One day we will journey to the Red Planet and perhaps settle there, but what great civilizations and cities will emerge on the red sands?
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The Cities of Mars
Episode 464; September 12, 2024
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Graphics:
Bryan Versteeg
Katie Byrne
Ken York YD Visual
Sergio Botero
Tristan3D
Udo Schroeter
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Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
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Where are the like-dislikes up-down for this episode?
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UGH I tried C.S. Lewis's Sci-Fi series. I couldn't take it. Can't stand the way he writes. At the time I was working my way through Asimov's Foundation series. All the way from I, Robot, through the Empire series, the core foundation series and the sequels and prequels. Yeah I ate the whole enchilada. I tried Lewis and couldn't even get through That Hideous Strength.
Alright, you sold me that Martian city with your presentation. When can I move there? 😃
i know not all stock videos can match the subject matter, but as someone from the St. Augustine area, I would have liked to have seen images of the old Spanish fort that is there, or the bridge of lions. They are two of the most well known landmarks of the city…. aside from the Fountain of Youth… which tastes like sulfur.
we need venus's atmosphere on mars and more mass/gravity for both to terraform them and have them properly retain their atmospheres.
Water on Mars may end up being too precious to convert into rocket propellants…. 🙂
Personally, I think Mars will get busy once we master propellant-less propulsion, which is hopefully sooner than we'd think.
The rocket equation is merciless, as are cosmic rays. Rapid spaceflight for crewed missions is preferable, electric propellant-less spaceflight for efficient missions will be preferable.
It's hard to picture too many pioneers looking to set up a Mars homestead, if they need to burn ungodly amounts of expensive propellant for every ton of luggage they want to take.
Homesteading takes a LOT of equipment and supplies. Mining ice on Mars will take even more, plus all those spare cutting edges, drills, pump liners, pipes etc – so, so much heavy equipment.
I suspect we'll end up having top-notch propulsion and exporting what we need from earth and won't end up doing ISRU mining for propellant, the astronauts time is too valuable to waste on drilling ice for weeks.
I think Mars ice will be mined by homesteaders for water and oxygen eventually.
Major glitch: humans evolved for 9.8 m/s gravity. Mars has 1/3 of that & so cannot accommodate healthy human existence. Case closed.
I always wondered how you'd design large vehicles for non-oxygenated worlds in the near future. Do you use ICE vehicles and carry oxygen? Huge batteries? Try to get away with cabled or beamed power where you can?
I have never watched Blade Runner. To this day, I have no idea how I have managed this avoidance, so to say. It makes no sense to me. Based upon my interests, Blade Runner seems like a movie I would find entertaining.
Yep. That's the way I would do it.
For in-city traffic in not to strongly segmented cities, kick bikes and kick scooters may come in handy. Easy to make (somewhat easier than bicycles), not requiring much in terms of resources, and at least the bike version can actually carry some loads.
If we send settlers to we wont just fix that disapointing lack of marsian life, but might eveu get that Invasion from the Red Planet we hav been waiting for.
i wonder how long it would take that the interplanetary settlers see the migrants from earth or somewhere else as threat to their pets, or as useless breathers or water wasters…
So in Ohio you jump down from City to Village… What happened to Towns?
I like the idea of colonising Mars, but it just feels a bit more like a side goal given all the other great things space has to offer us.
Must set up a research center at Syria Planum for the development of biological radio… maybe I'll name it… PsyCorps.
at 19:45 ", , , it helps to think of < a rocket > as a giant flamethrower attached to a warehouse full of explosives that you're trying to softly crash onto the ground."
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Very America centric episode as usual but great nonetheless.
However I imagine IF there were ever be human settlements, first will have Mandarin Chinese as it's official language, Second will be Russo-Indian-Iranian. Then the first with Germanic languages as official first languages. While all will be at least partially multi cultural and multi lingual.
But why would we settle the surface? Wouldn't machines be enough? Maybe some overseers and engineers and mechanics down in really small central settlements in half a year intervals like Antarctic researchers. Rest are on orbit. And eventually the same type of space elevators you have described.
Leo orbital rings, moon bases, space stations, mars cities, mars space stations, asteroid mining….so much can happen I'm so mesmerized by the future, but I think all of the above will take at least 300 to 400 years
As for growning food, it's a major hurdle due to how toxic the soil is, it's loaded with perchlorates.
18:25 Gallifrey isn't Mars.
I thought this was a video game until I clicked on it lol
There's no reason to go to Mars. It's just not that interesting or rewarding. I'd concentrate on Europa.
I heard some prolific people say it'd be easier to have a permanent presence on the moon than on mars because of the distance, gravity and lack of atmosphere
Would carbon capture be something that would be beneficial to supplement a settlement on Mars?
I hope and assume a solution will be found for the perchlorates that have been detected in Martian soil, which are highly toxic to humans. In real life, Matt Damon would have died within a couple of months of growing potatoes in perchlorate-suffused Martian soil.