Will We Survive Mars? - Glad You Asked S1

NASA says the first humans will set foot on Mars in the mid-2030’s. It will be the most dangerous mission any human has ever taken. Glad You Asked host Cleo Abram wants to know: What comes after that? Not how do we get there, but how will we survive once we do?

Note: There are several Fahrenheit measurements in this piece.
The metric conversions are:
At 7:53: 212 degrees Fahrenheit = 100 degrees Celsius
At 8:04: 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit = 37 degrees Celsius
At 8:45: -81 degrees Fahrenheit = -62.8 degrees Celsius

Key sources:

0:00 Intro
1:02 Life On Mars
4:20 Surviving The Planet
6:57 The Deadly Red
10:27 Terraforming
13:43 Surviving The People
19:01 NASA’s Crisis Checklist

[Vox]

Hello! We saw some confusion about a couple things in the comments here, and just wanted to address them:



Thanks for watching, and see you next Tuesday for why we cry!

[connorwalker]

I really think it would be useful, to the rest of the world outside the US, to give metric measurements just on screen alongside imperial just so the rest of us can get a better understanding of whats being said.

[guicane]

water boils at 212 fahrenheit.... we're talking about going to mars and they are using fahrenheit

[eksiarvamus]

2019: Will We Survive Mars?
2020: Will We Survive Earth?

[Noel]

Imagine we successfully terraform mars. Human's then outgrow that planet and continue terraforming other planets they come across. We'll literally be the super villains in a galactic movie

[CleoAbram]

Hi everyone! I'm Cleo, one of the hosts of Glad You Asked. Thanks for watching! I loved learning about how microbes could help us detox resources on Mars, but I'm curious what questions you have! I'll be around in the comments to chat and answer questions all day today.

[ahmadizwanizwan]

"We know how to warm up planets, we're doing it on Earth."

[harrytrumanbrighto]

Never mind Mars. I'm just trying to survive earth.

[sharaignes]

*"It's really hard to describe to somebody what it is like to live in an isolated environment"*

Well, we all do now.

[ashharfaroqui]

2019- Will we survive Mars?
3019- Will Mars survive us?

[Pseudynom]

Humans: "How to survive on Mars?"
Mars: "How to survive humans?"

[oliverwilson]

9:55 "They would be functional on the surface for some period of time"

I like his engineer's way of saying that yeah they would not last very long at all

[amo_res]

“-84°F” ok hold up. Let me convert that in google for a sec.

Vox. There’s also people who watch your videos here in Canada. Atleast add Celcius too

[cjz]

I mean, warming up planets is what we do best.

[gauravmalltarlok]

"The average temperature on Mars is *-81 Fahrenheit*
"Oh jeez"


Yeah, jeez, I can't understand how much it is either.

[ptomicek]

Farenheit everywhere, I understand you have a big US viewer base, but when talking about science please use Celsius, like all scientists and rest of the world use.

[momenmuhannedhassan]

Absolutely phenomenal work! Hats off to Cleo and her team, and hats off to you, the viewer, if you got through the whole video. Long form content always wins!

[ipreferwinter]

I really really love VOX videos, I only want to give a friendly hint: could you put subtitles in your videos with the conversion of customary units in metric decimal system? I know you are a channel from the USA, and It's ok if you want to use Fahreneit, but in Europe ( and the rest of the world) we really can't understand them and It's really annoying to have to stop the video all the time and convert the temperature to Celsius, only to figure out what are you saying .. thanks :)

[askani]

Celsius, guys. Celsius. The internet isn't only watched by Americans, you know. We have no idea what those numbers mean.

[bbbbb]

Can you put Celsius conversions in the animations? You don't have to stick to metric system cause you're american but seeing the conversions would be helpful for international audiences. *Just a suggestion! :)