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No matter how advanced our civilization is, sooner or later it will have to deal with a problem that is not easy to solve.
Which is?
That of our planet’s finite resources.
And I am not referring to resources such as minerals, clean water, and breathable air, but to something even more fundamental and restrictive: the amount of space available.
There is in fact only a finite amount of land to inhabit on our planet.
Yes, sure, maybe someday we will build floating cities on the oceans, or even manage to live in the deep sea… but it’s only a matter of time… sooner or later some part of us will have to leave the planet…
Okay, but to go where? Useless for the moment to think about the romantic idea of searching for an extrasolar planet, perfect and already nice and ready to live on. The distances are prohibitive, and our technological resources are pathetically insufficient for such a mission.
Thus, if we want a world suitable for our life, it seems that our only option will be to transform a currently uninhabitable planet into one on which humans can survive. And this has a name, and it is called “terraforming.”
A word that in the collective imagination evokes only one thing: Mars.
But despite the belief of many that Mars is the right world to terraform within our solar system, there may be an even better option closer to home: the Moon. And I’ll explain why
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00:00 Intro
2:20 Why?
5:09 what about the Moon?
#insanecuriosity #mooncolonization #marscolonization
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What If Mars and Venus switched places while Mercury (planet) and Io (moon) were in the habitable zone
Be careful when you say things like this around Elen Musk and his dude-bro fans.
If you're on the moon, you can come home for the holidays!🎅
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the next best time is now" I consider this to be best motivational quote I've heard in a very long time. But motivational quotes are useless if you don't practice what you preach*
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Space stations, asteroid belt, Venus cloud cities Mars is like 6th or 7th in order of practicality.
Great video… The only one close to ready to live on the moon is SpaceX and since the leftists HATE Elon this will never be allowed to happen.
If i could live 100‚000 years i would never leave the earth
Exploring space yes but living there NO
Mars has perchlorate in its regolith. Can perchlorate be a source for energy?
Gee, figure out how to do it close, before you try doing it thousands of miles away. Useless to think that living somewhere else is going to be as financially viable as here.
Mars will never be terraformed.
I always wondered why people wanted to go to Mars when the Moon is next door.
Oh my goodness is it really not obvious we are never going to colonize any body in space not the moon not Mars ECT we already know that prolonged periods in space are extremely detrimental and injurious to the human body whoever is pushing this agenda should either check out all the facts for themselves or publish it as much as they are pushing colonization quite frankly I am so sick of seeing and hearing this s*** that's what it is
I believe that we should colonize the moon first. To perfect technology and experience outside of earth.
Well it will be good practice! So that way when we get to Mars we know exactly or somewhat what to do!
I would like to volunteer to leave planet earth 🌏 asap as long as I can take my KTM 350xcf with me it's a weapon and my best friend.
Never understood the want to go to Mars first when the moon is right there it has water and hydrogen 3 plus other materials
Create a self sustaining colony/base on the Moon first then go to Mars, it's easy to send supplies/help to the Moon quickly as opposed to Mars which can only be done during certain 2-3 year windows and take as much as a year to arrive, not practical, going to Mars requires to first have a fully functional self sustaining base on the moon, Mars next.
I'm sold….. to the Moon!!
Yep, people need to learn to learn. You gotta have experience living on the moon, if you're going to go to Mars.
Didn't this channel say men would never colonize the stars in the first place?
What do you means Mars soil is hostile to life… I love it when the dirt can cover me with salt and chemical burns because even the soil has a high enough pH to dissolve flesh VERY slowly and ruin my thyroid with precholarates!
Using a mag-lev train to provide initial acceleration from the moon's surface would save fuel. You could send a capsule to earth with no fuel beyond what is needed for minor course correction.
Yes Mars should be where a greenhouse effect done to revive this planet !
The hardest part of any space colonization plan is lifting materials out of Earth's gravity well. If Luna has the same materials but in a much shallower gravity well, then that's where we should get them.
We need to ensure we don’t screw up the moon’s orbit, if we starting building on it
"One day we will go to Mars" When you speak like that, it won't happen. Humans have this horrible habit, Especially Americans, to fall into a routine and then want to stay that way forever. And even that routine for humans, and especially Americans, is like grinding their teeth on glass. People don't want to do it unless they are forced to. And then once they fall into that routine, they don't want to change. So if people fall into a routine of. Doing this in the lava tube and pulling up that and creating greenhouses, They are not going to want to go to Mars. People need to understand human psychology better, and especially the psychology of America. Unless there is something in it for people, then they don't want to have anything to do with it except for a small, very small population. We know, We have seen a time and time again. Why does Europe have the most powerful atom smasher? Because America decided that it was too expensive to build it here so they spent billions to dig the hole and then billions to fill the hole back up. Why did we originally give up on the moon? Because people didn’t see any reason to go there in the first place. Why did China take so long to develop as a modern nation? Because long long time ago, China closed its doors because it found no reason to keep invading. That’s why now it is so desperate to do everything I can to be relevant on the world stage. Because it knows that past Chinese leaders stagnated the country. Same goes for here. If we want to go to Mars, talking, like the way, you’re talking on this video will not make anything happen. at this rate, we won’t even get to the moon because people won’t care with the way you’re talking. A better way to say it would be, investing in space is an investment in having to build technology for survival, and that technology creates spinoff civilian technology that can benefit us here on earth that without space, we would not be forced to create or even be able to create because of the lack of incentive. We’ve already seen some spinoff technology like medical technology that had its roots in the space age. So we know that when humans are in a life and death struggle, they become very innovative, and that innovation becomes consumer technology. That should be the argument because people don’t care about science, answering questions, all they wanna do is know how technology can help them line their pockets. Or in simpler terms, how science can give them better TV
Totally agree. I never understood why scientists insist on going to Mars when the easiest and most efficient way to do solar system terraforming is by starting with the moon. From there, space launch is so much easier, and the distance from earth makes everything easier including communication.
How about two words? Saves fuel.
They will make a base and a tanker on the moon.. Then, almost anything else.