10 Reasons Colonizing Venus is a Good Idea

[@kingtony793]

Fun fact in the song The Final Countdown by Europe, humanity is actually heading to Venus

[@truthnjustice66]

Always, always have wondered why Venus was overlooked as a viable alternative! We should have began studying Venus all along in my opinion, even if for no other reason, science.

[@c.l.7525]

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact its cold as hell......

[@tannerdenny5430]

oh yeah man it has been told

[@izzojoseph2]

And there’s no one there to raise them... if you did

[@FlaminiaJulia]

ROCKETMAAAAAAAAN

[@AmberWool]

Let's give credit to B. Taupin.

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

There are worse neighborhoods to raise your kids though... At least you don't have to be worried about getting killed in a rover-by.

[@DustinLaGriza]

Build 1000 space blimps with envelopes that can each contain 5 cubic kilometers of compressed atmosphere. Fill them with Venusian atmosphere and then use solar sails and the slingshot gravity trick to send these blimps to Mars for unloading. Then send them back. Make them fully automated. After perhaps a few decades, the atmosphere of Mars will get noticeably thicker while Venus may start to cool. You'd be terraforming two planets at once!

[@deemariedubois4916]

I had never heard any of this. I always felt the Mars colonization movement was impractical, an astronomical potential waste of money, and frankly foolish. But Venus sounds much more doable. Does Elon Musk know about this? Thanks Simon.

[@pakde8002]

Shhhh! Ffs don't give that kook any ideas. We'll be rid of him in a few years.

[@kristinehansen.]

Yes Elon know about Venus but he is stuck on his childhood dream of going to Mars. Hopefully interest in Venus goes up as they realize Mars is too hard to live on.

[@noirekuroraigami2270]

@@kristinehansen. Idk I feel like mars is a once trip. Like the Grand Canyon, you see it once take it all in with its magnificence and forever tell people you have been to the Grand Canyon

[@AnyoneCanSee]

I sometimes feel a little sad that I was born in a period just before we make giant leaps forward. But I was extremely lucky to be born now and not as some peasant in medieval Europe, worked to death on some rich assholes farm and never travelling further than the next village which describes pretty much the last few thousand years of life in Scotland. When I travel by plane I really take for granted something that a few generations ago would have been beyond the wildest dreams of man. So I guess I'd take a colony on Venus for granted too once I'd been there once - "I hate working on Venus there's nothing to do" etc.

[@brandonweaver3978]

👍🏻

[@mrhumble2937]

True

[@DinoCism]

You do realize that's a massive assumption right? It's equally possible you were born in the period before we fall back into a new dark age brought by ecological collapse and economic failure. Lol Your pessimism is way too optimistic to be realistic imo.

[@georgecromarty5372]

Love this phrase: "Sailing safely on gale-force winds." Sounds like fun (?)

[@gabrielgomescunha]

I'm packing already!... But slowly

[@pl7868]

you so smart :) um are you pretty to ? lol

[@jmanj3917]

The atmosphere on Venus is so thick that, despite the g-force being similar to that of the earth, one of the effects would be to make it harder to move because the air is so thick. You would definitely be slowed by the added resistance, I think.

[@fmr8880]

Thats on the surface

[@MICRO_3E3]

Also everyone is first untill they refresh!

[@pakde8002]

I'm 45 but not that 45

[@yt.personal.identification]

One day, these young bucks will realise it is not something to brag about. ...allegedly.

[@pghudd]

In the words of James May "He who is last shall be first" Yeah I Don't get it either 😕

[@johnhayes7590]

5 minutes? Last time I was this early I had to wait for someone to let me into work

[@pakde8002]

Oh nice, last time I was this early I still had a job

[@itachisdisciple]

Well last time i was that early i had a gf still

[@TheWeatherbuff]

My question: How many Venus colony disaster movies are in the works now?

[@aceundead4750]

Not enough

[@Ye4rZero]

Let's get funded and crush it!

[@leighpowell1062]

Well I once knew a girl from Venus, who's body was shaped like a.....

[@bretthugick4942]

Hey Simon I’m a huge fan watch tons of your videos my best regards to you and your family love what you do

[@sandybarnes887]

Business Blaze Mega Projects Side Projects Top Tenz Today I Found Out Biographics Geographics Highlight History Xplrd Visual Politik EN The Simon Whistler Show I may have missed one. Visual Politk is now hosted by someone else, Simon was presenter for a long time. The Simon Whistler Show hasn't had new content for a while.

[@planetdisco4821]

I’m your Venus, I’m your fire, what’s your desire?

[@jamesfry8983]

I wouldn't mind betting its some sort of water bear hanging out in those clouds

[@dank8865]

Re: Teflon. Did they try fried eggs to degrade the Teflon samples. Cuz I've lost count of the number of Teflon coated frying pans I've trashed by frying eggs in em.

[@eviljods]

Haha Brilliant :)

[@JH-ed9rp]

Was it the frying or the cleaning? I dont use the abrasive side of my sponge and my pans last forever

[@sandybarnes887]

Use a plastic or wooden utensil, not metal.

[@wickedcrayon6022]

I hear you. I find it hard to believe teflon can survive the rigors of space/alien atmospheres when it can’t handle anything sharp or abrasive. I’m in need of a new teflon pan right now as a matter of fact. 😂

[@kathleenr4047]

@@wickedcrayon6022 'Something sharp or abrasive' simply removes the Teflon from the pan. --- But you already know that, don't you? You just HAVE to use that fork in the pan, and then you blame the Teflon. ---- Also, if it doesn't SAY 'Teflon', it's not Teflon. It's some other kind of cheap stuff. --- The cheap stuff doesn't say 'Teflon'. It just says "non-stick pan".

[@nolan4339]

The variety of things we could build with just CO2, Nitrogen, Sulfuric acid and trace amounts of chlorine and fluorine is actually quite amazing. If we could just invent and drop some floating automated processing modules into the atmosphere it is possible that you would be able to fully build your colonies with the carbon and polymer building materials that they create. If we could just fully work out carbon-based electronics, and perfect some of the other processing and automation technologies, I don't see why such a floating colony couldn't be mostly sustainable.

[@aceundead4750]

Has anyone tried testing coca cola against teflon? If not that needs to be done

[@GinodiFonzo]

"I'm your Venus, I'm your fire - what's your desire?"

[@RRW359]

The fact that the two closest planets have the solution to eachother's problems that make them uninhabitable is proof that if there is a creator of the universe he/she is trolling us.

[@exastrisscientia0]

YASSS, I’m so glad you finally covered this... 👊🏽

[@superfly2449]

Live long and perspire.🖖

[@alexanotfromamazon]

Am I not getting a joke? Or did you mean to say prosper?

[@SuperMadsr]

Alexa Venus is hotter than earth.

[@alexanotfromamazon]

@@SuperMadsr thank you. I suppose that's an r/whoosh from me

[@toddnolastname4485]

Wouldn't we need an asteroid or two to build cloud cities on Venus? Also, how much is the atmosphere of Venus like the predictions for Earth under global warming? If the lizards had a civilization before us, they may have moved to Venus after dropping the asteroid on themselves, and then did that planet in with fuel that turned into carbon dioxide. Not sure what they were burning, since we're burning them.

[@khaccanhle1930]

There once was a woman from Venus, whose body was shaped like a. . . . Star Trek NG.

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

She's got it Oh baby she's got it I'm your Venus I'm your fire At your desire - Wiser words have never been said by any human

[@carlosandleon]

what song?

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

@@carlosandleon - VENUS by Bananarama. Same group that did CRUEL SUMMER for Karate Kid.

[@user-wi3yx3gy2o]

So let me get this straight: worst case scenario we overpopulate and destroy the earth making it almost as horrible a place to live as...Venus or Mars. But Mars is too far away to be a workable first colony. Venus is closer and we could survive on Venus by using advance technology like floating cities and technologies for capturing solar energy and converting it into energy (electricity), food, and other useful resources-that would all be trillions of times more efficient and effective if we did similar projects on...Earth.

[@pakde8002]

But I wanna go to Venus, I wanna go to venuuuus

[@kateapple1]

You deserve an award for this comment bravo

[@stefanschleps8758]

Some men prefer running from their problems, to make more problems, etcetera.

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

I'm going to venus so I don't have to pay my taxes

[@stefanschleps8758]

Thats the spirit. I mean hell with supporting your government, right?

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

@@stefanschleps8758 yep

[@mred8002]

Ah, but there would inevitably be taxes there, too. And fees. Lots of fees.

[@iowafarmboy]

Well, taxation is theft/extortion anyway 🤷‍♂️

[@DixieSeas]

Come to the US illegally, where socialist democrats will force hard working Americans to pay for you.

[@rachelchavez2349]

This channel is too cool!!

[@mikeygallos5000]

If future humans can figure out how to deal with the CO2 in Venus to terraform it, might as well terraform Earth 1st.

[@stefanschleps8758]

Es gibt keinen planet B. Soo... yeah.

[@montanamike7948]

Stupid comment is, stupid.

[@johnj8639]

Why does this comment exist? Earth may never need this, and if it did you could still do both at the same time...

[@Shazistic]

Fun fact High heels were originally men's shoes -Shazistic

[@Dratim-l6b]

Really?

[@Colonel_Overkill]

Where, France and England's nobility. When, roughly 1800 I think. The concept was to prove they are so rich that they can afford to wear useless shoes.

[@aceundead4750]

One of Simon's million other channels actually covered that. Great episode

[@CAP198462]

Yes that’s true, originally they were cavalry boots, it had something to do with preventing injury from falling off the horse.

[@jasmorris1286]

We miss you Simon over on visualpolkit. The other guys are cool and all but there no Simon.

[@AcostaE]

Humans should go there.

[@emsdaddyyy]

The fact that we are on earth is no coincidence I mean earth is literally perfect for us. Earth gives us everything we need and that is beautiful

[@catystrophia9619]

I wish I could be around to experience this.

[@charlieknight8563]

Showing LOVE for the Top Tenz channel thanks for another great video Mr Simon Whistler and the beard is looking great as usual thank you for another greaten. Thank You and have a blessed day

[@Vasileski88]

Simon why aren't doing VisualPolitik anymore?

[@eggselent9814]

That is a great background for a science fiction ngl

[@mch1n118]

I’d move there.

[@mikebar42]

She wanted to colonize Venus but I told her not until I colonize Uranus first

[@pl7868]

lol

[@BMW7series251]

@@pl7868 Rude but well LOL !!

[@Wraith_of_Storm]

It is entirely possible to do all of what has been said here, but you're right about our technological limitations. To be fair, in all aspects, whatever ideas that humans can concoct will always be limited by their technological era and evolutionary limitations.

[@jmanj3917]

Right now this video is eleven months old, and this phosphene "study" has been fairly shredded by the scientific community for improper procedures and wrong conclusions. Oh well; It was fun while it lasted...lol

[@leotka]

Easiest way to reduce temperature on Venus is pump carbon dioxide to Venus orbit through pipeline. It will create huge moon from carbon dioxide and make additional protection from sun.

[@corywilliams2255]

Venus is actually 40.2 million kilometers (25.8 million miles) from Earth. 261 million kilometers is farther than the distance between Earth and the sun (93 million miles or 149.6 million kilometers)..

[@ericoberlies7537]

261 million kilometers is the maximum distance apart of the two planets, when on opposite sides of the Sun.

[@arisdelfino9955]

Elon musk Left the group

[@flareinc7413]

This idea is so awesome. O.o Thank you Simon and Team for making this.

[@paulxaviercyr]

What if today's Earth... Is #2?? What if Venus was first and we messed it all up? Could there have been an advanced civilization that started on Venus and migrated to Earth or sent settlers during an environmental extinction event??

[@carlosandleon]

Fossil record says no

[@joimy95]

No the oldest human ancestor what was a small mamal is 3 milion years old. Venus being earth like was about 300 milion years ago.

[@rumenoakabob9973]

Gives “Go to Hell!” A whole new meaning then doesn’t it? Hahaha

[@DFSJR1203]

Rocket Lab in New Zealand is planning a mission in 2023 to look for life on Venus.

[@snowmiaow]

We need to learn to take care of this planet before we go ruining another one.

[@lokimotive6959]

At the current rate we are going by the time we discover a way to terraform Venus we're gonna need that technology to save our planet 😒

[@veritasvalere88]

Simon could you please tell me if you think there is life on EUROPA??

[@radinelaj3932]

Instead of Mars/Venus, why he/we doesn't/don't make/ convert deserts into a habitable area, there is lots of surface there, many people can live there ( if there are the conditions). Big cloud project : You can make/produce a( thick harmless) giant cloud above Africa/ deserts ( covering it all), it can decreasing 30% of heat, or more . Thermos project : You can make giant thermos in deserts , building cities inside it , but filling its walls with air( not with vacuum),that is easier , important is to be the dark/ shadow between two walls of giant thermos,that is sufficient , is it not necessary to make vacuum inside the walls of thermos , but is sufficient be /set the dark/shadow between two walls of thermos, that is sufficient to create a cool area inside the thermos( without vacuum),( similar things ), so it is giant thermos almost( it is not exactly a thermos). Hole project : You can dig/ pierce make make a giant hole inside ( under of surface of deserts building many cities/neighborhoods inside it( like giant thermos inside it ) , it would be cool weather( normal temperature )there , ( under the surface) Floating islands( project) : You can choose/ find positions on ocean's surface which has normal temperature ( cool weather) and build floating islands there . There is a lot of surface there.

[@spencer1980]

Its also got a massive and easily accessible heat source

[@spencer1980]

You wouldn't even need nuclear power on venus

[@dizzyboxnine2656]

Venus over Mars...YES!

[@Bacopa68]

Mercury is actually the closest planet to earth. Look it up. Kinda mind blowing, but it makes total sense. Lots of videos on this here at YT.

[@mred8002]

Nope

[@wasabista1613]

I always thought Venus was a better choice than Mars. A little toasty though.

[@jester1663]

The cloud city. If the balloon is supporting weight and fails or gets a rip. How could it be like opening a window? I get equal pressure, but wouldn't there still be support pressure?

[@aluminiumsloep]

sure

[@qwertyuiopgarth]

Extremely fanciful. I can see a research site floating in the Venusian atmosphere, but actual settlement doesn't seem in the least practical. Among other things, where would the settlers get the materials to construct additional settlements? Everything has to be imported....

[@kieranfoster902]

Surely the most practical thing to do is to try to stop / reverse climate change on Earth. We have / had a beautiful planet to call home. It we tried to stop screwing it up for future generations we wouldn't need to look elsewhere.

[@live2ride18]

The only benefit of living on Venus is being able to stick your food out the window and cook it in seconds. That’s it.

[@bobdobbolina8376]

....along with whatever is holding the food.

[@carlosandleon]

We can just throw out trash out the window lol

[@justanotherfella4585]

So we’re going to Venus instead then yeah?

[@snowmiaow]

Terraforming Venus using microorganisms sounds interesting.

[@dwjoseph59]

And i believe venus is blazing on it's sunny side & bone chilling cold on it's non sunny side. And i think it rotates in the opposite direction than the earth & rotates more slowly too, right?!?! We might have to look to other solar systems for another livable planet. Great content as usual though 😁😁👍👍👍.

[@shebbs1]

Your take on how Venus rotates is correct, but not the distribution of temperature. Because of the nature of its atmosphere, both the day and night temperatures are roughly the same, even though one Venusian day is around the same length as its year (a bit longer)

[@dwjoseph59]

@@shebbs1 ok, cool. Thanks for the correction.

[@oxylepy2]

I thought our historical love affair was with Venus, then Russia figured out it was hell and our modern love affair is with the diminutive Mars

[@agent_meister477]

Balloon cities: what could possibly go wrong?

[@WWeronko]

A Mars colony is a technological challenge. However, it will happen and the video's curt rejection of the possibilities does a disservice to the viewer. Venus for the foreseeable future will likely be the site for a floating research facility. For all the reasons mentioned it is technologically possible to do so but hardly economic or self supporting. Mars offers resources from Mar's surface, and easier excess to the asteroid belt and its own diminutive moons for additional materials. Mars can eventually became self supporting, economic and independent. Because of the extreme difficulty of getting to and operating on the Venusian surface most materials will have to be brought to the outpost. It would take centuries before a Venus colony could be economic and self supporting. In future centuries it may occur but I hardly would count on it.

[@samlincoln1]

Star wars moment

[@Dangit-Dangit]

Thunderf00t will love this.

[@bobcat9501]

Everyone gets their sunshine state

[@cameronrudolph5919]

I read the thumbnail too quick and it looked like Iy said clout city 🤣

[@montanamike7948]

Derp

[@jakeg3126]

Why not under crust,

[@christopherbays7719]

Just gonna say In SimEarth. It was way easier to terraform Mars than Venus

[@ashleyking6743]

If the term Venusian is used for Venus then does anybody know what the term is for the other plants. Just curious

[@shebbs1]

There are such terms, maybe not official, such as Martian for Mars, and Jovian for Jupiter.

[@patricko1563]

As a very long term idea moving closer to the sun is bad, as eventually the sun will expand.

[@michaelmayhem350]

Well now we need a tifo video about how to make this infernal gas at home 😂🤣

[@videt7459]

So we're pondering traveling 160 million miles to colonize a planet that's boiling hot because of how much CO2 it has in its atmosphere? In 50 years, we're going to have one right here.

[@MrNeboff]

lol

[@Lasershadow]

Meh, right now colonizing Venus would be stupid expensive, like Solar Roadways stupid expensive. Maybe one day when we can create realistic weather control technology and could chill out that pressure cooker we will colonize Venus. Better off starting with making a permanent usable summer home in Death Valley.

[@brentblasi7899]

Why?

[@djrabbitt423]

Great work Sir, you have an great team... content is always entertaining. Could you do a TopTenz on the 10 'best' years in movie history. Which year 'pound-for-pound' had the best movies? Academy Awards, box office numbers, and the lasting legacies of the movies, etc. Cheers

[@nyne7253]

There is already somebody there I hear.

[@tux9656]

Where did you hear that?

[@plinkitee]

If there is life on Venus that's one big reason to not colonize it.

[@Anthonydanells]

Nothing like running to another planet after laying waste to where we come from

[@Dratim-l6b]

I agree. Why don’t we hear about the extremely rich and upwardly mobile spend their disposable income on exploring the Marianas Trench or the core of the Earth? Just a thought.

[@neo-jacobin6170]

What's this nonsense. Have you ever heard of an invasive species. If not, then you should realize that this is something Nature encourages. Your argument is like if ancient humans were against the ideal of moving to all continents outside of Africa.

[@DarkLordoftheMeme]

@@neo-jacobin6170 Invasive species weren't an issue until we started moving creatures around the world willy-nilly

[@nothingforyouhere418]

The universe has ruined this planet far more times and in ways human never could.

[@DarkLordoftheMeme]

@@nothingforyouhere418 What's the relevance of that? It doesn't absolve us.

[@oskarvomhimmel6936]

Before “colonizing” planet X, how about first “Top 10 Reasons to bring Education and Sustainability (food/ water/ basic human needs) to ALL existing human colonies in Planet Earth”...?

[@pakde8002]

That's no fun

[@darrenmalthouse7526]

Humans are rubbish. Space is excellent. I vote Venus.

[@JR-sx3gl]

That could be achieved in under a decade. Problem is the overlords will not stand for it unless they can remain in control.

[@SIS3W3N]

How about get the f out of the way, Luddite?

[@loopslytle]

There are many reasons Venus will make a better habitat than Mars for humankind, even with today's technology.

[@linz8291]

Bro, when your ideas trying to let more people think about if Venus is habitable, cloud and mushroom cities had build by our Venus neighborhoods.

[@astrogatorjones]

Also, ~100 genes in our immune system stop working in zero g. We don't know if 38% of 1 g is enough to keep it working. Or maybe it works 38% of normal... The problem with the immune system in 0 g has been compared to AIDs. What if COVID got loose with compromised immune systems.

[@MICRO_3E3]

Thanks for giving like to all three comments i posted here

[@sethbrooks8889]

Cloud city eh?

[@jimh4375]

Longest lasting probe on Mars 15 years. Longest lasting probe on Venus 2 hours.

[@saerbhreathach540]

This makes absolutely no sense....there's no way venus is a better candidate for colonization than mars..... 1. The gravity on mars isn't that much weaker than earth's. 2. We DO NOT posses the means to colonize either the atmosphere or surface of venus....however we do posses the tech needed to do so on mars. 3. The costs to keep colonists safe would be astronomical, pun intended...lol, much more than the cost to keep them safe on mars. 4. There's more potential to terraform mars and it's atmosphere all thanks to the ice that is there... 5. Closer doesn't equal better.... 6. There is absolutely no life on venues...the current "study" ignores many facts that disprove their findings.... I'm not going to bother busting the rest of these foolish "reasons" why venus is better than mars, cause they're just that foolish day dreams.....with just the slightest of knowledge on the subject one can see the foolishness behind it.

[@dalaanibombina8822]

Well said.

[@kevinberg84]

You should use a de-esser on your voice

[@garyb1534]

1 Big reason we should not....Because we F up everything we touch...

[@meetoo594]

I read recently that the phosphene in Venus atmosphere is probably caused by the atmospheric composition itself and not by biological means. Also, the results of the paper that proposed life as the cause have not been replicated by other labs looking into it. Having said that, we really don't know much about the Venusian biosphere so it could still go either way.

[@ChiChiLand299]

Wonder if you could just use space elevators to simply pump the excess CO2 into space?

[@jaquigreenlees]

nope, gravity would pull it right back down to the planet. even if you did manage to get it to escape Venus, you are just dumping a lot of it into Earth's atmosphere.

[@beastie244]

Should we be worried about Venus cloud spider? Yes. Yes we should be

[@TheXDS]

Reason #11: we can get to call it Coruscant

[@alexrossouw7702]

Man will never live on Venus's surface But I hear that Woman do...

[@FlyingTigersKMT]

I'm your Venus I'm your fire At your desire - famous last words

[@georgecromarty5372]

Will you, please, do a video on this topic: "Terraforming the Earth" (?)