Can We Terraform The Moon?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Are there phenomena capable of destroying the Earth or the human species in seconds? Many. What options do we humans have if that happens? The conquest of space is the next step that we must take as a species, not only because of the economic benefits that space mining can present but because it is the best way to ensure our survival. In this conquest towards the last frontier, there is an idea that has gained strength in recent decades: Terraforming.
Terraforming a celestial body means molding it so it can sustain life as we know it and make a planet equal to or at least similar to Earth. Although this has been explored a lot in science fiction, we are increasingly approaching the technological threshold to consider the terraforming of planets and moons as a reality.
Indeed, you've heard a lot about terraforming Mars but little about the Moon, and it's normal to hear about bombarding it with water-filled meteors like it was an easy task, looking to turn it blue and then green, but how true is this? What can we do to terraform the Moon? Is it viable? Let's find out!
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Challenges and resources to terraform the Moon
02:13 1) The lunar magnetic field
03:40 2) Water, atmosphere, and temperature
07:02 3) Gravity
09:26 Lunar colonization
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Thanks for the vid but you forgot to mention that moon dust is like tiny bits of glass that can rip your organs just by accidentally breating small amout of it
It will be fine! 😅
That’d definitely be a huge problem, but compared to all the other hurdles, it’s a lot more minor, by comparison!
Don’t worry. They can send me. I am a hybrid lizard man created from Mark Zuckerberg’s semen.
@@verlax8956 💀
The water and atmosphere could fix that. It'd be like walking in a desert.
What is envisioned in this video won't come to fruition for centuries. Easier said than done
Sure, but it's possible according to physics.
8:55 Not just the tides, but how it might effect Earth's axis of rotation and Earth's rotation speed. It could make it unstable.
I would definitely love to see the terraforming process on the moon one day plus, it'll be a miniature version of Earth
The first idea to get started might be to use Rovers and explosives to knock down hills on the lunar poles that block sunlight. While building up the high point you want to put your solar power tower(s). By removing shadowed areas means you can get continuous sunlight for solar power.
Even if not for common habitation, the moon could be used as a forward base for constructing and launching long distance crafts.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: nooooooooooooo.
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So, Yes then? We agree! Wonderful! Let's shake on it!
Longer answer: not right now. But if we went from tin cans on strings to smartphones in a century, surely this is possible, it's just a matter of time.
Probably kinda hard to terraform an alien spacecraft thats hollow 😂
Moonfall reference!
You could build bases on the Moon but not terraform it as such because of it's low gravity and lack of magnetosphere and any magnetosphere generator would require us to invent one and I somehow doubt that we are anywhere near close .
A magnetic field is just a magnetic. We’ve already created magnets we just have to get something to power it.
@@jamesmylife6578 contruscted* aka produced, it is work aka effort not "creating" at all.
An orbital ring system would be the best option as means to benerate an artificial one.
@@linyenchin6773 creating is a word meaning making something that wasn’t already there/ exist. There isn’t a magnetic field currently there so it would be creating as you are creating something that isn’t there. Or it could be in the sense of literally creating something that didn’t already exist like a time machine. Then you’d be right but then creating should be used a lot less.
Even with a magnetosphere to keep an atmosphere in place the low gravity is going to present another problem being that with lower gravity there is lower air pressure.
If you want to terraform something, improve our world and solve a worthwhile accomplishment where we live.
Exactly
Go to the highest spot on the Moon (it's at 5.41°S - 201.37°). Build a tower 1 Km tall (easy in the low gravity). Build another on the opposite side, one at each pole, maybe few more for good measure (some will be nearly 20 Km tall). A dozen will do, since they mainly act in tension to hold the roof in place. Ah yes, the roof...
Now roof the whole Moon over with a geodesic globe. Install three-metre thick panes of glass or sapphire. Fill with air, water, plants, animals, people. Enjoy.
Now you're shielded from radiation, and your atmosphere won't float away. Most of the time the roof wouldn't be visible.
Solar radiation aka short wave radiation passes through glass…
@@420inmysystem69
Glass can have coatings to block certain wavelengths, but yeah, that would have to be designed in. Let in a little ultraviolet, but not a lot. Keep out x-rays. Keep out the charged particles.
OK, so it's a _little bit_ more complicated than my description, but yeah.
We could also cover it with a balloon, held up by pressure differences.
It's made of delicious cheese. Why would we want to change it?
We could live on a cheese world.
In fairness we could colonise the Moon and limit the efforts to domes or other structures, where most of the issues (bar gravity) could be solved more easily. After all, it would require a lot of time to complete terraforming, even if we had the tech to do so on hand
Well, you’ve improved the idea from wet-your-pants laughable to merely impossible.
@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 with our current tech yes, but then again we have not launched any crew to the Moon since 1972 and the hodgepodge that is the SLS is having teething issues.
@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣 yep next they'll tell us they wanna make a base on Jupiter or Venus
@@paultheaudaciousbradford6772 What's that you just typed that with? We created millions or maybe even over a billion of them in a few decades. Never say never.
@@mr.nobody4529 You could have floating colonies over Venus' lower atmosphere. But about your comment, you're making building an iPhone in 2023 look like building one in 1923.
I wonder why everyone is so obsessed with the impractical atmosphere. What is wrong with a surface covered with lots of domes and cities, that go deep. Far more practical and resilient. And no significant difference regarding life quality, if done right. I also assume as technology progresses, life support systems etc. will become more and more irrelevant since interstellar travel is impractical anyway when it comes to using human bodies.
Very likely that planets that have much energy storage and are as cold as possible become more attractive since they can cool down computers to the maximum. Something that is often forgotten in science fiction is that funnily, one of the biggest challenges is cooling systems with a high energy output - like massive computers.
What if we covered the whole moon with a ceiling? Like a big dome over the entire thing?
You all seem to forget that we can terraform basically anything, its merely a question of how much resources we wish to throw at the effort, and if its worth that effort
Its all a matter of time
No, but we can probe Uranus.
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This might sound morbid but I think we should do everything we can to improve the Earth we already have and when the time comes that the species is threatened, just accept we had a good run
It sounds impossible and I am not religious but there is a real possibility that only We, are aware of the Existence of the Universe by a shear fluke of next to impossible Odds.
If we all die off, and there is No ONE to save US, so does also mean the Universe ceases to exist as well?
Agreed
Why not do both? Improve life on Earth while also becoming a space-faring species to ensure our continued survival in case of an extinction-level event were to happen.
@@keithallver2450 i wonder if humans would actually accept that sad fate
@@keithallver2450 really think about all the factors though: solar winds, no access to air freely, muscle and bone atrophy, just seems a whole load of effort
No, we can't even take care of the one rock we're on...
Too much greed. We should defund money.
If you have the technology to terraform a planet, you have the technology to fix earth
@@420inmysystem69 fix earth first, then go terraforming other places.
In theory, yes. But we could also theoretically breed a unicorn, doesn’t mean it will be exactly what you wish.
no, the moon does not have a magnetic field so a atmosphere wont stick. sorry that is just impossible...
@@D0G_CNactually that is incorrect. Superconducting magnets on the surface would be enough to create a magnetosphere strong enough to protect against solar radiation… look it up
It is certainly far more likely that we will terraform mars
@@D0G_CN he mentioned it in the video
@@ericgolightly8450 yeah sure, and we can make ocean water sweet too. but the cost is to high to actually do it...
The following will be hypothetical or at worst science fiction.
Most of the terraforming will happen in the huge caverns, referred to as lava tubes. Most of the habitable areas will be in these caverns. The habitable depth will likely be limited to the heat radiating from its core...(around 2, 500 degrees F.) Liquid water and gases like nitrogen and helium, might be available and may actually contribute a breathable atmosphere. Keep in mind that the radius of the Moon is over 1000 miles. So, even though the Moon has one sixth of the Earth's gravity that 700 to 800 miles of atmosphere adds up to some pretty good PSI. Depending on where you start adding up the amount of air stacked up above where you measure it will weigh proportional to one sixth of earth's 14.7 psi at sea level. On the Moon the same column of air might weigh 2.45 PSI. The International space station is located around 248 miles above the earth. If we try and make it proportional, 248 is divided into 700 miles and then multiply that number by 2.45 PSI, it looks like we would have a tiny bit less than 7 pounds per square foot. At 18,000 feet in altitude, the air pressure is around 7.3 PSI. Mount Everest Base Camp is at approximately 17,999 feet in elevation where the Sherpas get ready to climb the mountain. Mount Everest is around 29,000 feet. Of course, the colder air nearer the surface will make it weigh more but the warm air nearer the core will weigh less than the nearer to surface air. And, if you were to be able to go deeper, like down to 800 miles, providing the heat radiating from the core doesn't make things too hot. At 7.9 PSI on Earth the elevation may be a comfortable pressure for living conditions once your body adjusts its number of blood cells. Well, this all hinges on the caverns, (lava tubes,) extending to those depths, otherwise, a Tunnel-boring machine will be necessary.
The water has been accumulating in these giant caverns for billions of years from comets and from the gases being expelled from the sun and other stars. Natural sunlight can be transferred via current technology like fiber-optics will give the sunlight necessary for gardens and parks. Inflatable habitats and materials like "Gunite or Shotcrete" can be manufactured for reinforcing structures that may be domelike structures like the ones here on Earth...only much larger. Large cylinders with axis on either end can be entered from the center where speed of the rotation will be much slower. Elevators and stairways will lead to the sleeping quarters, kitchens, bathrooms, entertainment and exercise areas will all be available in the artificial gravity caused by centripetal force provided by the rotation.
At least on the moon we'll always have lots of cheese!
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Very old Cheese!
@@davidmacphee3549
So very true! 😀
@@GreenBoy424
Yes!! 🤩
WE FORGOT THE CRACKERS
Terraforming is not realistic but fun to think about
Agreed, people be thinking they are gods and think they could just manipulate anything, no matter how BIG it is, human egos are bigger
@@antiseize11 robots with ion engines can move comets. We are not gods, but a lot of tiny things can make one big thing change. This could be possible in the next few centuries.
@@ericgolightly8450 Might be possible
We should crash Mercury into Venus and call it Earth2.
That way if anything happens to the Earth, then everybody can just go to Earth2.
Thanks, I will try that! My Wife is a Witch. Pretty though.
Great video !
It is!
Thanks guys!!💜
The moon was always a staging point for Earth. Venus and Mars only need a landing pad. The moon will be a tourist colony for earth but a logistical and strategic hub of earth.
Can we Terraform the Moon? HECK NO! What are y'all thinking? Can we live there for brief periods of Time? Sure; but Terraforming it?? No way. If you're not breathing Atmosphere there, you HAVEN'T Terraformed it...
Exactly
You clearly dont know what terraforming is. Its taking a inhabitable planet and making it habitable. You create a atmosphere, you create a magnetosphere. Sure its far more likely we will terraform mars but saying something is impossible just because your thinking about current technology is stupid
We can, but it would take a lot of work to do and maintain. We could build a big balloon above it to keep the atmosphere in and the solar wind out. An electromagnet around the moon would also work.
@@ericgolightly8450 That's not Terraforming 😂
@@reverendrv151 it's global paraterraforming. Still works.
Edit: You are right, no atmosphere means is isn't terraformed. But he said how to give it an atmosphere.
Make Pluto a normal planet again.
No. It's much smaller than our moon. Has less than 1/5 of the mass.
@@humanbass Pluto should get a special exemption
@@arbyjack2552 if Pluto does so should Eris.
@@jamesmylife6578 Pluto is OG
@@arbyjack2552 technically Ceres is the og as it was discovered in 1801 originally thought to be a planet and the demoted to asteroid.
Edit: Then*
Look, we dig down, and put up the domes
why would we, there is no magnetosphere.
Exactly
Build an artificial one.
Maybe use sulpherhexaflouride generators ! it is a heavy inert gas and can possibly release co2 gas to creat an atmosphere !
Sulpherhexafluoride is a heavy, dense, inert gas that would gather around the surface of a planet, pushing all of the lighter criticial gasses like nitrogen and oxygen upwards rather than downwards asphyxiating surface-dwellers like humans and plants (at least the ones that aren't super tall). There's also no way of manufacturing it on the moon currently because as far as we know it lacks any naturally ocurring deposits of fluorine.
But it's also an extremely strong super greenhouse gas. It would end up creating a second venus. Maybe other gases like krypton or xenon would do the trick.
@@ericgolightly8450 i would just be happy to eventually get humans back to the moon in my lifetime !
@@scottymoondogjakubin4766 it'll probably be 2030's when we get proper colonies there.
@@ericgolightly8450 that would be my guess ! I can wait another decade ! 😆
Terra Forming any celestial body is illegal under the Outer Space Treaty.
So draft a new treaty. That thing's out of date anyway.
The first place to terraform is earth itself. As long as we can't even control things on earth we can forget about wanting to control other moons and planets.
What if an advanced race already terraformed Earth and let us use it. What if we screwed it up so badly that they will end their experiment shortly.
10:35 What first-person shooter game is that?
It's NOT science fiction. We are doing this with earth right now and the greenhouse effect. Antiterraforming, you name it xD
You cant do this on a planet that has no magnetic field or atmosphere
Curious what would happen to life on earth that use lunar cycles and light for breeding purposes
So bombard the moon before you import gases! Create the magnetic field before starting terraforming!
I keep reading, hearing about terraforming mars, the moon. how about just FIX our PLANET planet first!
Fix earth first, then go terraform everywhere you want.
Okay, l'm all ears. Oh, and a few other bits and pieces!! 😀
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After all these years, you really need a haircut so you don't trip.
@@davidmacphee3549
You know me well! ❤
@@mm-dw4rr You look good like a real Star!
Well, I was kidding you about ears not yours's but about 'Cute Ears'.?
I guess we all had them at some point like little dimple hands always reaching out.
I never really looked at mine because I preferred my nose wondering if it was so weird and distracting and stood out so much lust like Ringo Star.
You should check out this little kid with a happy Smile and the best Ears on the web.
'Ellenplaysbass' A real Brainy, Cutie!
Really long hair.
@@davidmacphee3549
Perfectly said.✔
Too bad terraforming won't even be necessary after we achieve singularity
10,000 years is a long time
Untill we stop barbecuing ourselves under the heat of war this will never happen. ...
Let's terraform the sun.
Now there’s an “out of the box” suggestion! Just think how low the heating bills will be for the residents, plus you get light 24 hours a day.
I’d be curious to see what sort of animals live there. We’ll have all sorts of new pets. The only problem will be dealing with the jealousy of the people we leave behind.
At leadt do it at night!
1,000,000 iq move
Terraforming would be beneficial but only if we did not mess up the Earth with it. Adding mass is not a silly idea but I imagine this on Mars. Mars is further away from us and if we can manage to add mass to the Mars without making unstable the orbit then we can make the gravity a bit closer to what we have now on Earth. On Moon I only can imagine some atmospheric alteration technique which stops the atoms from escaping or slowing down them by 90-95%. In this case we could maintain the created atmosphere for 100-500k years which is not a bad time and we can imagine the technology level will increase so it is still a good option.
Venus is our best option by far because we basically needs to speed up the rotation, add magnetic field and keep the carbon in solid form. These things can be done in the next 100-500 year which is not a bad pace I assume. We simply not live long enough to see these steps started but I hope I will respawn in the future too. Who knows.
i find peace knowing that every human is basically you & me respawned, just with a different memory and experiences. only thing that sux about death is all your memories vanishing
Not much mass will be added relative to the mass of the Moon.
The moon is to small to
Uphold an atmosphere. End of story
Move a comet in every 100-200 years.
I had to live on the moon for 11,000 years before I was permitted to come to Earth as a human. I guarantee you the moon cannot be terraformed
I believe we can terraform the moon . Sure would be cool to see a green and blue moon.
@John Grigg 😅
Don't waste the time and resources for what is foolishness and no purpose or ability to accomplish. It has its purpose just the way it is made. Stay out of where you do not belong.
@@nelsangelin9667 Exactly, agreed
@@nelsangelin9667 But it's cool though
Also what purpose does the moon being a rock serve? I'm confused.
Terraform the inside more protection in there
How about terrafoming jupiter or saturn , even better the sun.
Pray to the Gods. Easy as pie but I've never tried it.
Jupiter and Saturn have no solid surface, it is made of just gas
Could build an artificial surface above Jupiter and saturn, but I'm pretty sure we need the sun's light and heat to terraform the rest of the planets.
No. Gravity is way too low.
Crank it up!
Build a big balloon to keep the atmosphere in.
Why "must" we insure against the destruction of the earth?
To be honest, we should focus on our planet and make things better before we can focus on our moon, Mars or other planets in our solar system
Exactly
Except…
…someone needs to visit Alice Kramden.
We need to colonize the moon plus a new planet too not just the moon but planets like Mars.
Meh. Once humans finish off the earth, they'll have a new home to infest. Terraforming makes sense.
With current technology, it is not possible to terraform anything.
Sure not. Much too low escape speed.
An atmosphere is too short existing for objects below 8 km/sec escape speed.
Situation can be improved with a strong artificial magnetic field.
For this, it is usual to have big underground structures.
True. You would have to move a comet every 100-200 years.
Terraform the moon for proof of concept for Mars (although vastly different I know.)
I'm gonna go ahead and say "no"!
Not right now.
There is no reason to make the least attempt to do what is not at all necessary to expend resources for what is not designed for that wasted effort.
Agreed
It'd be cool though
@@ericgolightly8450 Yes, true. As a kid I filled my wall with paper clips of all the first space adventures from Sputnik to Gemini.
Yes, obviously. Just use the Genesis device.
Very Good! How come I didn't think of that.
Do they have one on the Orville?
first thing we need is gravity
Would we want to?
Not me
Me
The apollo mission weren't really the too harzous by earth 🌍 magnetic field
Mercury was an irony?
It's an iron-y
NO
-OOOOOOOooooooooyyes?
Should we terraform the Moon because we can? The quick answer is NO, because we don’t know how terraforming the Earth’s Moon will affect Earth… We know that as the Moon orbits the Earth it affects the tides. Terraforming affects the climate of the planet or moon, and I fear that a change in mass or climate of the Moon will affect the Earth’s Tides???
I don’t know how much mass we can add or remove from the Moon’s mass that will not affect the tides of the Earth. I hope NASA knows better. You do understand that the only reason the Earth has life is that the moon is hollo enough not to have the mass to do more than affect the tides. What we need to understand is how mining the Moon and removing the resources will affect the Earth. I have commented that what we mine from space should be used in space, along with what we mine from the Moon should be used on the Moon…
I have no fears that using the Moon’s regolith in a 3D Printer to build a roof for a crater won’t change the Mass of the Moon. The main structures within the air-tight capped crater should be made from regolith so that the stuff we bring from Earth shouldn’t affect the Mass of the Moon too much. The Solar Fields that I’ve commented about being made on the Moon to power the orbiting habitats should be okay if the Solar Panels are made from the Moon if we can’t perfect Dimond Batteries.
After watching, "Can We Terraform The Moon?"
Curiosity tells us a lot in the short video about the benefits of Terraforming the Moon, but nothing about the catastrophe of a 20-foot higher tide or even if the seas go flat. That might be a bit too Sci-Fi for some of you to imagine, but how would today’s world look to someone from 1000 years ago…
The question, ‘Can We Terraform The Moon?‘ is not the right question…but should we? The short answer is, “Not if it changes the Earth’s Tides…” My past comments have focused on the needs that need to be addressed before sending humans to deep space. The other information shared in the video covers a lot of what I have commented about, so don’t forget to watch…
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What are talking about?? Don't you know that every year 15.000.000 kg of meteor is fallen on earth? Accordingly a smaller amount fall on the moon...
Nothing much will change, these are very tiny differences in a planets mass.
No
It'd be cool though
no
😂😂😂.On November 10 Time 9:00a.m. 33% Of The Moon will impact By Astroid rain .lets talk about it if any one will live on the Moon. 33% Of The Sun will hits by Asteroid Rain on November 10
The answer is simple...you cannot terraform the moon.
Right now.
naa not viable. The panels/mirrors would be vulnerable to minor space debris/meteors. One critical hit and poof!! the atmosphere shield has gone.
Fix it with ai robots
no. no, we can't. i just saved u 13 minutes of life. don't waste them
We can't right now.
@@ericgolightly8450 We can't, ever. It's absolutely impossible to do it even if the entire world's efforts could be collectively focused on it. Absolutely. Impossible.
@@notsoancientpelican What that you have in your pocket? A smartphone has easy access to an entire world of information and communication, in your pocket. Millions of them have been made in the past few decades. New York Times said we'll have flying vehicles in a million years, someone did it a few years after. Now we have giant metal ones flying people over vast oceans for a few hundred, in less than a day. Millions of people on them per year. Never say never.
here we go trying to mess with things that should naturally be as they are smh ..
It's a rock. A dead, airless rock. I guess we shouldn't touch rocks then.
Stop all these fantasies and take care of what we have.... The Earth ❤️
Exactly
Before we go into space, let's clean up what we have.
I don't think this will work
I think subsurface is the better way vto go
This is just over the top speculation. Theory or not.
We can make cows to squirt beer from their nipples. Should we?
Hey, if we pull one of Spidermans rib, we can make Spider woman. Oh goodie, ready? ..no!
Talking pine trees are way better than talking grape juice. Let's teach it, Swahili. Stop!
We are not in a period of history where $ doesn't exist, and all is harmonious production. ( Children are evil without adult supervision, We're not turkeys, able to conceive just by ourselves, and Santa Klaus has never existed as an individual human with a madfactory of present production)
Like teens enjoying being evil unlike their preteen friends, there's no regards for the challenges their heckling trespassing and hacking do to older and senior people. People that made it so the li'l bus- tards,.. have for conveniences they got
And that's what this vid is.
Adults still entertaining teen thinking in current history.
Agreed
What do those have to do with terraforming the Moon? I'm not seeing any speculation, just simple science. And we're not saying we WILL do this, this is just how we could.
Not a good idea. Someone/Something might decide to lunaform the Earth in response.🙄
no magnetic field so a atmosphere wont stay, so no it cant be done
Build an artificial one.