The Real Problem with Living on Mars

Colonizing Mars has been a hot topic, especially for billionaire, Elon Musk, but the reality of colonizing Mars is more of a nightmare than a fantasy. Check out today's new epic video that takes you to the Red Planet and reveals why it'll be nearly impossible to even land on Mars, let alone colonize it!

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[jakurdadov]

Anyone wanting to terraform Mars should start with terraforming Earth.
You already have a huge head start:
1. You're here.
2. You have gravity.
3. You have liquid water.
4. You have oxygen.

[afarro]

This just makes you appreciate Earth even more

[gerarpope]

The more videos I watch of habitation and possible life beyond planet earth, the more I began to think and accept the fact that it is truly by design that we were made to live on earth, multiply, and live in peace. The more we explore beyond, the more complicated things get.

[BradSchmor]

I am 48 years old. I remember in the 1980s there was optimism that a crewed mission to Mars would happen by 2000, and we generally believed the USSR would achieve it first. Now, with a projected 30-45 years left in my life (years 2052-2067), I have serious doubts that this will happen in my lifetime. I might live long enough to see a crewed orbit and return, but I doubt I will live to see a landing and return.

[bigware]

So when do we get a video on the lore behind the Infographics show? I think that would be cool.

[minaryeon]

Way too many problems to see it happen in this life time. If people can't even live on earth peacefully and safely how would they survive mars.

[DrewpyAnimations]

My personal opinion is that we should start with the Moon and maybe even establish a base there before we even consider Mars.

[cherubinth]

Flying to Mars is like wanting to fly over the Atlantic when the planes managed to fly a few meters.

[agentp]

I had an idea where a hydroponics garden could grow bamboo and the bamboo could be converted into a cellulose based media for 3D printing onboard the aircraft. 3D printing objects is a solution for many emergent needs for repair parts or needing newly made items. The bamboo creates oxygen and produces media for 3D printing. A crude type of replicator from star trek.

[jacobslaughter]

You missed the facts that Mars lacks the mass to have a molten core to generate a magnetic field. Without an magnetic field it cannot hold an atmosphere similar to Earth's. So even if we could get the resources necessary to terraform Mars's atmosphere it would be stripped away due to the solar winds.

[alanbailey]

I can't think of any place that I would hate more than being stuck on Mars.

[slickchick]

My concern would be the physiology/psychology issues of being permanently encapsulated to live, plus adjusting to red skies and rock landscape. And how to keep occupied? Who would really even be interested in staying on Mars? Medical care? Length of day is different...we're adapted to earth by structure. Hospitals? Sleep disorders from different day/season length?

[Crashed]

Without even starting to watch the video.
1-No food and water and air
2-No radiation protection from space
3- minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit or-60c
Living in the Antarctic would be easier and nobody lives there permanently.

[cmilkau]

Going to Mars when it's closest is also about the hardest. Most missions take the longest route you can take, because it uses the least fuel and you know, the rocket equation. Many missions take even longer routes (although this ceertainly wouldn't be done for human missions), exploiting flybys at other planets and Earth itself to get pushed just into the right orbit with minimal fuel.

[lonniedobbins]

I'm very glad someone with logic has looked at this.
I was tired debating the possibility of people going to Mars with people opposed to science.

[MichaelThomas-tejd]

An issue that’s overlooked here is that lower gravity carries fitness costs : 120 days in orbit was recently shown to reduce red blood cells by about 50%… then we have the issue of surface irradiation, lack of any magnetosphere to ward off most of the effects of solar events or radiation. It’s not somewhere people will be able to live in any foreseeable future.
If we don’t stabilise the biosphere soon this is all irrelevant, so if we don’t manage to prevent further mass extinction then this isn’t going to save us at all.

[alancrawford]

It almost seems like it would just be easier to take care of this planet than find another one.

[lunarSoul]

The video basically boils down to the old saying "measure twice cut once" lots of logistics to solve and variables to consider before trying to colonize. Which I agree with. It's a shame it might not be in my lifetime but better to do it right.

[bxdanny]

The first "colonists" going to Mars will go with the understanding that they will NOT be returning. They will build an enclosed environment in which they will be able to survive, or they will die trying to. That's the only plan I've heard for a human mission to Mars.

[sugartbube]

that last part is spot on. People don't understand that human must expand past earth