from hostile deserts to lonely islands and the highest mountains wherever there
is space to expand into humans do so so it's hardly surprising that we're already
making preparations to set foot on Mars and to create the first permanent Colony
outside of Earth maybe even terraform on other planets and turn it into a second blue home
but wait before we can get to the nice future stuff we first have to complete the second phase
of colonization creating a semi-permanent Outpost to prepare the ground for a larger human presence
but doing so will be gruesome before we actually go ahead I just want to say you know I'm all about
Venus you've been with me for a while you know that's the big plan around here so if you want
to support our journey and getting to Venus and colonizing Venus and terraforming it you should
come join the membership at first glance Mars seems familiar polar ice caps large valleys
liquid water under its surface and a day barely longer than Earth's the ideal place for us to go
unfortunately Mars is actually a cold radioactive desert where the ground is poisonous and breathing
is impossible that's okay Mars is awful that's okay we can deal with that that's all right could
be worse you almost certainly don't want to go there the Pioneers doing the hard work on Mars
where where is the optimism we're used to from Kersey I want to go there uh I saw some recent
news as well NASA are testing that the idea of uh Crash Landing into Mars rather than you
know gentle or parachuting in they're actually just gonna launch something over there right
and just let it crash into the service and just sort of Bounce Around uh because they by doing
this they'll be able to get to the more desolate areas you know where they don't want to just lose
a half a billion dollars or something uh and so they've tested this recently on Earth it worked
beautifully so they're going to be doing this and it's going to be imagine just you know when we get
to watch this play out one day soon it's going to be so exciting to just sit there and you know
we've got to wait to see if this crash is just gonna you know go up and smoke or make survive it
immensely stressful life filled with incredibly challenging problems never encountered before
but there are plenty of people willing to do that work and we have the technology to enable
them to do it for this video we will assume there have been prior missions to Mars to scout out a
good place for an outpost store resources and equipment and that there's already a moon base
that serves as a hub for Mars missions the first major challenge for our Outpost is the fact that
Mars is very energy poor because of its distance from the Sun solar power is only 40 percent as
effective as on Earth but even this weakened sunlight is often obscured for Days by enormous
dust storms solar power alone will probably not be enough Alternatives such as wind power and
geothermal energy are also unfeasible as there's hardly any atmosphere and Mars's interior is much
too cold all right it's okay we can work with this there's other ways of stealing some energy
initially nuclear technology might be the only option since Mars doesn't have easily accessible
radioactive elements the nuclear fuel needs to come from Earth along with the reactor if we
do set it up it could power our small Outpost for the first few years unfortunately all that
energy won't be very useful if we can't breathe Mars's atmosphere is only one percent as dense
as Earth and mostly made up of CO2 so yeah but just support it the good news is you know nuclear
fission is a great energy source there's lots of things we could take over there that would last
a long time and then also you've got to remember nuclear fusion is right on the horizon and so is
Mars so before we even I don't know if that'll delay things a tiny bit but they're both right
there so hopefully they line up beautifully because nuclear fusion would I mean you know
nuclear fusion itself right but I don't know about a portable nuclear fusion reactor that's
might be asking a bit much of the fusion boys well habitats need to be pressurized and filled with an
artificial atmosphere made of nitrogen and oxygen which comes with more problems corners and flat
walls are weak points so the habitats will have rounded and smooth shapes to handle the stress
of great pressure differences between the interior and exterior that's incredible and never even you
knew we had to do that the airlocks need to be very airtight and work perfectly every time
without an extensive magnetosphere or a dense atmosphere half of all radiation coming from
space reaches the ground a person on the surface would be subjected to 50 times the radiation that
they would be on earth three years on the surface of Mars exceeds the radiation dose limits imposed
on NASA in speaking of the radiation uh yeah this could be a big problem and I believe
studies the science is ongoing you know there's still Lots we're figuring out whether it's even
you know an actual survivability it might not actually be possible to survive on the surface
of Mars unless you have some kind of radiation Shield but there's lots of radiation Shields
don't worry recently I saw some studies a while ago how we might be able to have we
found this radiation eating uh like fungus stuff yeah look at this Chernobyl in 1991
this is so cool radio trophic fungus can we make that a uh a membership level
radio trophy trophic fungus the op Al on our planet anyway let's get back to it their entire
career this increases cancer risks significantly to prevent that we could Shield our habitat layer
of Frozen CO2 that can be harvested directly from the atmosphere covering the dry ice with a
meter of dirt would further increase the level of protection sadly this means almost no windows from
the inside most Living Spaces will be windowless tunnels from the outside they'll look like burial
mounds all of this would still not hold back all the radiation but reduce it just enough to
be survivable for long periods of time it won't however protect anyone who Ventures outside so
remote controlled robots will be used for routine work on the surface while our crew stays inside
staying inside is a good idea for another reason Mars dust it's much finer than dust on Earth so it
could find its way into the gears or Electronics of our machines because it's also very dry it's
electrostatically charged sticking to everything like spacesuits it would be impossible to avoid
carrying lots of Mars dust into our habitat and into the lungs of our crew to make this even
worse Mars's sword is filled with a very toxic perchlorate salts constant exposure could be
deadly this problem can still be overcome though spacesuits for example could be made in a way that
they never truly enter the base but stay attached to the outside of the habitats okay great now
we've safely isolated humans in terms of energy and air and protected them from cancer we just
need this video must have taken so much research right because there's so many things here we need
to solve and so many Innovations is pretty unreal like how much research they did for this video
defeat them water is easy to come by half of this [ __ ] like I've never heard of right
like honestly uh but we're just kind of all know there's going to be you need a lot of Innovations
and it sounds like kurzegov has found some people actually trying to you know solve these things
and of course if you watch that movie The Martian right there was a few of them apparently in there
uh Elon you know has pretty ambitious plans I don't think he's released anything outlining you
know all of this sort of stuff but lots of people have written books particularly I enjoy uh Mission
to Mars by Buzz Aldrin the second guy on the moon if a settlement is positioned near the Martian
poles with their thick layers of ice growing food is a different kind of challenge though
the Martian showed us how we're going to do that we're going to grow potatoes soils are
alkaline and lack the vital nitrogen compounds that plants need to grow before we can grow
anything we will have to decontaminate the soil which is difficult and expensive
then the soil can be fertilized using the vacuum cleaner apparently recycled biological waste all
of this will take a lot of time and is very energy intensive so we might use aquaponics to raise fish
and plants together making the astronauts diets more varied and tasty at the same time this
will be an important psychological boost for our overworked crew all of these things don't solve
one fundamental problem though Mars has only 38 of Earth's surface gravity which could cause muscle
wasting bone loss and cardiovascular problems while this might be solved in the future by
setting up rotating living spaces for now our crew has to live with low gravity and exercise a lot to
slow the degradation down you want to see this played out in a really fun way quite accurately
as well go watch uh the expanse the TV show it's brilliantly written it's based on these books and
they're brilliant and basically there are martians it's in the future you know there's a civilization
on Mars and basically they really can't come back to earth they can for a very limited amount of
time but yeah like like they're suggesting here you know there's their biology somewhat changes
and they can no longer survive Earth gravity so it's really quite interesting to see it
played out in the expanse the crews will probably have to rotate every few years after being stuck
indoors in tight spaces without windows with the same people performing the same routines day in
day out with little contact from the outside world and a lot to worry about like Antarctic scientists
or submarine staff they will undergo intense psychological screening to make sure they're
mentally resilient enough to handle this lifestyle for several years establishing the first realism
Elizabeth Bathory is up there April structure on Mars will be extremely taxing work that only
a group of very determined and competent people can do luckily we have enough of these on Earth
and there you have it a small Mars base that will survive for at least a few decades as long as it's
getting a constant supply of resources Parts nuclear Fuel and Crews from Earth unfortunately
Mars and Earth are separated by millions of kilometers and orbital periods that leave
only a narrow travel window every two years if there's an emergency in the colony Earth wouldn't
be able to help until the next travel window opens helpers may arrive on a planet filled with Corpses
settling Mars will be the toughest challenge we have ever faced it will be gruesome worked
like this bit all played out in detail that book that I suggested is really good for that mission
to Mars Buzz because he's Mr Rendezvous right outlined a plan how we can get there and it's
extremely detailed of you know we're going to use the moon and you know do all this fancy orbital
Dynamic stuff all right so it's fun if you're into that sort of thing but obviously Elon has
figured this stuff out too and if you want to go read his plans it's all they're also kind of
fun to read on SpaceX you can read them on the website it's cool to help until the next travel
window opens helpers may arrive on a planet filled with Corpses settling Mars will be the toughest
challenge we have ever faced it will be gruesome work to establish the infrastructure we need but
we're stubborn and we like extreme challenges if we push through phase two of colonization
anything is possible cities Illuminating the dark Martian night the hub for travel between
the planets Industries setting foot in orbit terraforming a true multi-planetary future
going to Mars is hard but worth it and if we're lucky we might be around long enough to see
it happening and cheer on the people who take on these challenges for the benefit of us all
another awesome video I enjoyed that I still think Venus Venus venician
who's going to join my uh Venus uh colony we will be known as The venician Supremes Lords of
the solar system for the universe as well for that matter but anyway that'll end that video