humans....profit.
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AI voice sucks👎👎🤬
Space X is on it 🚀
Why not terraform Earth first?
Trick is to find the right object heading in the desired direction...
Was a little confused why she states “we literally have NO idea.. what [mars’] gravity would do to the human body”..
If the moon has 16% of Earth’s gravity(EG) and Mars has 33% EG - so, twice as much as the moon - is it not a clear jump to assume the degradation of organs/rate of degr.would be 1/2 that at which it occurs on the moon?
Yeah see that's the thing. He didn't say there would be degradation, what he said was we have no idea. It hasn't been tested. Maybe we can endure it or adapt, or maybe we can't. We just do not know at all. That was the point.
@@jrlaudio true of course, we have no idea what’s going on on mars, however, SHE, was specifically referring to mars gravity. not “life on mars in general”. Just sounded a little silly after she had just explained what their scientific observations were on the physiology of the human body in 0G, and on the moon respectively..
Sending manned missions to Mars is a nice dream but that's all it is.
NASA's estimated cost is $500 billion.
Not even a public/ private sponsored mission can afford that.
Everything Elon Musk has said that he is going to do he has done. Once the technology is there, he will be able to get trillions of dollars from private hedge funds to fund his expedition. Just think of the marketing. If your company and you have technology that is working on Mars, it is going to make you billions of dollars here on earth. We’re going to find ways to make Mars profitable so we get there.
Talking about PPP 'efficiency' and Elon Musk
to surrect planets is how to live in a universe - life as center of the universe
in an infinite universe it makes sense to catch stellar wind
(mars as a megamachine )
- pull cables from pole to pole slightly offset for the dynamo effect
- a ring ocean around the equator would ignite the magnetic field of mars by tidal forces
Maybe the stone objects were sculpted on earth at sometime in the past and were levitated into space with ancient alien technology...
A colonial spacecraft would have to huge and shielded extremely well... Maybe being able to land and stabilize the rock it could stay on the dark side of an object without boring into it...
I have too say that sometimes you need to think outside of the box! If you get two quantum atoms that are split!? But there always connected! Quantum physics! when you alter one it immediately alters the other else where! Where ever it may be! So why are we not creating a communication system like this so over vast distances of Space, Speed and light doesn't matter! Because where using Quantum Matter!? Communication would be instant! Just saying🤔. If your a top scientist or need good ideas i am here!
Why hasn't they retired that old relic from president
A request is made most everyone who thinks earth is a wandering rock in outerspace take an intellectually/emotionally honest journey thru the playlist on "my page" and socially work together to find the truth that lay between... kids starve in the streets and war after war is waged...
Anyone who thinks Humans can live on Mars within this century or more need their mentality assessing.🧐
If you think it’s not possible obviously you have not been following the steps they have been taking it will be possible in the next 20 years century we will have the first true Martian baby
Columbus "discovered" America. Please tell us another funny joke😆
Overpopulation is not major problem for our planet.
People don't listen never will you all going wipe out
Hey Elon, check with El Salvador! 80,000 astronauts, ready and waiting.
Greed and fear is rational
Never before so likely that soon, being able to say fk you to the moon, could be carried through!
ummm... what are you smoking??? kan i haz?
I wish Elon would hurry up and ride one of these rockets, one of these experimental untested rockets. Then maybe his daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson will be able to control his interests. Wouldn't that be something. They have like a pseudo Gamora and Thanos dynamic going on.
If we dont get off here will die by the sun
Because its free real estate
Until ET demands we pay rent?
These people like to daydream, this will remain just a dream and that’s it 😂
You'd require a lot more than what you're outlining here for Space habitation.....a lot more
This AI generated content is such rubbish!
Why is this idea taking so long I’m 45 and nothing really interesting has happened my whole life, il be dead before you guys actually do something cool.
Watch the next Starship launch. More than twice as powerful as the Saturn V. That's something cool.
Axiom - Life spreads.
Abiding by our nature, and doing as diseases do.
Yes, vaccinate humans against extinction thru technology and innovation. This can be achieved by adding billions more humans.
Climate change yes, over population probably not. But if overpopulation projections changed once unexpectedly they can easily do so again.
The whole point is to have a society that doesnt overpopulate. Drive in a car with one passenger or drive in one with 40.
its funny at first, until everyone is in a car of 40
Global population projections may fluctuate, but the impacts of climate change are certain and based on solid scientific evidence.
With continued improvements in technology aqua mundi will be able to carry many, many billions more people. Chill the eff out.
Human beings are the artists.
The cosmos is a blank canvas.
Truth, goodness and beauty are our paints.
The cosmos is the most hostile environment this side of hell!
@endershepard7117 So is the earth, but that didn't stop us. We create knowledge, which can turn any hell into heaven.
@@NeilEvans-xq8ik tell that to the builders of The Titanic, bub. And also the Space Shuttle 🚀 Challenger.
@endershepard7117 All we can ever do is guess our way to progress. Sometimes, those guesses will be bad. But even bad guesses are better than refusing to guess and instead clinging to your favourite species of pessimism until the implacably hostile physical world destroys you for not having the courage to risk even a bad guess.
@@NeilEvans-xq8ik do not mistake my humility for pessimism, my friend. I couldn’t help but be optimistic, even if I tried… But I’ve learned to find a balance between Agent Fox Mulder & Dana Scully of The X-Files.
I want to believe but not if I have to abandon my critical thinking skills and the scientific method to do so.
Start now
The only way we are going to ever leave earth is we forget about money and only focus on the knowledge we will gain...yes people will die but that's the process we will have to live with...we want to go to mars...someone has to be first...no pain no gain...just do it....I believe it will take a catastrophic event to get our scary selves to act...to quote a phrase from a movie..."Life finds a way. "...take a chance...live or die...that's how learn...send a volunteer...and watch and learn...asked them what they are experiencing...I know it's unethical but it is necessary if we ever want to venture into the Un known....just do it...have redbull sponsor it😂...do it
I strongly believe that we will colonize our solar system but interstellar travel not so much
Earth was the only habitat human can live on! ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
They better ask the ET's if its ok first.........
If you think you have little privacy now. . imagine living on one of these space colonies you would be watched, monitored & told what to do every minute of every day & night. that’s no life ! I couldn’t think of anything worse
Am I the only one who hates how that guy said dinosaurs " dinasores"
This always seems like such a funny question to me, we are doing it because we are basically just bacteria spreading out in our petri dish. As we "advance" our technologies, the dish gets larger and larger but our behavior remains the same, consume and replicate. I've often thought that is an alien species watched out civilization long enough they would come to the conclusion that we eat trees and poop concert. One of the other questions we seem to ask ourselves a lot is why haven't we met other aliens yet and my answer to that relates to the initial question... Maybe actual intelligent species, of the type that can solve the sorts of problems encountered in interstellar travel, maybe they don't actually suffer from the instinct to consume and replicate. Maybe that's what intelligence is, no longer being compelled by evolution and being able to see a thing and not consume it. I don't think we are there yet, no matter how fancy our watches get.
Not trying it’s being done right now and has been going on for awhile but 🤫🤫 ITS
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