What Life In A Mars Colony Will Be Like

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[srstacy]

"Imagine sending a message to a friend, then waiting hours, sometimes days for a response." Don't have to imagine, that was life before the internet.

[DanH-uf]

A Mars colony would be mostly underground to save energy and protect the inhabitants.

[Part__Wannabe]

after watching this video I realized that life on Mars will be horrendous

[UltimateDan]

“Communications would be difficult… imagine sending a message to a friend and having to wait hours, sometimes days, for a response.”
Sounds about normal anyways. Everyone always pretends like they’re busy to respond quickly, anyways.

[nicholashylton]

_"...settlers will not have all of Earth's luxuries."_ Now THAT is an understatement! They'll be on a planet is always trying to kill them. The harshest place on Earth is a paradise in comparison to any random spot on Mars.

[thomaselder]

Okay fine, I'll watch The Expanse again

[neglectedloves]

Watching this makes one thing clear: protecting our EARTH is simply crucial...

Great video and thanks for changing the intro, it's way more grown up 🙌🏻

[cornpowa]

The casual mention of senicide really caught me by surprise.

[metatechnocrat]

Ah yes the Martian "suicide booths" for the oldsters option, or perhaps a Martian version of "Carousel" when the crystal in their palm turns red.

[pangalactictuber]

There will be a lot more humanoid robots than this video implies. They will get there first, do the site prep, establish life-support and so on.

[DataSmithy]

You skipped over a couple of basic assumptions, that we really don't know yet.

1) can humans actually live in Mars gravity without significant side effects.

2) can humans actually carry a viable pregnancy and give birth to healthy humans in Mars gravity.

You sort of answer some of these questions towards the end of your video talking about the evolution of the human species on mars. But if we can't even live and propagate on Mars to start with, then an evolution can't happen.

[richardandersonmolinabetan]

Ice-Home? Bro that's just an igloo on Mars! 🤣

[UltimateDan]

I think life on mars will be more like living underground. The surface is too inhospitable with the temperature, weather, and solar radiation.

[maisumcriticonainternet]

In other words, "surviving mars" and "The Expanse" will happen for real, but probably without the alien elements. I don't mind, I love that game and that show. I wish I could live long enough to see it though.

[luckystriker]

4:41 "Imagine waiting hours even days for a response". Boomers chocking in unison, even Gen-X laughing out loud. This script feels like it was written by AI

[i-love-space]

I worry about the perchlorate in the Martian soil. And even without the perchlorate, Mars soil has no biome that we take for granted on Earth for agriculture.
The Jamestown Colony in Virginia had a 90+ % fatality rate for the first few decades. I fear that the beginning of a Mars colony may be similar. When you consider the precarious nature of survival on Mars, it dwarfs anywhere on Earth, even Antarctica. Antarctica or the top of Everest are a dream of habitability compared to Mars. On Mars, you will always be one malfunction away from death.
The radiation problem is extreme as well. The colonists will be pummeled by hard radiation as soon as they leave the environs of Earth within the magnetosphere, and when galactic cosmic rays strike Stainless steel, they create cascades of secondary particle radiation.
SpaceX will not have the resources to solve all these problems alone. I think there are going to need to be decades of development of support equipment by NASA and MANY other countries and corporations in order to make a Mars colony possible. I am glad we are going to the Moon first. It has the same radiation problem and is equally difficult to survive on. And if we want a terraformed atmosphere on Mars to persist, we MUST create an artificial magnetic shield for the planet. Otherwise the Solar wind will blow it away, along with any Martian resources that we used to thicken the atmosphere. So if we create a thick atmosphere on Mars, and it is blown away by the Sun, we won't have any more resources to try again.
And don't get me started on the stupidity of using rare and valuable survival water to convert to Rocket Fuel and spew into space, never to be recovered.

[kolakowj]

Colonizing the Antarctic is orders of magnitude easier.

[chamamemestre]

Those two would definitely boost my morale 06:39 Also, terraforming Mars is just plain science fiction... That's now how it works. Unless you can just jumpstart a planet's core, create tectonic plates action and get a magnetic field started, etc. Its ludicrous.

[PeterHamiltonz]

Someone's been watching The Expanse. 😁

Not because that's where you got the ideas, but simply cause I know you have. 😉

[rickace]

Mars will just be a stepping stone. We need to think about colonizing actual habitual planets in our galaxy.