Huge Lake on Mars // Fate of Milkdromeda // Hope for VIPER Rover

Vast amounts of water found on Mars, but there’s a catch, Milky Way and Andromeda might not merge after all, a planet found before it gets destroyed, and an easier way to terraform Mars.

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00:00 Intro
00:16 Water found on Mars
02:55 Huge lake on Mars
04:20 Terraforming Mars
08:05 VIPER might be saved
09:38 Milkdromeda might not be happening
10:53 Vote results
11:28 Planet on the verge of destruction
13:09 New way of detecting supermassive black holes
14:21 Vera Rubin's secondary mirror
15:40 More space news
16:11 Livestreams and Q&A

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[gemstone]

the reason we only made it to 12km on earth is because the tools ended up melting so deep in the ground, since mars has a cooler core it might be possible to dig deeper, plus the earth borehole was made almost 30 years ago so im sure we could do better

[rwarren]

Gather every single chia pet ever made would be a nice start to make those greenhouse effects. They can grow under any conditions. Great episode by the way.

[oatlord]

Future late night ad: "Do you have lung cancer from the Martian terraforming nano particles? Call my law firm now."

[JusNoBS]

This sounds like the most important Space bites of the year!!

[LezArtistiG]

4:47 I always thought the problems with terraforming Mars is the low gravity. The planet won't hold onto an atmosphere

[javaman]

That's sad about Milkdromeda. I was looking forward to it.

[raytribble]

Being a retired open hole wireline engineer, it would be so tempting in the future to air/co2 without water can cool the drill bit… drill 4000 meters which is doable, then conduct induction density logs to see what the soil contains… then there all the borehole cuttings that can also be analyzed… someday

[artdonovandesign]

A *GREAT* episode.

Thank you, Fraser 😃

[treefarm]

The quite possible terraforming of Mars sounded terrific! The subterranean water there was the second best story.

[just_kos]

I saw something within this week stating that the Milky Way and Andromeda have already started colliding, something about the galactic halos or something.

I thought we could find lava tubes on Mars and the Moon, seal them off with airlocks or some type of pressure seal, and Bob's your uncle.

[Thegreat]

So total recall wasn't wrong? Well done Arnie 👏

[silverspork]

Very interesting to me, especially as a hydrogeologist. Love your content!

[joemcintyre]

I heard somebody say that the outskirts of Andromeda and our Milky Way are touching each other already.

[theCodyReeder]

At least drilling 12 km deep on mars would be a lot easier than on earth due to lower gravity and thermal gradiant.
Does kinda through a wrench into my "blast a giant hole into mars" idea because the bottom would fill up with water.

[TheTamriel]

Any idea how complex and massive the drilling rig for 12km depth on Mars would be? Who should fund this crazy adventure?
And I see the space base on the surface, again - there is no chance of survival on the surface due to radiation peaks and micrometeorites.

[HolographNamedJames]

As always, great video!!! Thanks for all your hard work.

[GwydionFrost]

Solar shield for Mars can also be a power station, communication relay, deep space telescope, etc.

Each of these projects would have astronomical price tags, and even combined as one would have an astronomical price tag, but far far less than each financed individually. Let's face it, each project makes the bigger project (Mars) easier (except the deep space telescope-- that's just looking past JWST).

[dropshot]

Wow this episode is full of subjects that I have an idea about. Regarding the possibility that the Milky Way and Andromeda might miss each other instead of colliding in ca 4.5 billion years. In that case the probable near miss of the two would probably result in extensive gravitational interactions especially since I seem to remember that the outer edges of both galaxies are already experiencing gravitational interactions. This could cause each galaxy to still experience a starburst period, similar to, if possibly less intense, than when they would have collided. It would also probably result in disturbing the shape of both galaxies, possibly resulting in both of them losing their spiral shape and turning into elliptical galaxies. I also think it would be likely that given that Andromeda has more mass, the Milky Way would lose a substantial part of its stars to Andromeda.
Lots of scenarios for astronomers to check with simulations and research. So cool.

[SqArno]

I think drilling on Mars would be easier than on Earth. Our crust is so hot that, along with our higher gravity, just a few km down the rock starts to experience enough heat and pressure that the rock starts to exhibit plasticity. In some of the deepest mines in the world for example spaces deep down tend towards filling up over time. For deep drilling, it's an immense issue, as you have to continually keep the channel open. The heat, in and of itself is also a problem if people are involved. So yeah... You'd be able to drill/mine a lot deeper on Mars with relative ease. And seriously deep on the Moon.

[isonlynameleft]

I never considered the gravity of the situation 🤭