Mars is Deadly. Can We Really Live There? (Part 3)

Lots of people want to #OccupyMars, but is that realistic or is a life on Mars still science fiction?

🌌LEAVING EARTH SERIES 🌌
Part 1: 🌍 We have to leave Earth
Part 2: 🚀 Rockets are boring.
Part 3: 👽 Mars is Deadly.
Part 4: 🌔 Lunar living?
Part 5: 🛰 To the stars.

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The day we step foot on Mars will be one of the most gloriously exciting days in all of human history. Not only will it be the first human foot on another planet, it will be our first step into a new and complicated future. Should Mars be urbanized? Should we farm? Or should we turn the entire planet into a #science park, like Antarctica? I called Ariel Waldman and Pascal Lee to find out their take, and it’s not looking good for the Escape to Mars-nerds out there.

Can we #LiveOnMars? Can we build a #LunarColony? Should we leave this solar system entirely? What would we need to visit another star? Can humans survive out there in the emptiness of space? I answer all these questions and more in my new science and technology series all about #leavingearth! New episodes every other day all week!

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📚📚📚 SOURCES
The Mars Institute
The Mars Institute is an international, non-governmental, non-profit research organization dedicated to advancing the scientific study, exploration, and public understanding of Mars. Headquartered at NASA Ames Research Center (USA), with offices in Toronto (Canada) and Stavanger (Norway).

Cosmic Rays (they bad!)
Cosmic ray, a high-speed particle—either an atomic nucleus or an electron—that travels through space. Most of these particles come from sources within the Milky Way Galaxy and are known as galactic cosmic rays (GCRs).

How Bad is the Radiation on Mars?
Human exploration of Mars has been ramping up in the past few decades. In addition to the eight active missions on or around the Red Planet, seven more robotic landers, rovers and orbiters are scheduled to be deployed there by the end of the decade. And by the 2030s and after, several space agencies are planning to mount crewed missions to the surface as well.

Extremely powerful cosmic rays are raining down on us. No one knows where they come from.
You may think the greatest, most perplexing mysteries of the universe exist way out there, at the edge of a black hole, or inside an exploding star. Nope.

Love you, #nerdfam! Stay #curious!

[Makegooodchoices]

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[amorscientiae]

1st comment
Wow ! Having such supportive and highly smart friends really is what makes your video a standout in all the videos i've watched today.

I also think that as it is very important to make our advancement in space explorations so is we uncovering more truth about Earth and other closer heavenly bodies(e.g. moon) while taking into consideration preservation and betterment of human life.

[thomasfholland]

So sad that many people would rather spend money on the military and not on NASA missions.

[fugithegreat]

I have never understood why people would seriously consider Mars a place to save us from the destruction of Earth, because as bad as Earth might get, Mars would not be any better. To go there and explore, for sure! Let's do it!

[willCollett]

WOW!!! I have always like your presentations and common sense and I was disappointed when there was no more of you over at seeker, they don't present things the way you do. I know you haven't been there for a while, but glad to get some better than decent info again - I know, go and support you on PATREON . . . someday. 😊🙏🏻👍🏻

[sleepyancient]

Mars would be a cool place to try terraforming; lots of things to try in that regard. One thing I'm curious about: processing the rust into iron and oxygen on a scale that could create/restore the atmosphere and give a lot of extra material benefits. After a thousand years we would likely have a decent jumping off point with several colonies. Getting that experience could be key to going to other planets... well beyond our lifetime, but so is thousands of people leaving Earth for a new residence for any meaningful period (10 years or more).

An army of fancy Roombas, basically.

[Levian-Durai]

Before watching, just wanted to point out that your links to this video, in the description of all the videos in this series link to Part 4 - Lunar living.

[bluebaconjake]

The thumbnail is literally my current ipad wallpaper. Did you get it from unsplash? Hahaha

[diegonei]

Weel we knew Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids... We've known that since 1972... heh

[Jonnycrs]

If we have to work together as a Planet and not as individual countries, to get to Mars?
Does that mean Friendship was the answer all along?

[thedamnedatheist]

I wouldn't really want to live on the other planets or moons when we could build O'neill cylinders orbiting them. Earth gravity & a shirtsleeve environment anywhere in the system. And if you build them as Isaac Arthur suggests, inside asteroids, they're protected against cosmic rays & collisions.

[Systox]

Now i want to know what terraforming can do
Can the atmosphere be thickened, how, with what and how long would it take with what methods

Cody’sLab suggested something else than nitrogen as a filler gas

[Mallory-Malkovich]

NASA needs their budget increased? Funny, I was just thinking about something we could defund that would free up billions of dollars!

[WasatchWind]

I appreciate the healthy skepticism about landing on Mars -
however, I found it to be a glaring omission that SpaceX was not mentioned.

In your video, you, and your consultants gave a Mars landing a timeline of decades from now. SpaceX, however, could get there as early as 2026 (emphasis on could).

There are many different perspectives on human exploration, and it seemed a bit like you put forward the view of "it is too dangerous lets wait a while and try later."

I think this is valid, but I find great merit in SpaceX's view: "we don't know how to do it, or what challenges we'll face, but let's try and see if we can do it."

I like your videos, and think that they have good production quality - however, at least with these space videos, I'd appreciate a little bit more of a look at alternate viewpoints.

[Zeroneii]

2:24 how about Elon musk

hes already planning on in 2022 or 2024, I forgot which one

[Systox]

Cody’sLab builds a "Mars Base"

[theinvisiblegaijin]

how come no one mentioned trace's new planet tatts?

[ditroia]

Have you read any of the stuff by Robert Zubrin?

[DonCDXX]

Mars is over rated. The technology we need to live there safely is the same technology we'll need to live in open space. If we're going to colonize off world, there's no reason to just move over to the next giant dusty rock ball. We should live in a space habitat in orbit and mine those dusty rock balls for the material to make more space habitats.

[dazuk]

Space Shuttle Astronaut and spacex adviser Garrett Reisman states "astronauts used to lose 1% bone and muscle mass loss per month spent in orbit, but with increased understanding and hydraulic resistance training Astroughts now come back from a typical 6 month stint on the ISS with no bone or muscle loss whatsoever"...so Ariel is not correct in the her assessment. The main issues are related to hearing, vision and blood pressure. But Mars has only 1% Earth pressure, so the implications are different. Mars has 38% Earth gravity also. The problems with Astronauts walking on Mars will not be as Aerial described....peace to ya.