Departure to Mars - Conquest of a Planet | SPACETIME - SCIENCE SHOW

SPACETIME - SCIENCE SHOW: August the 2nd, 2048. A space craft has just reached Mars. The crew has landed on the Red Planet: One giant leap for mankind. Seventy-nine years after the first moon landing man has set foot on another planet. This is a fictional scenario. But men on Mars will become a reality. We have known ever since the 1960s what it looks like on Mars. Dozens of probes have visited the Red Planet and sent back photographs and data. There have been reports of storms and barren deserts. In the end we are left with more questions than answers - especially the burning question of life, past or present, on our neighbour planet.
Only a manned mission to Mars will solve the riddle once and for all, when scientists and engineers research the Red Planet on the spot.

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[ihenagwamsamogidi]

Any mission that is a one way trip to anywhere is not only ridiculous.... It is crazy!!!

[gautam.kanna]

The more we study Mars.. The more we realise the value of earth

[BrassMtn]

And now we have a new rover on Mars!! Can’t wait to see it’s discoveries!

[frankbray]

So much pie-in-the-sky optimism here from these scientists etc. I'm 56 and don't expect to see a manned Mars landing in my lifetime, even if I live well into my '80s.

[davidsapir]

Under such living conditions in such a solitary one way trip, no screening process would change the inevitable. The whole crew would eventually spiral into madness and go full Event Horizon, even if they never had any mechanical failures of any kind, and even if they never lost a single plant. Current technology offers such a miserable quality of life for the crew that such a mission isn't psychologically bearable.

[JonnoPlays]

Earth Mentality: can't wait to get to Mars!

Mars Mentality: wish I never got on that rocket!

[ahmednawab]

Feeling like free loader on our planet 🌎 after being aware how difficult and hard to earn another planet for mankind.

[duncanbedford]

Mars is deadly for many reasons none of which can be rectified ❤

[gabrielcroft]

I love to look at the sky at night and wonder how it looks like, is there any planets with life ? Is Mars habitable? I always dreamt of flying, I really really wanted to get there, and I hope some day our sons and daughters will be able to get there and to explore the universe by themselves and will be able to terraform Mars into earth like and settle there permanently.

[elwandahearns]

18:14 - “Only the spinach is struggling a bit.” 😂
Comm’on spinach! 💪🏻😄

[erlic]

They can send me, I can care less about coming back to earth. I am fascinated with space and always have been since I was very very young. I am 52 years old now and if I hade the chance to go, I would in a second.

[quacksackerthegreatstarfir]

I so want to live long enough to see someone set foot on Mars....

[CybcaGaming]

After watching so many videos about SpaceX and Starship. I feel like watching these video from 2005. so out dated.

[azazelone]

I think submariners would be perfect recruiting material for this.

[brandinsider]

we certainly have much more pressing problems on earth than dealing with the journey to mars. but it is interesting, but I wonder whether we will master the challenges in the next 10 years.

[bro]

Lets imagine we prepared everything perfectly.. but one thing we cannot overcome...gravity! How can human body adopt to 4-6x lover gravity?

[fcgHenden]

49:43 "It certainly won't be a German who sets foot on Mars first."
Certainly not with THAT attitude. 😆

[terrondt]

The german scientist explaining this is doing a great job detailing the feasibility of what is needed to
Travel and live on mars in lamen’s terms

[phillipja]

Terraforming is a basic simple task, and a walk in the park ! Yes, it is absolutely essential that Mars should be terraformed until it is 100% complete and identical to earth(Mars is only 30% complete). We can easily do this by capturing asteroids from the asteroid belt and comets, and then redirect them to mars. Doing this will enlarge Mars molten iron core and also increase the water in its oceans to 80% until the planet geology is identical to earths.

[jaimes]

i like how he say's at the end how the risk to his life must not exceed 10%, the guys that first orbited the moon where given a 50/50 chance of coming home. 🙄