Should humanity build a Mars Colony or Moon Base?
Your ultimate guide to Mars Colonization and Moon Base construction.
Reusable rockets, such as SpaceX’s Starship, may enable humanity to begin to colonize space in our lifetime. Elon Musk wants a settlement on Mars, but NASA thinks we need a Moon base first.
Who is right?
What are the challenges?
How can we overcome them?
And what does humanity have to gain from a Mars colony or Moon base?
*My Research!*
Here’s a google doc containing links to the various sources I relied on for my facts & info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q4_OkxtRVMRbVmB762uTfsEi-DgYlN0TJ79JuS1afdM/edit?usp=sharing
▬ Timestamps (Chapters) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 – Intro
00:45 – The New Space Race
01:40 – Moon vs. Mars: The Facts
04:23 – Transportation (Rocket Science)
07:20 – The Moon: Practice for Mars?
08:56 – Sunlight & Solar Panels
11:12 – Crops & Energy
13:20 – Resources
15:44 – The Future!
16:56 – Lunar Potential
18:10 – Martian Potential
19:37 – Conclusions
21:30 – Outro
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James O’donoghue
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
Envato Elements
Mars.nasa.gov
Spacetime
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Deep Space Courier
C-bass Productions
Cineistfilm
Erik Wernquist
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Pre-Intro “The Jazz Piano” from Bensound.com
Intro “Perséphone – Retro Funky (SUNDANCE remix)”
Background Music tracks from Envato Elements
Clair de Lune: Claude Debussy
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What did you think of my first Video?
Do you think humans should be focusing on the Moon or Mars first?
I'm eager to know your thoughts! 🙂
Great job Will! Very insightful – wild that we only have a short window of opportunity to go to Mars (every 26 months), and that Mars is the only other planet where plants can grow in natural light!
Wow! Amazing content. Definitely a ton of information I didn’t know!
Fascinating video! I had no idea that existing technology can get us to Mars in 6 months.
Beauty
Excellent content. Very interesting.
I didn’t realize the atmosphere’s for Mars and the Moon were so different, and how detrimental they could be to our survival 😯
Great video!! This is such an exciting time for humanity, can't wait to see what the next decade will bring in terms of space exploration and technology!
What do u think of the NASA Artemis mission with SpaceX going to the moon with starship? Is it worthwhile or should nasa spend money on other things??
Also where do u get the rockets on the bookshelf? They look cool
Although the 8 week dust storm would happen only once every 6 or 7 years, it still seems like it would cause quite a bit of issues. Plants growing from natural light might die either from the lack of light or from damage caused by the dust. Then, solar energy would need quite a bit of storage to sustain everyone using it for 2 months, so to be safe it would most likely need to be 2x just to be sure. Otherwise, Mars is the easy choice compared to the moon.
Taking an analogy from the colonization of Earth's surface. We have deemed many places worth colonizing, and many places not. And those places which have been colonized, didn't necessarily provide a profit for the ones doing the colonizing, even if it does seem profitable for humanity as a whole. We could take for example the colonization of New Zealand, originally by Polynesians and later mostly by the English. Was this directly profitable? Not really, though New Zealand is a pretty good ally and trade partner, both to the pacific islands and to the UK. We could say that long term is was a pretty good idea. There are also many islands which we either never bothered colonizing or tried but gave up because they sucked too much and no-one wanted to live there, and there are also islands – even a continent – where we only have outposts.
I think that Mars is an excellent candidate for colonization. That is that enough people will actually want to live there, and that it is within our technology or near future technology to make a sustainable, independent colony on Mars – of course it won't actually be fully independent unless something catastrophic happens to Earth, but it could be if it had to be. And that Mars will be a useful ally for Earth when it comes to further expansion through the solar system, and also solving some problems on Earth.
The Moon on the other hand: I'm not sure we'd ever really go beyond outposts. It might make sense to industrialize the moon, using massive amounts of robotic labor to strip-mine resources, but for a long time making stuff on Earth will be so much cheaper that even with the gravity well of Earth it will be difficult for a venture on the moon to be economically competitive. And one of the best arguments I've seen for living on the Moon, are wealthy retirees who might find the low gravity more pleasant, but retirees are by definition non-productive. We haven't colonized the ocean just because we exploit it for resources and have cruise liners full of tourists and old people on it, we just utilize the ocean.
So I think that Mars is an excellent place for a colony but the Moon might be a place where people go to visit, work or retire, but not a place people go to to make a life.
Excellently presented and well researched analysis!
Excellent video. Very insightful and informative. Looking forward to your next one.
I didn't know Mars was that easy and rellllatively efficient to get to, ha. With those treadmills, maybe a bowflex or something, and my book/show backlog I think I'd really enjoy the 6 months off!
What type of experience and goals do you think the first martians would have?
great video and great potential to be a big channel!
Great video Will, loved the graphics, pictures and content.
This was a very pleasant watch for a first video
I think we should focus on both for different reasons. Moon could be a great place to extract certain metals for ship construction. But mars is definitely a better destination despite having a much longer transit time.
I like video, nice explained and visualized.
Great video!
Great first video.
I think you did a great job for your first video. Looking forward to seeing more. Subscribed!
liked it
I thought this video had atleast 100k+ views when I saw the production quality, really insightful stuff, I'm definitely more exited for Mars, but I think we should also try and use the moon to the best of its potential, great first video!
Great video, subbed!
Good video!
I would only ask you credit the footage you use, in particular I noticed you used a few clips from Eric Wernquist’s short film “Wanderers”. (It’s also good practice to contact the creators beforehand)
I was wondering how much what type of and material we would need to put a transparent shell over Mars to keep an Earth-like atmosphere in. It’s one of the most efficient ways of terraforming, but I’m just wondering how much would need to be imported, and also how the panels would be assembled in space
Yo Will, great work on the vid. I'd love to hear your perspective on the recent news on UAPs and whether it's worth investigating that sort of thing from a space science perspective or if you think its a waste of time. BTW, have you seen/listened to the Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur podcast? I think you would really enjoy it and it seems similar to what you are doing with this channel.
to surrect planets is how to live in a universe – mars belongs to life
(life as center of the universe)
"Plants could grow on the surface in natural light". I don't think this is possible on Mars because of the low pressure. They'd still need to be under domes filled with CO2 and O2, with water pumped in the soil. But yes, easier than on the Moon!
I'm late to the party but this is excellent
The moon of course. Only an idiot would go to Mars first.
the difference between available sunlight per m2 on the moon and on Eerth must be mich bigger than 3 times. 1m2 in Great Britain receives 1000kWh /m2 and year In middle Europe 1200-1300kwh/m2, in South spain 1800 and in the Sahara desert near the equator 2200KWH/m2 year
but on the moon we receive the full 1370w/m2and on the chosen places on the poles 90% of the time.
kwh /n2 annually
so it is 1,37kw*24*365 *90% = 10,801kWh. annually. this is 5 to 10times as mucch
Fantastic content quality and narration! There are many aspects that favour Mars that I had never thought of.
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