Fun fact in the song The Final Countdown by Europe, humanity is actually heading to Venus
@truthnjustice663 жыл бұрын
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.75253 жыл бұрын
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact its cold as hell......
@tannerdenny54303 жыл бұрын
oh yeah man it has been told
@izzojoseph23 жыл бұрын
And there’s no one there to raise them... if you did
@FlaminiaJulia3 жыл бұрын
ROCKETMAAAAAAAAN
@AmberWool3 жыл бұрын
Let's give credit to B. Taupin.
@FlyingTigersKMT3 жыл бұрын
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.
@DustinLaGriza3 жыл бұрын
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!
@deemariedubois49163 жыл бұрын
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.
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
Shhhh! Ffs don't give that kook any ideas. We'll be rid of him in a few years.
@kristinehansen.2 жыл бұрын
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.
@noirekuroraigami227010 ай бұрын
@@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
@AnyoneCanSee3 жыл бұрын
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.
@brandonweaver39783 жыл бұрын
👍🏻
@mrhumble29373 жыл бұрын
True
@DinoCism2 жыл бұрын
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.
@georgecromarty53723 жыл бұрын
Love this phrase: "Sailing safely on gale-force winds." Sounds like fun (?)
@gabrielgomescunha3 жыл бұрын
I'm packing already!... But slowly
@pl78683 жыл бұрын
you so smart :) um are you pretty to ? lol
@jmanj39172 жыл бұрын
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.
@fmr88806 ай бұрын
Thats on the surface
@MICRO_3E33 жыл бұрын
Also everyone is first untill they refresh!
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
I'm 45 but not that 45
@yt.personal.identification3 жыл бұрын
One day, these young bucks will realise it is not something to brag about. ...allegedly.
@pghudd3 жыл бұрын
In the words of James May "He who is last shall be first" Yeah I Don't get it either 😕
@johnhayes75903 жыл бұрын
5 minutes? Last time I was this early I had to wait for someone to let me into work
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
Oh nice, last time I was this early I still had a job
@itachisdisciple3 жыл бұрын
Well last time i was that early i had a gf still
@TheWeatherbuff3 жыл бұрын
My question: How many Venus colony disaster movies are in the works now?
@aceundead47503 жыл бұрын
Not enough
@Ye4rZero3 жыл бұрын
Let's get funded and crush it!
@leighpowell10623 жыл бұрын
Well I once knew a girl from Venus, who's body was shaped like a.....
@bretthugick49423 жыл бұрын
Hey Simon I’m a huge fan watch tons of your videos my best regards to you and your family love what you do
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
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.
@planetdisco48213 жыл бұрын
I’m your Venus, I’m your fire, what’s your desire?
@jamesfry89833 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind betting its some sort of water bear hanging out in those clouds
@dank88653 жыл бұрын
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.
@eviljods3 жыл бұрын
Haha Brilliant :)
@JH-ed9rp3 жыл бұрын
Was it the frying or the cleaning? I dont use the abrasive side of my sponge and my pans last forever
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
Use a plastic or wooden utensil, not metal.
@wickedcrayon60223 жыл бұрын
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. 😂
@kathleenr40473 жыл бұрын
@@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".
@nolan43393 жыл бұрын
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.
@aceundead47503 жыл бұрын
Has anyone tried testing coca cola against teflon? If not that needs to be done
@GinodiFonzo3 жыл бұрын
"I'm your Venus, I'm your fire - what's your desire?"
@RRW3593 жыл бұрын
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.
@exastrisscientia03 жыл бұрын
YASSS, I’m so glad you finally covered this... 👊🏽
@superfly24493 жыл бұрын
Live long and perspire.🖖
@alexanotfromamazon3 жыл бұрын
Am I not getting a joke? Or did you mean to say prosper?
@SuperMadsr3 жыл бұрын
Alexa Venus is hotter than earth.
@alexanotfromamazon3 жыл бұрын
@@SuperMadsr thank you. I suppose that's an r/whoosh from me
@toddnolastname44853 жыл бұрын
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.
@khaccanhle19303 жыл бұрын
There once was a woman from Venus, whose body was shaped like a. . . . Star Trek NG.
@FlyingTigersKMT3 жыл бұрын
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
@carlosandleon3 жыл бұрын
what song?
@FlyingTigersKMT3 жыл бұрын
@@carlosandleon - VENUS by Bananarama. Same group that did CRUEL SUMMER for Karate Kid.
@user-wi3yx3gy2o3 жыл бұрын
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.
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
But I wanna go to Venus, I wanna go to venuuuus
@kateapple13 жыл бұрын
You deserve an award for this comment bravo
@stefanschleps87583 жыл бұрын
Some men prefer running from their problems, to make more problems, etcetera.
@justsomepersononyoutube92713 жыл бұрын
I'm going to venus so I don't have to pay my taxes
@stefanschleps87583 жыл бұрын
Thats the spirit. I mean hell with supporting your government, right?
@justsomepersononyoutube92713 жыл бұрын
@@stefanschleps8758 yep
@mred80023 жыл бұрын
Ah, but there would inevitably be taxes there, too. And fees. Lots of fees.
@iowafarmboy3 жыл бұрын
Well, taxation is theft/extortion anyway 🤷♂️
@DixieSeas3 жыл бұрын
Come to the US illegally, where socialist democrats will force hard working Americans to pay for you.
@rachelchavez23493 жыл бұрын
This channel is too cool!!
@mikeygallos50003 жыл бұрын
If future humans can figure out how to deal with the CO2 in Venus to terraform it, might as well terraform Earth 1st.
@stefanschleps87583 жыл бұрын
Es gibt keinen planet B. Soo... yeah.
@montanamike79483 жыл бұрын
Stupid comment is, stupid.
@johnj86393 жыл бұрын
Why does this comment exist? Earth may never need this, and if it did you could still do both at the same time...
@Shazistic3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact High heels were originally men's shoes -Shazistic
@Dratim-l6b3 жыл бұрын
Really?
@Colonel_Overkill3 жыл бұрын
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.
@aceundead47503 жыл бұрын
One of Simon's million other channels actually covered that. Great episode
@CAP1984623 жыл бұрын
Yes that’s true, originally they were cavalry boots, it had something to do with preventing injury from falling off the horse.
@jasmorris12863 жыл бұрын
We miss you Simon over on visualpolkit. The other guys are cool and all but there no Simon.
@AcostaE3 жыл бұрын
Humans should go there.
@emsdaddyyy3 жыл бұрын
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
@catystrophia96193 жыл бұрын
I wish I could be around to experience this.
@charlieknight85633 жыл бұрын
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
@Vasileski883 жыл бұрын
Simon why aren't doing VisualPolitik anymore?
@eggselent98143 жыл бұрын
That is a great background for a science fiction ngl
@mch1n1183 жыл бұрын
I’d move there.
@mikebar423 жыл бұрын
She wanted to colonize Venus but I told her not until I colonize Uranus first
@pl78683 жыл бұрын
lol
@BMW7series2513 жыл бұрын
@@pl7868 Rude but well LOL !!
@Wraith_of_Storm3 жыл бұрын
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.
@jmanj39172 жыл бұрын
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
@leotka10 ай бұрын
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.
@corywilliams22553 жыл бұрын
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)..
@ericoberlies75372 жыл бұрын
261 million kilometers is the maximum distance apart of the two planets, when on opposite sides of the Sun.
@arisdelfino99553 жыл бұрын
Elon musk Left the group
@flareinc74133 жыл бұрын
This idea is so awesome. O.o Thank you Simon and Team for making this.
@paulxaviercyr3 жыл бұрын
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??
@carlosandleon3 жыл бұрын
Fossil record says no
@joimy953 жыл бұрын
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.
@rumenoakabob99733 жыл бұрын
Gives “Go to Hell!” A whole new meaning then doesn’t it? Hahaha
@DFSJR12033 жыл бұрын
Rocket Lab in New Zealand is planning a mission in 2023 to look for life on Venus.
@snowmiaow3 жыл бұрын
We need to learn to take care of this planet before we go ruining another one.
@lokimotive69593 жыл бұрын
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 😒
@veritasvalere883 жыл бұрын
Simon could you please tell me if you think there is life on EUROPA??
@radinelaj39322 жыл бұрын
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.
@spencer19803 жыл бұрын
Its also got a massive and easily accessible heat source
@spencer19803 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't even need nuclear power on venus
@dizzyboxnine26563 жыл бұрын
Venus over Mars...YES!
@Bacopa683 жыл бұрын
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.
@mred80023 жыл бұрын
Nope
@wasabista16133 жыл бұрын
I always thought Venus was a better choice than Mars. A little toasty though.
@jester16633 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
sure
@qwertyuiopgarth3 жыл бұрын
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....
@kieranfoster9023 жыл бұрын
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.
@live2ride183 жыл бұрын
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.
@bobdobbolina83763 жыл бұрын
....along with whatever is holding the food.
@carlosandleon3 жыл бұрын
We can just throw out trash out the window lol
@justanotherfella45853 жыл бұрын
So we’re going to Venus instead then yeah?
@snowmiaow3 жыл бұрын
Terraforming Venus using microorganisms sounds interesting.
@dwjoseph593 жыл бұрын
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 😁😁👍👍👍.
@shebbs13 жыл бұрын
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)
@dwjoseph593 жыл бұрын
@@shebbs1 ok, cool. Thanks for the correction.
@oxylepy2 Жыл бұрын
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_meister4773 жыл бұрын
Balloon cities: what could possibly go wrong?
@WWeronko3 жыл бұрын
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.
@samlincoln13 жыл бұрын
Star wars moment
@Dangit-Dangit3 жыл бұрын
Thunderf00t will love this.
@bobcat9501 Жыл бұрын
Everyone gets their sunshine state
@cameronrudolph59193 жыл бұрын
I read the thumbnail too quick and it looked like Iy said clout city 🤣
@montanamike79483 жыл бұрын
Derp
@jakeg31263 жыл бұрын
Why not under crust,
@christopherbays77193 жыл бұрын
Just gonna say In SimEarth. It was way easier to terraform Mars than Venus
@ashleyking67433 жыл бұрын
If the term Venusian is used for Venus then does anybody know what the term is for the other plants. Just curious
@shebbs13 жыл бұрын
There are such terms, maybe not official, such as Martian for Mars, and Jovian for Jupiter.
@patricko15633 жыл бұрын
As a very long term idea moving closer to the sun is bad, as eventually the sun will expand.
@michaelmayhem3503 жыл бұрын
Well now we need a tifo video about how to make this infernal gas at home 😂🤣
@videt74593 жыл бұрын
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.
@MrNeboff3 жыл бұрын
lol
@Lasershadow3 жыл бұрын
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.
@brentblasi78993 жыл бұрын
Why?
@djrabbitt4233 жыл бұрын
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
@nyne72533 жыл бұрын
There is already somebody there I hear.
@tux96563 жыл бұрын
Where did you hear that?
@plinkitee3 жыл бұрын
If there is life on Venus that's one big reason to not colonize it.
@Anthonydanells3 жыл бұрын
Nothing like running to another planet after laying waste to where we come from
@Dratim-l6b3 жыл бұрын
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-jacobin61703 жыл бұрын
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.
@DarkLordoftheMeme3 жыл бұрын
@@neo-jacobin6170 Invasive species weren't an issue until we started moving creatures around the world willy-nilly
@nothingforyouhere4183 жыл бұрын
The universe has ruined this planet far more times and in ways human never could.
@DarkLordoftheMeme3 жыл бұрын
@@nothingforyouhere418 What's the relevance of that? It doesn't absolve us.
@oskarvomhimmel69363 жыл бұрын
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”...?
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
That's no fun
@darrenmalthouse75263 жыл бұрын
Humans are rubbish. Space is excellent. I vote Venus.
@JR-sx3gl3 жыл бұрын
That could be achieved in under a decade. Problem is the overlords will not stand for it unless they can remain in control.
@SIS3W3N3 жыл бұрын
How about get the f out of the way, Luddite?
@loopslytle3 жыл бұрын
There are many reasons Venus will make a better habitat than Mars for humankind, even with today's technology.
@linz82913 ай бұрын
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.
@astrogatorjones3 жыл бұрын
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_3E33 жыл бұрын
Thanks for giving like to all three comments i posted here
@sethbrooks88893 жыл бұрын
Cloud city eh?
@jimh43753 жыл бұрын
Longest lasting probe on Mars 15 years. Longest lasting probe on Venus 2 hours.
@saerbhreathach5403 жыл бұрын
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.
@dalaanibombina88223 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@kevinberg843 жыл бұрын
You should use a de-esser on your voice
@garyb15343 жыл бұрын
1 Big reason we should not....Because we F up everything we touch...
@meetoo5943 жыл бұрын
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.
@ChiChiLand2993 жыл бұрын
Wonder if you could just use space elevators to simply pump the excess CO2 into space?
@jaquigreenlees3 жыл бұрын
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.
@beastie2443 жыл бұрын
Should we be worried about Venus cloud spider? Yes. Yes we should be
@TheXDS3 жыл бұрын
Reason #11: we can get to call it Coruscant
@alexrossouw77023 жыл бұрын
Man will never live on Venus's surface But I hear that Woman do...
@FlyingTigersKMT3 жыл бұрын
I'm your Venus I'm your fire At your desire - famous last words
@georgecromarty53723 жыл бұрын
Will you, please, do a video on this topic: "Terraforming the Earth" (?)