I mean, that's the idea, right? I feel like the purpose of Star talk is not to lecture, but to present science in a way that it just rubs on you and you notice you're actually learning while laughing at Neil laughing at Chuck 😅
when people talk about terraforming Mars everyone forgets that before you can give Mars an atmosphere you need to make the magnetic field stronger or the sun will just blow it all into space.
Isaac Arthur explains all that and how it can be done but it's more likely favorable to live underground. He also brings up floating cities on Venus and that though very slow Venus is actually easier to terra-form. Even turning the asteroid belt into O'Neill cylinders and starting our Dyson swarm. Because if you can manage a LaGrange Point orbital magnetic field for a planet doing it for a cylinder is a cake walk. Of course all his futurism is centuries ahead mostly though amazingly based on real physics and technologies that are totally feasible. He'll explain warp drive or wormholes but also why they don't likely work out. So you use massive fusion lasers or beam energy from the swarm to the lasers and push ships toward slowing lasers pre-built by Von Neumann probes! Seriously hundreds of great videos and an honestly positive thinker.
Not true. The atmosphere would bleed off over millions of years. If youve already slapped an atmosphere down in a generation or few human life times then this isn't an issue Mars today still has atmosphere left from when it had a magnetosphere 4 billion years ago. It's a slow process
@Keksi That's not true. I'm Christian and I'd like to see Mars being terraformed. But I'd also like to see politicians accept that global warming exists and that we need to fix the planet we're on before considering other planets.
@Keksi what's funny is a bowl of chilli to terraform Mars has more in common than your argument with just whatever you were talking about. i *could* explain to you why that was the stupidest thing I heard the last week or even month, but I don't like wasting time.
Yeah but what will be left to conserve if we are hit with a gamma ray burst or some asteroid like the one that resulted in the total annihilation of the dinosaurs.Not just those two but there are a million other threats that can destroy this planet .What do you suggest we do if something like that happens.
@@reddragon771 Does it matter if nothing living is there to get killed? With that argumentation you can save time and effort terraforming any planet, as those also can get hit by whatever. The destruction here is man made and will continue everwhere else
Neil: "it rotates, it has seasons, it has polar ice caps" Dax: "Hey, we have that too!" Neil: "But its river beds are BONE DRY" Dax: "AND WE ARE HEADED THERE TOO!!!" That killed me man, I was not ready for that
We shouldn’t Terraform Planets as any life that was adapted to the Environment of the Planet beforehand would be killed because they couldn’t survive in conditions that we could. We could’ve studied the life on that Planet and stuff but then we will it off. We also shouldn’t Terraform Planets because many places on those planets might be flooded and many cool sights that maybe people would wanna see would be flooded and to never be seen again. Also by the time we would have Terraformed a planet, That Planet mostly likely have hundreds of Millions of People Living on it. We could easily live in Contained Habitations and not Terraform the Planet. Terraforming would be useless. The Last Reason I think we shouldn’t Terraform Planets is because low Elevation cities could be flooded. We would have to evacuate possibly millions of people to do that! Ya these are my reasons we shouldn’t Terraform Planets.
You always have to take into consideration that if we had a population of humans on Mars for an extended amount of time, if they tried to come back to earth after a year+ they wouldn’t have the bone or muscle strength to walk or do much of anything.
Large rotating habitats. There’s a Japanese architecture firm that figured out a design that is the size of a 20-40 story bldg that looks like a wine glass. The rotating wine glass part is a wider angle on mars than there design for the moon in order to get the resulting gravity to be 1g. Should be wide enough that people, or most people, won’t get sea sick and the forces at peoples heads will be fairly close to what they experience at there feet. If only spend a 10 hour shift every day or every other day out on the surface doing exploration stuff you would not deteriorate as bad. In the short term they could put up a smaller system that is similar in concept, but maybe does not rotate as fast to get to .6 or .7 g. Or if it is small and moving very fast it might still be doable for 1 g but because the forces on peoples heads and feet would be to different it might make most sense to use for sleeping quarters and stationary exercise equipment where your body is mostly perpendicular to the center of the rotation where your head is not more that a few inches closer to the center. There is a carnival fair ride called the graviton that rotates fast enough to get to 3g. If you had a similar design on Mars to go from .38 to 1 g it would be rotating much slower and as long as you were laying down and not up walking across the center most people probably would not get supper sea sick.
They could still walk and do things. It'd just be a lot harder for them. It'd be like you doubling your weight overnight for 2 weeks. Even someone born and raised on Mars could visit and not be miserable with proper training. I could be wrong though. Too much scifi.
@Lordturisas1 the problem would be the humans born in Mars bc their bones won't be as developed as ours, it's not just muscle if your bones aren't developed enough you won't survive properly in earth gravity
Bullocks. It would be easier to save Earth than to make Mars habitable for humans. It is not even a life friendly planet, the costs would be astronomical. Mine it for resources, sure, no one is there- but Earth is a far more worthwhile investment, it is home.
What's stopping you from fixing your own fuckin street? People can terraform Mars because they want to. If you wanted your street fixed you can do it. Or you can sit back and wonder why anyone does anything since you do nothing.
@@johnmorelli3775 just wait till our technology can transfer those oxygen to Earth and Mars. Our future generations will conquer few planets at the time.
From the second I heard of Neil Degrassi Tyson, he has inspired me and kept me fascinated about the cosmos. The way he moves his hands and body when explaining the subject makes me wish I could see the pictures in his head. They would be works of art 🌎🌕💫⭐️☄️
Something people don’t seem to get: The reason people talk about colonizing Mars in response to climate change on Earth is because no one owns Mars. Yes, it would be technically much harder to terraform Mars than it would be to reverse global warming here on Earth. But there are no POLITICAL barriers to terraforming Mars. So it’s a commentary on just how irreconcilable our politics are that people are discussing colonization of Mars as a solution to climate change. The engineering challenge on Mars, as difficult and expensive as it would be, seems infinitely more achievable than cutting through political challenges here at home. That’s the reason...and it’s terribly depressing that we’ve reached that point.
GoodWolf yea, and it to mention some new dictator may raise an army on mars at some point and mars may be regarded an enemy. We may have the tech to wipe mars out, but the ethical issues to face will be interesting. But all that is way into the future.
I've been saying for years that, to a large extent, many of our social and political problems are simply due to the fact that earth no longer has any frontier. In the earliest days of the U.S., if you didn't like the way things were going... you simply packed up and moved west. Can't do THAT anymore...
But also that if we’re able to terraform another planet it’s a plan B for if any other extinction event happens on earth since even if we can only send bacteria to a terra formed mars it could eventually evolve into new life on another planet given the right circumstances
Earth is definitely the best. Wouldn't solar wind blow away any atmosphere we create on Mars if we don't first put a magnetic field in place to shield it?
If we speed up the rotation then the days and nights will no longer be similar to earth. Also the mass of mars isnt similar to that of earth and so even that will also be a reason for the gases leaving the planet.
Their chemistry is so infectious! They make it so accessible, that a 5 year old could watch and it would make some sort of sense. I need people like this in my life
Within about a decade of having a mars base, or a moon base for that matter, we will have acquired the resources necessary to put a large magnet in place to reflect the solar wind. If you’re wondering, humans have built magnets many times more powerful than the earths magnetic field, the problem we face is the range of the field, not the power.
Terraforming Mars is one of the most ambitious ideas humanity has ever considered-a vision of transforming the Red Planet into a world that could support human life. Imagine creating a breathable atmosphere, warming the surface, and even introducing water systems and vegetation, gradually reshaping Mars into a second Earth. The process, however, is incredibly complex and faces huge scientific, ethical, and technological challenges. Mars has a thin, carbon dioxide-heavy atmosphere, extreme cold, and high radiation levels, all of which make it hostile to life as we know it. To terraform it, we’d need to find ways to thicken the atmosphere, potentially by releasing gases trapped in the planet’s soil or polar ice caps, and create a magnetosphere to protect from solar radiation. Even with vast technological advances, this might take centuries or more. While we’re still far from realizing this vision, the idea of terraforming Mars inspires new innovations and reminds us of our drive to explore, adapt, and make the impossible possible. As humanity looks to expand its reach beyond Earth, Mars could be our first step toward becoming a truly interplanetary species.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about the solar wind effects on Mars since it lacks a powerful magnetic field. That's to me the biggest challenge of creating and maintaining a thick atmosphere.
Yea they managed to miss quite a few valid points to terraforming Mars. I feel bad for anyone who watched this and came away with the idea that all we need is methane and bacteria to make Mars habitable... 😕
😢As a little girl I used to cry because kids would made fun of me, calling me nerd because my love and fascination for science. Specially since I had to wear glasses and was an introvert. As I got older I realized how cool and interesting nerds are..intelligence is lethal.
With the amount mass to be added via asteroids could it slow the revolution speed of Mars around the sun. Although with our planets traveling around the sun and our solar system around our galaxy I wonder if these forces help maintain our planets orbit around the sun.
3:53 He's not wrong. Start off with co2 and h2o. Sunlight converts it to sugars (C6H12O6), animals convert some to mostly co2, but some methane (CH4) as well....leaving some free O2 as a by product of inefficiency. Back me up Chem and Bio majors. Physic major here. Pretty sure I did the basic stociometry right.
Not even a minute into the video and we have chuck with an amazing Arnie Total Recall reference and Neil ready to explode from laughter. Damn i love these guys so much!
"Oh no, Earth is dying because greenhouse gases and melting ice caps!" "I have an idea! Let's move to mars!" "But Mars doesn't have a thick enough atmosphere!" "It will if we riddle it with greenhouse gases and melt the ice caps!"
@@ansh6370 on a planet? And I'm in a soda can? Two presuppositions I haven't claimed nor can you prove. Tho I do know you can not have pressure without something to press upon? Tiny little earth with its tiny little layers of gases in an ever increasing vaccume! Lol. Entropy would take place and the gas would fill the available space and we'd be at 10 to the minus 17 negative tor! We're not as we breathe quite well here ..... the heliocentric religion is fake! Star trek is not real. Stop following pseudoscience
If Mars is colonized, then we could potentially also build a system where the entire martian electrical grid is first funneled through a system that creates a planetary aligned magnetic field.
@@nolan4339 Exactly. People keep up talking about magnetic fields. As if making one isn't old tech. Someone needs to explain how electromagnets work to these guys.
@@infozone9601 On a Planetary Scale? Where's the power going to come from to create that and maintain it - indefinitely? What kind of effect is that going to have on the people who live there? Seems you'd want to do that before you tried Terra Forming it rather than after. .
I want to say you can live on VENUS At 50k up on the atmosphere is the most earthlike place (besides earth obviously) on the solar system. We could live there on floating cities like Bespin on star wars
@@Ron-rs2zl it would solve most of it but not all, ex Venus doesn't have oxygen nor water and rotates every 116 days and cooling it is more harder to do than heat it. It would for example need a giant umbrella of mirrors to Shadow the planet which it turn would require massive engineering and materials. I have no doubt that eventually it will be terraformed but for now Its easier to just build habitable areostats and link them together using oxygen itself as a lifting gas.
"Terra forming Mars as an escape for earthlings" Here comes the Peeing on the campfire: For one millionth the cost of terra forming Mars, you could terra form earth.
No You Couldn’t.....To Terraform Mars All you need to do is heat the planet And Release what’s already there.... to terraform earth Back to its prior Self would take science we don’t have or understand because we Have to Cool Down Earth and decrease our carbon footprint Which would still take billions....Also that would require almost the entire planet working together
@@KingPfrenger How many people would you need to heat up Mars to the point that it releases it payload? Remember that it doesn't have an internal heat like earth so all the heat would have to be external. How much would it cost to deliver the materials needed? Just the travel to Mars would be astronomical for a whole fleet of rockets. Time. You only have a couple of windows open each year to send rockets. People, time, materials, pay, fuel, You are talking about a continuing effort that would need the co-operation of several countries for more than a century. Just in the 20th century allegiances between countries have have shifted almost every generation (20 years). Expenditures. We have a problem getting buy-in for a Climate Change Agreements that in the end has very few teeth. And you expect the GDP of many countries to be spent yearly for more than a century? I AM NOT spending my lifetime of tax payer monies for a Martian life for some future humans. And there is no way to afford to send billions of earthlings to mars, so why would the billions of people want to spent that HUGE amount of money and time for a few humans going to mars???
@@twalrus1 1. I Don’t Know Where you the Idea that this would take a Century (A 100 Years) 2. Besides All your Points You Realize That Just Getting rid of Emissions Isn’t Enough to Reverse the damage done to the Atmosphere? You Would Literally Need Fallout 3 G.E.C.K Level Technology To Reverse What We’ve Done to Our Atmosphere...... 3. Elon & NASA Are Basically Funding This Entire Project Well Mostly Elon, So Your Taxes Have Little To Do With This...
Chuck is learning.That's how you do it. This show is doing a good job to show that. The humble admission of the unknown is a courageous attenpt to learn. With a the right person around to recognize that, you will learn.
I feel like Chuck has done these so much he's actually starting to learn some things.
I mean, that's the idea, right? I feel like the purpose of Star talk is not to lecture, but to present science in a way that it just rubs on you and you notice you're actually learning while laughing at Neil laughing at Chuck 😅
@@TheMcspreader 😂😂😂
Chuck is learning astrophysics but can't learn how to pronounce the names of the people asking questions 😅
Two black men discussing physics on TV. How cool is THAT ?
😀👍🏻 i know what
U mean
when people talk about terraforming Mars everyone forgets that before you can give Mars an atmosphere you need to make the magnetic field stronger or the sun will just blow it all into space.
Isaac Arthur explains all that and how it can be done but it's more likely favorable to live underground. He also brings up floating cities on Venus and that though very slow Venus is actually easier to terra-form. Even turning the asteroid belt into O'Neill cylinders and starting our Dyson swarm. Because if you can manage a LaGrange Point orbital magnetic field for a planet doing it for a cylinder is a cake walk. Of course all his futurism is centuries ahead mostly though amazingly based on real physics and technologies that are totally feasible. He'll explain warp drive or wormholes but also why they don't likely work out. So you use massive fusion lasers or beam energy from the swarm to the lasers and push ships toward slowing lasers pre-built by Von Neumann probes! Seriously hundreds of great videos and an honestly positive thinker.
Does anyone know the book nemesis by azimov? Could small engines eventually stop the loss of one of the moons, the escaping moon?
A serious look at adding a magnetosphere to Mars. medium.com/our-space/an-artificial-martian-magnetosphere-fd3803ea600c
I think you right Mars need an strong magnetic field and stronger gravity .
Not true. The atmosphere would bleed off over millions of years. If youve already slapped an atmosphere down in a generation or few human life times then this isn't an issue
Mars today still has atmosphere left from when it had a magnetosphere 4 billion years ago. It's a slow process
"Welcome to Mars. Here's your bowl of chili."
That was funny!
a new hashtag?
@Keksi That's not true. I'm Christian and I'd like to see Mars being terraformed. But I'd also like to see politicians accept that global warming exists and that we need to fix the planet we're on before considering other planets.
@Keksi this should be going viral
@Keksi what's funny is a bowl of chilli to terraform Mars has more in common than your argument with just whatever you were talking about. i *could* explain to you why that was the stupidest thing I heard the last week or even month, but I don't like wasting time.
Dumd&...
"Has it occured to anyone that we should take care of this planet?"
The most important question in this video! Thanks Chuck!
In 7 billion years, the Sun will engulf the Earth and it doesn't matter. Eventually, humans will become a multi-planet species or go extinct.
Well no because the sun will eat earth
Yeah but what will be left to conserve if we are hit with a gamma ray burst or some asteroid like the one that resulted in the total annihilation of the dinosaurs.Not just those two but there are a million other threats that can destroy this planet .What do you suggest we do if something like that happens.
@@reddragon771 Oh its simple we will die there is your answer
@@reddragon771 Does it matter if nothing living is there to get killed?
With that argumentation you can save time and effort terraforming any planet, as those also can get hit by whatever.
The destruction here is man made and will continue everwhere else
"Eat a lot of chili" was funny but you got to admire his creativity in finding a solution.
It’s not a solution though…
@absalon pierce yeah human treat planet like a cellphone if you got a money you just trow it away
@@dzakynaufal5007 don’t be human then
It wasn't that funny.
@@hansgruber9685 its a joke
This guy is like a bigger version of Kevin Hart.
with them eyes and stuff
and smarter, kidding Kevin is a lovely guy.
I was looking for this comment 😆
nah, Carlton Banks.
A 2 year old is a bigger version of Kevin Hart
“Welcome to Mars. Here is your bowl of chilli” 🤣
😂😂😂
i have detected cringe
Btw the smell 's just the termites...
x CooperTroop x that Emoji ruined the comment
"Help the Ecology!"
Love Neil Degrasse. His warmth and humor makes science so much more accessible to the masses.
What you really mean is that peons find him comical. 😅
No NdG for me
Neil: "it rotates, it has seasons, it has polar ice caps"
Dax: "Hey, we have that too!"
Neil: "But its river beds are BONE DRY"
Dax: "AND WE ARE HEADED THERE TOO!!!"
That killed me man, I was not ready for that
whos dax
I mean he's got a point
Hahah i had the same
How are headed there too?
1:43, I clearly understood the joke, pretty hilarious!!!!!
Chuck: *Breathes*
Neil: "AHAHHAHAHAHAHH...STOP IT... AHAHAHAHAHHA".
Well in Neil's defense, chuck is funny as hell!
Neil is very good person, let him laugh.
The joke on eating chilli and farting was funny
Seeing Neil dying laughing was funnier than the jokes tbh
That's the way friends work
Neil basically claimed this man's arm for himself...
We shouldn’t Terraform Planets as any life that was adapted to the Environment of the Planet beforehand would be killed because they couldn’t survive in conditions that we could. We could’ve studied the life on that Planet and stuff but then we will it off. We also shouldn’t Terraform Planets because many places on those planets might be flooded and many cool sights that maybe people would wanna see would be flooded and to never be seen again. Also by the time we would have Terraformed a planet, That Planet mostly likely have hundreds of Millions of People Living on it. We could easily live in Contained Habitations and not Terraform the Planet. Terraforming would be useless. The Last Reason I think we shouldn’t Terraform Planets is because low Elevation cities could be flooded. We would have to evacuate possibly millions of people to do that! Ya these are my reasons we shouldn’t Terraform Planets.
Ortherner why did you comment on this comment?
@@justadummy8076 maybe a mistake, he probably meant to type in the comment above, Its more fitting.
Isn't arm-grabbing what almost got him canceled?
LOL
You always have to take into consideration that if we had a population of humans on Mars for an extended amount of time, if they tried to come back to earth after a year+ they wouldn’t have the bone or muscle strength to walk or do much of anything.
They can do weightlifting.
A question, why would they come back to Earth? That's your new home at that point.
Large rotating habitats. There’s a Japanese architecture firm that figured out a design that is the size of a 20-40 story bldg that looks like a wine glass. The rotating wine glass part is a wider angle on mars than there design for the moon in order to get the resulting gravity to be 1g. Should be wide enough that people, or most people, won’t get sea sick and the forces at peoples heads will be fairly close to what they experience at there feet. If only spend a 10 hour shift every day or every other day out on the surface doing exploration stuff you would not deteriorate as bad.
In the short term they could put up a smaller system that is similar in concept, but maybe does not rotate as fast to get to .6 or .7 g. Or if it is small and moving very fast it might still be doable for 1 g but because the forces on peoples heads and feet would be to different it might make most sense to use for sleeping quarters and stationary exercise equipment where your body is mostly perpendicular to the center of the rotation where your head is not more that a few inches closer to the center.
There is a carnival fair ride called the graviton that rotates fast enough to get to 3g. If you had a similar design on Mars to go from .38 to 1 g it would be rotating much slower and as long as you were laying down and not up walking across the center most people probably would not get supper sea sick.
They could still walk and do things. It'd just be a lot harder for them. It'd be like you doubling your weight overnight for 2 weeks.
Even someone born and raised on Mars could visit and not be miserable with proper training.
I could be wrong though. Too much scifi.
@Lordturisas1 the problem would be the humans born in Mars bc their bones won't be as developed as ours, it's not just muscle if your bones aren't developed enough you won't survive properly in earth gravity
the giggle fest right in the beginning when Neil half lost his sh*t was some of the purest-most-therapy-like moments I've ever needed.
Cringe
T Durden very enlightening, thank you!
That earns a like on any planet.
It's been 4 years, are you still this lame?
"Hey! We're headed there too!"
XDDDDDDDDDDD
Yeah Greta Thunbergs not talking shit
All evidence of climate change is out of sight.
My beachfront hasnt eroded these past 30 years despite "melting ice caps".
NdGT: we need to increase the greenhouse gasses in Mars so that water can return!
Humans: "It's like, I was made for this"
😂😂😂 sadly true
Just give me 1M Coals and i will start to terraform mars
That's exactly whst we've done to our planet only the polar ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising.
lets ship some cows over there, we got plenty here :P
did the Kars stone land on Mars?
This interview slaps.
It do slap
This comment slaps.
This comment also slaps.
W comment
Yuh
"When we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth."
I have heard this so many goddamn times.
Yeah, so we need to save Earth first.
Yep
Damn straight. Lets fix up the mess here first, its got to be easier than terraforming Mars.
That is actually not accurate. Earth is pretty much beyond repair already. Stabilizing sure saving. Not so much.
Bullocks. It would be easier to save Earth than to make Mars habitable for humans. It is not even a life friendly planet, the costs would be astronomical. Mine it for resources, sure, no one is there- but Earth is a far more worthwhile investment, it is home.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I like me some Earth"
Mars IS earth.
Was gonna comment this
Smh Inners...
@ Do you not realize how ignorant you sound?
@@flatstuff1630 Mars could be made Earth-like. Mars is not Earth. Earth IS Earth. Mars IS Mars.
Watching these two giggle makes me giggle.
Yes you right especially when you smoking a big old joint
"Quit hogging all the oxygen!"(in Schwarzenegger voice)Killin me!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Same here 🤣🤣💀
Are you real?
@@Chadhogan111 yup!
How can they terraform Mars when the street I live on is still a cratered runway from 1975?!
Jeffrey A. Smith 😂
Exile your city fathers to Mars?
People care about Mars. They don't care about your street. Humans can do almost anything we can imagine if we want to.
What's stopping you from fixing your own fuckin street? People can terraform Mars because they want to. If you wanted your street fixed you can do it. Or you can sit back and wonder why anyone does anything since you do nothing.
everyone stop trying to act smart cause you aren't
Jeffery Was MAKING A JOKE
“Welcome to Mars. Here’s a bowl of Chili!”
😂😆😂😆🤣🤣🤣
Chuck: "That's what I tell my wife.. we have too many termites.. its not me" 🤣🤣🤣
You thought it was the sounds of crickets rubbing their exoskeletons... it were actually teeny tiny termite farts!
*it's*
I dont want another Earth. I already have my home and as an immigrant, I can tell you this: you can love the new place all you want, but home is home.
True
How will they keep the atmosphere from getting swept away without a magnetic field to guard against solar winds?
I think that bombing the poles could actually help reheat the outer core and make it liquid...I think...don’t come at me if I’m wrong lol
NASA says its be possible to create a artificial magnetic sphere, and not completely outside of our technological abilities.
cal dawg
That is brilliant to hear!
3.14159265358 put a large electromagnet in a heliocentric orbit that coincides with mars
why cant they use nuke reactor to make an atmosphere thats automated to produce air ?
Bro this was one of the funniest conversations ive ever seen
👍👍
The fact this is even a conversation at this point is so cool
Neil:
“Everyone’s talking about terraforming mars
and not Venus”
“Ever wonder why?”
Chuck:
Uhhhhh
Neil:
“Okay here’s why” 🤣🤣
Both planets pose a big challenge but in reverse! Mars has
@@johnmorelli3775 just wait till our technology can transfer those oxygen to Earth and Mars. Our future generations will conquer few planets at the time.
Imagine heating up mars so hard the polar ice caps melt and instead of a new Earth we get a new Kamino.
100,000 nerds would be ready, with a million more well on the way
We'll get that clone army going
Oh i love this comment wow
I honestly don't know what Kamino is...
@@bobinthewest8559 bruh search it up
something elon musk would advertise “we have plenty of chili and beans” 😂😂
The Day that we have the Power to Turn Mars into Earth, We will have the Power to turn Earth into Earth - Neil Degrasse Tyson
From the second I heard of Neil Degrassi Tyson, he has inspired me and kept me fascinated about the cosmos. The way he moves his hands and body when explaining the subject makes me wish I could see the pictures in his head. They would be works of art 🌎🌕💫⭐️☄️
9:08
Neil predicted Corona, confirmed.
Not surprised! NDT is amazing!
He predicted a virus not corona
Unoriginal
Everybody predicted one except trump
Predicted... or knew....
This is like a science conversation after several strong drinks
His voice is like soft butter being spread on hot cinnamon toast, so smooth. I could listen to It all day.
there are two men talking in this video and you say "his"...
Thanks
Something people don’t seem to get:
The reason people talk about colonizing Mars in response to climate change on Earth is because no one owns Mars.
Yes, it would be technically much harder to terraform Mars than it would be to reverse global warming here on Earth. But there are no POLITICAL barriers to terraforming Mars.
So it’s a commentary on just how irreconcilable our politics are that people are discussing colonization of Mars as a solution to climate change. The engineering challenge on Mars, as difficult and expensive as it would be, seems infinitely more achievable than cutting through political challenges here at home. That’s the reason...and it’s terribly depressing that we’ve reached that point.
GoodWolf yea, and it to mention some new dictator may raise an army on mars at some point and mars may be regarded an enemy. We may have the tech to wipe mars out, but the ethical issues to face will be interesting. But all that is way into the future.
I've been saying for years that, to a large extent, many of our social and political problems are simply due to the fact that earth no longer has any frontier.
In the earliest days of the U.S., if you didn't like the way things were going... you simply packed up and moved west.
Can't do THAT anymore...
But also that if we’re able to terraform another planet it’s a plan B for if any other extinction event happens on earth since even if we can only send bacteria to a terra formed mars it could eventually evolve into new life on another planet given the right circumstances
we also grew up watching star wars and other space related civilizations, so colonizing mars is very appealing to us.
@@bobinthewest8559 True. Hopefully Mars and maybe Floating Venus Cities can give us those opportunities back! 😁👍🏻
We have to go Mars; for the Elon -tusk- musk memes
see ur a man of culture
@@t.j1301 👌👌👌
The DORUK hahaha nice reference
I'm so glad that I don't get it.
Treelon Musk*
Chuck: Something tells me you have a bias towards Earth
Neil: *i LiKe mE sOmE eArTh*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I gave a thumbs' up for the Arnie impression. 👍
Earth is definitely the best.
Wouldn't solar wind blow away any atmosphere we create on Mars if we don't first put a magnetic field in place to shield it?
If we speed up the rotation then the days and nights will no longer be similar to earth. Also the mass of mars isnt similar to that of earth and so even that will also be a reason for the gases leaving the planet.
Yep, of course. I'll add, DUH
Mars does not have an atmosphere for a reason.
It is also needed to protect inhabitants from solar radiation.
@@nickolascrousillat4265 we only need to speed up the molten core
Their chemistry is so infectious! They make it so accessible, that a 5 year old could watch and it would make some sort of sense. I need people like this in my life
Neil is almost like a natural born teacher. Like no teacher I ever had but wish I did.
"Eat a lot of chili." damn lmao😂
No magnetic field = no atmosphere retention = no water retention .
Within about a decade of having a mars base, or a moon base for that matter, we will have acquired the resources necessary to put a large magnet in place to reflect the solar wind. If you’re wondering, humans have built magnets many times more powerful than the earths magnetic field, the problem we face is the range of the field, not the power.
8:17
“One is none. Two is one. If it matters, it needs a backup”
-CGP Grey
I could watch these two go all day hahah this was great
now I want chili
I could do without the other guy. Dr Tyson is enough for me.
I love Niels laugh it’s so contagious
Terraforming Mars is one of the most ambitious ideas humanity has ever considered-a vision of transforming the Red Planet into a world that could support human life. Imagine creating a breathable atmosphere, warming the surface, and even introducing water systems and vegetation, gradually reshaping Mars into a second Earth. The process, however, is incredibly complex and faces huge scientific, ethical, and technological challenges. Mars has a thin, carbon dioxide-heavy atmosphere, extreme cold, and high radiation levels, all of which make it hostile to life as we know it. To terraform it, we’d need to find ways to thicken the atmosphere, potentially by releasing gases trapped in the planet’s soil or polar ice caps, and create a magnetosphere to protect from solar radiation. Even with vast technological advances, this might take centuries or more. While we’re still far from realizing this vision, the idea of terraforming Mars inspires new innovations and reminds us of our drive to explore, adapt, and make the impossible possible. As humanity looks to expand its reach beyond Earth, Mars could be our first step toward becoming a truly interplanetary species.
This was great! The camaraderie was awesome and the questions were inspiring. If anything is human-kind's greatest threat, it's itself. Thanks guys!
8:30 I'm just so sad that the asteroid hit the exact island where i live in Indonesia
target practice
but did you die?
Why?
If that happens take a selfie with it
Oof
Chuck :* says something*
Neil : *tells him a long amount of stuff*
Meanwhile: *chuck :sits staring at the camera *
"Welcome to Mars, here is a bowl of chili 😁😂😂💀😭😭
Can I please get this man as my physics teacher??😂💕
He already is "your personal astrophysicist"
I already love science. But these two make it so much fun.
Same 😀
It wouldn't bother me talking with Neil for endless hours about space.
It's interesting when you consider the last time mars had an atmosphere the sun was cooler than it is now. It might kick start quicker than you think.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about the solar wind effects on Mars since it lacks a powerful magnetic field. That's to me the biggest challenge of creating and maintaining a thick atmosphere.
Yea they managed to miss quite a few valid points to terraforming Mars. I feel bad for anyone who watched this and came away with the idea that all we need is methane and bacteria to make Mars habitable... 😕
Who’s this comedian? 😂 he needs his own show!
😢As a little girl I used to cry because kids would made fun of me, calling me nerd because my love and fascination for science. Specially since I had to wear glasses and was an introvert. As I got older I realized how cool and interesting nerds are..intelligence is lethal.
Don’t make this about you
@@a-a-rxn Complain elsewhere
@@razier5299 You’re that
Haha nerd
nerd
“We have termites” 😂😂 I love this channel more than interstellar molecular biology
I could listen to neil for hours.. oh wait a min i already do!
where do you listen to neil for hours?? we rarely get over 1 hour on startalk
Oh man, you guys are so much fun to watch! And love the way Dr Tyson giggles 😀❤️
I’ve never laughed so hard while learning so much, thanks so much guys.
Chuck is right take care of Earth first
"I like me some Earth." NdGT
Neil: “...so that there’s no killer virus that takes it out”
Earth: “hold my beer...”
Earth: “Hold my Corona.”
9:04
5:23 just throw astroids from the astroid belt on Mars. That’ll do it.
Plus it will bulk up the planet a little bit
Could you do that?
@@lebryantjohnson7306 Its a simple weapon and quite destructive.
With the amount mass to be added via asteroids could it slow the revolution speed of Mars around the sun. Although with our planets traveling around the sun and our solar system around our galaxy I wonder if these forces help maintain our planets orbit around the sun.
3:53 He's not wrong.
Start off with co2 and h2o.
Sunlight converts it to sugars (C6H12O6), animals convert some to mostly co2, but some methane (CH4) as well....leaving some free O2 as a by product of inefficiency.
Back me up Chem and Bio majors. Physic major here. Pretty sure I did the basic stociometry right.
Play the board game Terraforming mars
The goal is ... Well.. You ... Terraforming mars 😂
Did you notice how many steps it takes? 42.
@@fajenthygia5760
But the question remains
'how do we get enough methane to mars?'
'chilli'
I love Neil. But what i am really here for is Chuck
Opposite for me
Not even a minute into the video and we have chuck with an amazing Arnie Total Recall reference and Neil ready to explode from laughter. Damn i love these guys so much!
Elon musk: let’s go to mars
Also Elon musk: lets entomb the planet in satellites.
Elon musk after: oh wait.
Put the satellites on the moon.
@Casual_Ice_Consumer wut
1:43, I clearly understood the joke, pretty hilarious!!!!!
man apart from the information, i love when Chuck has Mr Tyson laughing uncontrollably. so wholesome.
Dr Tyson🙂
"Oh no, Earth is dying because greenhouse gases and melting ice caps!"
"I have an idea! Let's move to mars!"
"But Mars doesn't have a thick enough atmosphere!"
"It will if we riddle it with greenhouse gases and melt the ice caps!"
It's fun to be old enough that my childhood sci-fi is being discussed as future science.
Perhaps the flat earthers can teach us how to build a "firmament" on Mars. 😀
Ask God, they would say
Or .... how do you have pressure without a container? Space is fake!! Boo hoo!!
@@matthewmitchell3820 but first of all, you gotta flatten Mars. Our else people would fall off of most of its territory
@@matthewmitchell3820
I'm sorry that you live inside a soda can, we here living living on a planet don't actually care.
@@ansh6370 on a planet? And I'm in a soda can? Two presuppositions I haven't claimed nor can you prove. Tho I do know you can not have pressure without something to press upon? Tiny little earth with its tiny little layers of gases in an ever increasing vaccume! Lol. Entropy would take place and the gas would fill the available space and we'd be at 10 to the minus 17 negative tor! We're not as we breathe quite well here ..... the heliocentric religion is fake! Star trek is not real. Stop following pseudoscience
I can't stop laughing, but still learn. :-D
👍👍
Thank you Neil and chuck for these educational videos
Just finished learning about this for my beginners Astronomy course in college lol. It's so cool to have so many perspectives on the same issue!
but if you want to have a thicker atmosphere you will also need a magnetic field that protects the atmosphere from being blown away by the solar wind
If Mars is colonized, then we could potentially also build a system where the entire martian electrical grid is first funneled through a system that creates a planetary aligned magnetic field.
@@nolan4339 Exactly. People keep up talking about magnetic fields. As if making one isn't old tech.
Someone needs to explain how electromagnets work to these guys.
@@infozone9601 On a Planetary Scale? Where's the power going to come from to create that and maintain it - indefinitely? What kind of effect is that going to have on the people who live there?
Seems you'd want to do that before you tried Terra Forming it rather than after.
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I want to say you can live on VENUS
At 50k up on the atmosphere is the most earthlike place (besides earth obviously) on the solar system. We could live there on floating cities like Bespin on star wars
That would proper dank
What if you reverse the runaway greenhouse on Venus,would it cool enough to live there?
@@Ron-rs2zl it would solve most of it but not all, ex Venus doesn't have oxygen nor water and rotates every 116 days and cooling it is more harder to do than heat it. It would for example need a giant umbrella of mirrors to Shadow the planet which it turn would require massive engineering and materials. I have no doubt that eventually it will be terraformed but for now Its easier to just build habitable areostats and link them together using oxygen itself as a lifting gas.
Need to get grav stabilisers tho
9 seconds pizza sounds nice.
Neil: “We would have to warm Mars”
Humans: “Say no more”
So fun to watch even for us who have very little knowledge of astronomy. Amazing show 🤗
*Pluto watches this*
Pluto: there is the stupid person who renamed me as a dwarf planet!
Neil: [BELEEP] THIS [BELEEP] IM OUT
cringe detected
0:46 when chuck nice realizes he has comedy gold
Goodness me these two never fail to get me belly laughing. What a duo.
"Terra forming Mars as an escape for earthlings"
Here comes the Peeing on the campfire:
For one millionth the cost of terra forming Mars, you could terra form earth.
No one cares
@@freshair9133 You hurt my feelings
No You Couldn’t.....To Terraform Mars All you need to do is heat the planet And Release what’s already there.... to terraform earth Back to its prior Self would take science we don’t have or understand because we Have to Cool Down Earth and decrease our carbon footprint Which would still take billions....Also that would require almost the entire planet working together
@@KingPfrenger How many people would you need to heat up Mars to the point that it releases it payload? Remember that it doesn't have an internal heat like earth so all the heat would have to be external. How much would it cost to deliver the materials needed? Just the travel to Mars would be astronomical for a whole fleet of rockets. Time. You only have a couple of windows open each year to send rockets. People, time, materials, pay, fuel, You are talking about a continuing effort that would need the co-operation of several countries for more than a century. Just in the 20th century allegiances between countries have have shifted almost every generation (20 years). Expenditures. We have a problem getting buy-in for a Climate Change Agreements that in the end has very few teeth. And you expect the GDP of many countries to be spent yearly for more than a century? I AM NOT spending my lifetime of tax payer monies for a Martian life for some future humans. And there is no way to afford to send billions of earthlings to mars, so why would the billions of people want to spent that HUGE amount of money and time for a few humans going to mars???
@@twalrus1 1. I Don’t Know Where you the Idea that this would take a Century (A 100 Years)
2. Besides All your Points You Realize That Just Getting rid of Emissions Isn’t Enough to Reverse the damage done to the Atmosphere? You Would Literally Need Fallout 3 G.E.C.K Level Technology To Reverse What We’ve Done to Our Atmosphere......
3. Elon & NASA Are Basically Funding This Entire Project Well Mostly Elon, So Your Taxes Have Little To Do With This...
*future when suns grows big*
future humans: Lucky we picked mars, though earth looking hot.
"eat a lot of chili" lmfao
yall got some real bad chili XD
This video is awesome. I love Neil’s Dr. Hibbert style giggle.
Neil, that killer virus statement aged well within 6 months from the time this video was uploaded.
Neil, I would love to meet you in person. Seriously you, Bill Nye and Richard Dawkins, that would be one hell of a day .
Would you all sit around smoking the green like they did before this video ?
@@unnamedchannel1237 Carl Sagan loved to chief the reef.
Neil "So...." deGrasse Tyson
You guys cheer me up every episode, I've started watching everyday 🙂👊🏾
7:41 Nice (no pun intended)! Didn't think in this way😃
Chucks Arnold Total Recall impression is the first time he's ever made me laugh
Nah, Chucks been on a roll lately
9:10 Yeah we would be able to, like NASA’s DART mission that’s gonna deflect an asteroid.
Chuck is learning.That's how you do it. This show is doing a good job to show that. The humble admission of the unknown is a courageous attenpt to learn. With a the right person around to recognize that, you will learn.