So humans are going to Mars. And relatively soon. But what happens when we get there? What type of personalities should we send?
Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals
Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos
Unexplored (2022)
Who owns Mars? What happens when we meet aliens? Should we mine the Moon? Dr Josie Peters and leading experts explore the boundaries of our knowledge and the latest scientific discoveries as they answer curious questions.
This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback–contact-details.aspx
source
SpaceX is never going to Mars in 2026. No way, no how.
I would like to see all of Earth’s billionaires take the first tour to Mars.
Amber hard will be the SpaceX first female experiment on mars. 😜
Mars "had" volcanoes. Now it's core is completely cooled – zero tectonic activity. I'm curious about how they've overcome the 50x levels of radiation exposure and toxic soil.
Space X as soon as 2026? Oh please don't kid yourselves.
The thing always forgotten to mention is that no matter how much we mess up earth with nuclear wars, radiation and pollution, the environment stays way way less hostile then the Moon, Mars a space station or any other place in our reachable solar system. It is not popular to tell as it sounds so romantic to leave earth to find a better life but each and every craft or base that is imagined, designed or build, would be safer for humans to live in when it remains here on earth. It is virtually impossible to mess up earth so much that it becomes safer at another place in space. Sorry for messing up your "going to space" dreams. I still love these technical challenges. They are just not the solution for humans the coming million years.
1:22 "maintain those impeccable pecs" missed opportunity 🤧
Humans are not going to Mars…we can't survive on it..we still got to revisit the moon first
Dr Josie is such a great host. Her facial impression and passion for these videos just draw 110% of the attention – it also makes topics exciting whole presentation feel so alive and vivid
im going there tommorow on my 40yr old Yamaha moped! 🐱👍🏿
« Human are going to Mars. Lots of them »
I don't think so…
And we have much more urgent (and intelligent) things to do on this earth.
To paraphrase Clémenceau, science Is too Important to be left to nerdy, childish scientists/entrepreneurs…
With the Dwayne Johnson example, he would simply have to lift 3 times as much weight on Mars as on earth, to achieve the same effect, right? Therefore, could you not wear a suit weighing several hundred pounds to counteract the lower gravity, or is that a complete misunderstanding of how gravity functions?
Man, the audio of these videos is so low.
Stopped watching at "SpaceX on Mars in 2026".
To be honest space is kinda boring on a human lifetime scale. Most is dust and rocks. Maybe the seas under the ice on europe are interesting. But so far space travel is kinda stupid too do for a life forms made off flesh and bones.
While Mars is an obvious destination for scientific research I would argue that it is hardly useful for anything else. We do not see people lining up to live in Antarctica, even though it is far more habitable than Mars. So, unless we find very valuable resources worth extracting and transporting, IMHO human presence on Mars will most likely be limited to research and exploration centres. From an economic perspective the Moon is a much juicier target: it's near, has water ice, helium -3, rare earth elements – and its low gravity means low extraction costs. Why bother with Mars?
"Can We"? Well of course. It's just an effort/reward proposition. For a few scientists, I'd say it's worth it. For a colony? I'm less convinced.
Its possible some people will be lost to Mars but am sure human body belongs to earth and only earth is the mother of our bodies so you can send some idiots
Who will be die there sorry you been used for experiments not for reality science
Piece of cake.
I gave it to you in writing.
I’m already planning to buy land property in mars…. 🤣
I think the worst problem living on Mars won't be the environment. It will be other people. Just like here on Earth. As the colonization scales up it's bound to turn into conflicts sooner or later. What are you going to do? Call the police from Earth to come help you solve disputes? Many people are going to die until they get the situation under control. It'll be like the wild west in the beginning for sure. Technology may have advanced but at the end of the day we're still primitive humans and the best way we solve problems is by force.
They can’t even fix the roads where I live, so not getting my hopes up.
With no magnetosphere, it's ALL about radiation. The only possibility seems to live in underground lava tubes. A nightmare. And no tech exists to build a feasible small magnetosphere to protect "colonists". Before the radiation problem isn't solved, it is an impossible dream or definite short one-way ticket.
I wounder how much of our dwindling oxygen this is gonna burn up. Consume, consume, consume.
Do we have enough time?
Audio levels were low on this clip.
Human body is so specifically adapted to earth environment, which is major obstacles to be a multiplanetary species, somehow if they can manage to transfer human conciousness into a mechanical body or at the least can remotely control a mechanical body then it is a game changer, we can explore almost any planets/moons in the solar system.
Of course we can, easily. Elon has personally drawn the plans for whole megacities on Mars by next year. Keep up with the times BBC Earth Lab. There is a shedload of CGI videos showing how it can be done today. It's not that difficult, it just works.
…..mmmm……. Ark B ? Politicians, Hairdressers, everyone from PR and HR …..we’ve got a little list, who never would be missed 😎 (you will be showing your age if you get this ) 🤓
Beautiful mars
Great video!
Quito-Ecuador
2022
A 6 month voyage to Mars and a 6 month return would damage human bodies, not only by radiation, but by lack of gravity. On top of that, a 2 year stay on Mars is manditory while waiting for the earth to return to its close bypass. That means 4 years of oxygen and food need to be brought along. Interplanetary travel is impossible. It's only Star Trek imagination.
No you can't . Theres no Magnetosphere !
The simple answer is NO
0:06 Space X I only believe once they landed there. They might go bust before that.
Love the jackets at 6:13. A bit Trek inspired? I want one 🙂 Still cool video and wish I could participate.
Please! All of you go to Mars and never come back. I want peace and quiet here on this lovely earth.
We colonies moon or earth or both?!!
I hope Elon Musk succeeds in this
Boring
So I was wondering what would happen to us over time if we were forced to live in artificial and sterile environments for generations, if we'd lose our immune systems and then never be able to survive outside of our bubble cities. If so, people on Mars wouldn't be able to travel to Earth without specialized environmental suits, being the germs and such here could easily harm or kill them. Maybe we'd have invented a series of vaccines by then like we do when traveling for vacations. Eventually Earth and our system will be destroyed when our sun goes super nova, so hopefully by then we'd have solved the issue of our immune systems and such.