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Thanks for the educational videos!

[@michaelz6820]

Finally a video 🎈🎈

[@murilovsilva]

Kurzgesagt videos: 70% trippy, cool as shit scientific stuff 30% birds dying horribly

[@alexanderrahl7034]

Except that one with the elephant! Lol

[@ressljs]

But birds will apparently also beat humans to Mars and then we'll probably lose the inevitable interplanetary war. This channel has opened my eyes to how much of a threat birds truly are.

[@tonyhakston536]

charlie mann my head hurts.

[@just_some_dude019]

@@ressljs What? so we like to simulate universes where instead of humans rule it, birds rule it. wait. oof, wrong timeline. i need to get back to my time.

[@GIboy1990]

Its funnier when you remember each bird is unique and was designed for a patreon supporter. so basically, Kurzgesagt really enjoys murdering its supporters.

[@kentam6891]

Imagine future kids choosing between Earth and Martian history!

[@erilobar9402]

And then sitting though it bored, until they reach adulthood and fully realise how cool it all was and how relevant it was to their lives.

[@simi8220]

mars would be easier, no history xd

[@Xendruis]

Earth history definitely its more tragic and deep

[@danielduvernay3207]

We’ll find a way to summarize it all into one major.

[@KevinMcLean]

I like the sound of that

[@cloudystarsky8381]

Someone needs to base a game on stuff like this.

[@Imperial_Navy_40K]

Surviving Mars is a great game developed by Paradox, the developer of some of the best and most well known grand strategy game in the world

[@ddd8828]

You should play Terraforming Mars :p

[@SpaceKebab]

Kerbal space program, planet base, surviving mars, stellaris, spore

[@imdiongrandomstuff29]

agreed

[@helldog9402]

Planetbase!

[@orangetatosauce]

this channel's extreme love for science fiction things inspired me, making me inspired and determined enough to ad them into my books, this has sprouted an entire alien species in it, then an entire series of books, about nine of them too! This is amazing. i've always loved this series, but the fact that It inspired me this much is more insane than half of my villains

[@Sporkinator]

Science fiction indeed! Space is fiction, but still really cool to imagine.

[@werbizzy]

Wow! How may I find said books?

[@orangetatosauce]

@@werbizzy they're not published yet. But keep an eye out for T A Dina in bookstores

[@matinwaheed4916]

🐦 are smart

[@tinalobaodavis3598]

Um space is not fiction where did you get that false information?

[@tytyisthemanthetruth.4868]

"They will need to stay inside a lot" Well looks like were ready for mars

[@rowshamsas]

us:pathetic

[@aaebsssb9914]

Samuel Gregorian The United States are pathetic I agree. They use fahrentheit and feet for temperature and distance and they are inferior to Celsius and Metres

[@elpotter4429]

@@aaebsssb9914 they also use mm/dd/yyyy instead of dd/mm/yyyy that's so illogical

[@aaebsssb9914]

Gos R. yeah

[@epiccollision]

Gos R. mm/dd/yyyy. 10/08/1976. “October the 8th 1976”...that’s why, logic has nothing to do with it language does, that’s just how North America says the date in English, I understand that “8th of October 1976” is valid and understood, just not the custom currently.

[@advait4106]

“Only OG’s remember earth”

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

Hi m87 pfp person

[@efu2046]

I swear this is going to be a meme in about 150 years

[@jcrollah81]

OG parents remember who built Earth

[@scibanana3542]

What year is this from? I'm from the year 36,749,126,892,451 HE. Myself and several others were looking through some outdated files from an outdated digital platform called, what was it... The internet I think. Anyways what is this Earth you speak of?

[@shantichapain8610]

@@scibanana3542 shut upwards and up shut just shut up

[@jamesjohno1180]

I just think it’s crazy that not too long ago they managed to look up and wonder what these things in the sky where and thought it’s absolutely impossible to get close enough to see what they are, now we are looking into how we can land here and sustain life here, I just wish I could see what 500 yesrs into the future will be like if we got there if we have started anything

[@a3.0001]

I cant help but notice the doomguy helmet at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="437">7:17</a>

[@Thatcatmax]

It's master chief from HALO

[@jakegrube9477]

​@@Thatcatmaxno that one is definitely doomguy, master chief is different

[@dvms9292]

Playing a game be like "why is it loading so slow???" "Uh i dont know?" "Where do you live?" "Eastern part of mars" "Bro Your ping is 500000" "yea"

[@realedbroom8235]

underrated comment

[@chonkycat8682]

Actually it's 720,000 Lmao

[@mrsynapse]

It would be more like 1.2e+6 (20 Minutes) for Radio to come from Earth to Mars then other 20 back

[@fallendown8828]

Even if the Earth and Mars is perfectly allined it would take 3 minutes and few seconds to transform data if the settilites has no delay (but they have) so it would be at least 20000 ping and probably 8-10 times more then theay are in opposite side (actually when they are in opposite sides it might not connect at all)

[@CeoMacNCheese]

I wouldn't be surprised if companies begin building satellites and cable and stuff and send pre download them and send them to colonist for entertainment

[@Grandflea02]

"___________ is a horrible idea, let's do it!" *Humanity in a nutshell*

[@jimoroll]

copy, paste

[@bingkoiE]

copy, paste

[@poo1945]

@@bingkoiE shayreek shayrake sharkrake shuttlerake what

[@shivamchouhan5077]

copy, paste

[@Karimasu100]

And mosquitos will haunt us even on mars

[@funkytikigod7039]

I'm reading the hard sci-fi book Red Mars right now and it covers a lot of these topics. Would definitely recommend to anyone interested in a story featuring the struggles of mars colonisation, both practically and mentally.

[@davysmith1934]

'little kiss of blessing' Present for you; Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov. A Wonderful ride, one someone like you will love.

[@Weznut]

that book is one tough read.

[@consuelovalk1507]

Who's the author?

[@funkytikigod7039]

@@consuelovalk1507 Kim Stanley Robinson

[@tiborpurzsas2136]

​@@consuelovalk1507 Isaac Asimov . These are the famous robot novels. The first one is called " The caves of steel" #2 is called " The naked sun" I can't remember what the last one is called

[@GozerTheGozerian]

Correction: We *don't* actually have the technology to get to Mars, much less establish a colony there. There are still huge challenges, like spacecraft radiation shielding, extreme vision degradation/eventual blindness after 6 months in zero G, damage to body systems that involved fluid (again due to low/zero G), and many technical challenges in tech relating to airlocks, robotics, etc. We might have plausible ideas about how to tackle these problems, but you never *have* the technology until you actually have it. The James Webb telescope is a perfect example: You could say we "had" the tech to build and launch the JWST in 1996 when the project began, but we did not, and ultimately it took 25 years and much, much more money than we planned for to make it happen. tl;dr - There's a big difference between having ideas about how to do something and actually possessing the tech to do it.

[@HS-ig4ly]

if we really wanted to we could 100% do it today

[@GozerTheGozerian]

@@HS-ig4ly Check out what NASA's Robert Frost has to say about this kind of claim. He's brutally honest about what it takes, even if money and manpower is not limited. The reality is some of these are really difficult problems to overcome. The eventual blindness, for example. Because we evolved on a planet with 1g, we have evolved in such a way that fluid behind our eyes pools at the bottom of sacs. When humans spend time in zero G, that fluid no longer pools and the shape of our eyes -- including the lenses -- literally deform, causing irreversible vision damage. How would you deal with that? We learned about this problem from long-term ISS missions, which is *precisely* why we have the ISS in the first place: To learn about living -- or spending long amounts of time -- in space. We need to build a moon base first and iron out all the problems we can in a "local" stage rehearsal for an eventual Mars colony. On the moon, help is only three days away and evacuation is a possibility, whereas if something goes wrong on Mars, the soonest we can get there is about 9 months, and that's only if there's perfect timing and an optimal launch window with relation to both planets' orbits. Likewise, on the moon we can learn from our mistakes while we're still protected from radiation. En route to Mars and on Mars itself, we won't be. If you want to make the claim that we could do it today, you need to explain how. The burden of proof is on you.

[@itoborewealth7836]

That's so true I'm retired and I just started investing in these crypto currencies and I've made $29,000 with $3.000.

[@privatemale27]

Tech tends not to appear until there is a demand. If there is a serious desire to go to mars, the tech needed will be invented. Thankfully, SpaceX doesn't work on NASA time schedules. Tethering the ships together and spinning them like a bola for artificial gravity is the simplest option for reducing zero g health issues.

[@pythondrink]

@@itoborewealth7836 that happened

[@liansmith4038]

"Doing X is a horrible idea! Let's do it!" Otherwise known as the entire history of the human race summarized.

[@theminuskai7453]

Because we know no matter how horrible or imposible it looks we will make it sooner or later anyways Humanity could achieve almost anything whit enough time.

[@gearrode]

Nemo Verne it’s worked out, hasn’t it?

[@makaramuss]

"tring to reach china from atlantic ocean is terrible idea" litereally discovers new continent

[@jackdaalfbrainork6392]

Nemo Verne well it work for use so far

[@gearrode]

makaramuss atlantic*

[@AntsCanada]

I bet ants would find a way to survive on Mars!

[@itsnathanhere2578]

Lol maybe

[@Drakonus_]

It's been 2 years since I've watched your channel, so how you been doing?

[@seano.k8694]

Hahaha i watch ur vids

[@seano.k8694]

Hows ur fire ant colony?

[@elizabethbrower711]

What would they look like tho

[@robertknotoff3389]

Underground in a very large cave might give a jump start . With the explorers we should be searching for such a place in advance . Once you get enough people there maybe we can push our limits . To do nothing or not try would be a big mistake in my view . They should use a cave on earth to see what could be done and how it could help .

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

i like the idea of a bunker on mars

[@SciFyerGaming]

As a kid, becoming an astronaut and going to Mars was a dream of mine. As an adult, the idea of being stuck in a tiny dark cramped underground bunker with the same people for years on end sounds like living hell.

[@theamazingcatwizard3654]

Kurzgesagt usually refers people as “Humans,” and has a lot of birds, so is Kurzgesagt secretly a bunch of birds able to talk working together and possibly helping/warning Humans about the near future?

[@houraisanproductions5879]

this theory would be amazing if it was in "Birds Aren't Real" fb group

[@smakutostrange8884]

Love this comment

[@kn-jt9dj]

No wonder they know so much about humans and planet Earth, we've been bamboozled

[@Athenabadassinthearena]

I support this conspiracy theory

[@tasloco.]

actually this is true because birds are actually aliens that came from mars to earth

[@lukelockyer7540]

Pretty sure this is the story of Australia

[@slyseal2091]

Australia had enemy aliens, though

[@Cameron-rs5ze]

@@slyseal2091 *Emus

[@sethorlando]

@@slyseal2091 those "aliens" are the indigenous people of that continent tho, so really the Australians going there are the true aliens...

[@HumanTooth]

Right, so Australia but easier; without all the hostile aliens, that is.

[@slyseal2091]

@@sethorlando I kind of meant that joke with the oversized fauna they are meme'd on with.

[@Tsotha]

Illuminating video. I have been familiar with many of the practical challenges most likely involved in humans conquering Mars but NOT all of those mentioned here until now. I also absolutely love Kurzgesagt's animation style, would love to play a strategy game involving building and managing a Mars base in this art style.

[@xiaohanma2584]

looking back at this animation in 2022 makes me realize how much work kurzgesagt has done in the past 3 years. This video is already pretty neat animation but the ones released in the following years are very noticibly better-crafted.

[@optimusbryan87]

The youtube vids would be titled: "What to bring when visiting mars" "My mars morning routine" "Redecorating my space dome"

[@sanjaykanna4797]

Mars Bathroom Tour and Decoration 😂😂

[@GigiM_winx]

Sooyoung: mukbang with eating fish from mars

[@avidmomokayoitsumareader]

ROBBERY PRANK (IN THE MARS HOOD GONE WRONG MUST WATCH)

[@question7208]

Only real martians will understand these memes

[@phulkumarlama8585]

VISITING MARS (ALMOST DIED)

[@evaristegalois6282]

Kurzgesagt: “Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!” Elon Musk: “They had us in the first half, not gonna lie”

[@ObjectsInMotion]

The Queen of On-point memes!

[@Samantha-jv6xu]

Well just like the narrator said;7:22

[@pan_bacchanal]

loool

[@arsenentibushitse7794]

Just imagine a Bezos-Branson-Musk-Nasa alliance

[@shayneoneill1506]

@@arsenentibushitse7794 If we really must depend on Billionaires, more Branson, less Bezos. Bezos is an awful person. Musk too, but jeepers Bezos really is a piece of work. Bransons a decent person though.

[@TaKiDaily]

lets save the planet in kurzgesagt pfp than living on mars

[@trimmien]

but, that's just earth. ... oooh, i get it.

[@obsessiveduck0911]

I love just binge watching Kurzgesagt videos and coming back to this channel every once in a while to rebingewatch the old and new videos

[@thehand41]

2120 Schools be like: "All right, everyone bring the money for the field trip to Mars by Monday"

[@laggard7173]

"I forgot to let my parents sign it 😳😳"

[@TheRealSkateboard]

There gonna be a plague

[@heartofiron2251]

Billy, where’s your 20 million dollars?

[@theoptimisticnihilist504]

To bad humans will not exist on earth by that time. 😂

[@xeno1912]

I doubt we’ll have field trips but def constant supply runs with faster rockets and some small cities on mars

[@sttattic]

If TikTok is still around, the new trend will be “Take off your helmet on Mars challenge!”

[@teufortimusprime4929]

**freezes**

[@samahabahbeh5867]

Yup

[@HungNguyen-lz5xb]

Just natural selection doing its work.

[@teufortimusprime4929]

@@JoPsyph *😳*

[@blizzard1198]

It's gonna be the best removing idiot's from society

[@irhamghazi6873]

“But we’re stubborn, and we like extreme challenges” true facts and this applies to everyone on earth since ppl always want to get better because we always can!

[@zitianqin3081]

Imagine watching this in the future after Mars has already been settled on to reflect upon how far humanity has come.

[@charliedobbie8916]

"After being stuck indoors in tight spaces without windows, with the same people, performing the same routines day in, day out with little contact from the outside world and a lot to worry about" So, about that...

[@AurorasHymn]

*listen here you little shit*

[@ryansullivan9192]

You perfectly described me, stuck waiting for the pandemic to end

[@grandmacat406]

your lucky yk

[@whiteman1310]

@@ryansullivan9192 never will enjoy life while being safe

[@chrisc.2969]

@@ryansullivan9192 look at this as if it was an exercise to travel to Mars

[@Nobody-ie6pn]

4020: I heard the new kid is from Earth.. that's like.. 3 galaxies away.. in history class they say all humans are from Earth.. let's ask him some questions..

[@royals6413]

I don't like people coming from earth, let's bully him.

[@Nobody-ie6pn]

@@royals6413 I don't like planetary discrimination..

[@jarleskogly8388]

More like "new kid is a refugee from Earth".

[@Brathize]

Let's make them slaves for being earthlings

[@ladofthedamned7796]

Funny thing is. We can't travel to another galaxy without it costing a million years even if we had the speed of light

[@jonathanwheeler8203]

I always appreciate the easter egg nods to video game and pop culture in these videos. Like the Xenomorph in the windowless buildings section or the Doom Guy's face on the Earth and Mars resupply orbits section.

[@oryoruk]

Yeah right! 😂 how about the “Mars Attacks!” guy?

[@oryoruk]

I wonder what we missed

[@sajadentesari820]

Going to mars when all resources are required to make life good on earth is like buying a new house to make a breakfast because your kitchen is dirty and you don’t wanna clean it.

[@AveRay_]

Its not about abandoning earth 🤨

[@sajadentesari820]

@@AveRay_ I didn’t think it was. The resources it takes to go there can be allocated better here. Resources are limited.

[@AveRay_]

@@sajadentesari820 It's easy to target SpaceX specifically for "wasting" resources because they want to research on another planet, but the same could be said for any company. Why is Samsung building phones instead of homes? And your comment does imply the idea that trialing Mars would be like saying "Ah the old one is messed up, lemme get a new one".

[@ramix023]

I feel that my little LIKE, doesn't reflect how much I admire the people who work on these videos. Each video is a work of art.

[@stevedd9725]

This guy uses more effort with his CGI THAN NASA and Fake X

[@lolok6439]

@@stevedd9725 yeah ok

[@niceto_meet_you2528]

Steved D fake X? More like trying to save the human race X

[@mbeecher9921]

make bots!

[@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts]

They've stated they spend about 1200 hours on most of their videos. I agree with your admiration

[@minter66]

Whoever put in the DOOM and Mars Attack references needs a raise.

[@nickh5081]

And the Alien xenomorph!

[@genghiskhan.2265]

You shall be there strength and shield, slayer. Rip and tear until it is done, they only fear you. New objective: RIP and tear. How much Time left: Until it is done

[@andrewzhu5394]

@@genghiskhan.2265 good

[@jaysinha0]

and the Millenium Falcon 3D chess board

[@sensei_monke798]

Time stamp?

[@Sapphirepanda23]

And as always, your videos are so interesting to watch!

[@kianmohammadi1208]

This and all your other videos have helped me so much. you are awesome!!! keep it up!

[@tlotpwist3417]

Mars Trivago review: "Meh. Boring and same food served all day" ~Matt D.

[@rynecadecontreras1241]

LOL

[@matthewchen2232]

Best comment

[@jonesjohnson6301]

LITERALLY the same food! Eat potatoes -> use poop as fertiliser for moar potatoes -> eat potatoes...

[@CatnJune]

😂😂😂😂

[@idontgetjokes6789]

They have to serve the same food, they're only running off the hydroponic system with limited supplies from earth. Did you watch the video?

[@AshenElk]

Humans: "Mars is toxic but somehow we will manage to feed everyone." Also humans: "Earth is a garden of food but we still can't feed everyone."

[@alarmy5211]

Us humans are smart and dumb at the same time. Yeah, we can look at single cells. Oh? Where I put my car keys? No idea. We've gotten to the moon. Hm? Whats that? Where did I leave my phone? No one knows!

[@AshenElk]

@@alarmy5211 "Person is smart. People are stupid."

[@AshenElk]

The sun rendering Earth unviable... will take a billion years. We are going to have bigger problems feeding people here in just 50 years. We have plenty of time to colonise other planets.

[@alarmy5211]

@elijah mikle good point chief, but we may still wanna fix earth AND go to mars!

The second statement is false. We produce plenty of food. Issues of people not being fed stem almost solely from terrible government policy and corruption. Also, "a person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

[@sinception5034]

Can't wait for the first settlers to look inside a cave and find a skeleton with a Viking helmet

[@ladyraynainutaisho3.26]

Like in the movie Total Recall {from the 1990s) or Doom they would build the bases inside the mountains. This way they could have the wide open spaces necessary, to do and have everything it is that they need and want. While still being protected from the outside. And in place of windows, they would have cameras and viewscreens. This way it'll look like you can see outside and see whatever it is that you wanna see {Especially the sky and the Day/Night cycle so you don't get that weird feeling that happens where your body clock goes all topsy turvy). But you're actually not.

[@realjames1]

The death animations of the birds are getting more disturbing as time goes on, I somehow love that

[@enricobianchi4499]

They're all patrons too

[@TheWerelf]

fatality, mars wins

[@Mike-uf1ux]

There was a nice variety of birds in this episode also yeah some of these deaths are getting more disturbing

[@theminuskai7453]

Ikr like geez dude have mercy on them

[@maxleid8451]

Could you make a video about how a planet would be terraformed?

[@smoothcriminal5650]

Life Noggin already made a video on that.

[@cactus6604]

Max leid Game theory has made a video on it. *-Sincerely Austin*

[@DrScoobyStrange]

It’s kinda funny that I was thinking the same thought as I started scrolling

[@dimitrigoryenko2901]

Just play Surviving Mars

[@primodei110]

Play Spore lol

[@milinkerhe]

To me, an average guy, one of the biggest wonders is mankind is our continued unrealistic attitude about colonising space. We might be able to get a few astronauts to survive a several horrific years on the surface of Mars, but to what end? Given the completely inhospitable environment and the logistics in transportation of the sufficient quantity of materials from earth, a self-sustainable station on Mars to be used as a base for exploring further into space is completely unrealistic . Further, given the seemingly impossible complexities involved, the idea that Mars would be a better base than earth to launch missions elsewhere seems more fantastical still. I love my science-fiction, but when it comes to colonising Mars, and I would love to be proven wrong, but think we have confused fiction with reality.

[@justinc9153]

It’s the journey. The problem solving involved with all the challenges faced make humankind more adaptable and resilient. Otherwise we stay on a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra and never learn about all the potentially better ways we could be doing things because we’ve never needed to deal with those kinds of problems before.

[@sledgeinc4528]

Same way our ancestors would never have believed it to be possible for humans to fly look at us now. A viable yet distant future would be to use genetic engineering with tools like CRISPR to modify humans to be adaptable to space

[@cabo1656]

I get what are you saying, to my knowledge we still need to develop some key technologies and better defined plans, but when Kennedy gave the deadline for getting to the moon by humans, some scientists on the field believed to be pure fantasy(Not because it was theoretically impossible but precisely because there were too many practical challenges). And even thou the Moon Landing wouldn't have been possible without the astronomical(heh) amount of founding because of the Cold War, you always need the passionate scientist and engineers to make the advances that funding alone can't get you. And while you can say that we didn't gain anything from the moon landing, I'd say that is totally false because 1st, which is often pointed out, technologies developed for space are some of the more useful tech for us people down here on earth. But even more important than that imo, samples and rocks from the moon help us to understand how the earth was created, how the solar system was created and how the universe was created or, to some degree, how the universe works. So I believe some of that discoveries will happen with Mars, even considering that we have been exploring and taking some samples for years now. And yeah, the way Mars can be a great base for further space explorations is something like when you make a travel in car with your destination 12hrs+ away. It would be nice to have more fuel and supplies somewhere on the way(I know you don't consume fuel on Space like on a place with constant gravity or atmosphere but still). Talking about that, the other reason is precisely Mars have noticeable less gravity than Earth and a super thin atmosphere, those are the kind of conditions make it way easier to launch rockets, the same reason why the moon could be a great exploration base too, the moon even having "easy" access to produce rocket fuel and water. And this bases shouldn't be rebundant either, with more infrastructure out there more versatile and fastest space exploration should be. Of course, even though all of this is true or possibly, it's theoretical for now but sometimes humanity makes big jumps between what is theoretical and practical, on the last century this happened very often. In fact, there are stories that sci-fi inspired future scientists to discover or explore those topics(maybe a silly example). I think is obvious I'm all for colonizing Mars if possible, but I understand that it may be impossible now or forever. But Im sure the future astronauts will be some that understand the risks better than anyone, on the mission to Mars, because other than train like crazy is good to remember most astronauts have PhD in Physics or Engineering, so they should have the risks crystal clear compared to us.

[@milinkerhe]

@@cabo1656 thanks for your well written comment. I am opening to the idea that it could happen, but I really think we are so far away from a colony on Mars, a small, cramped base for a few brave astronauts perhaps, but they are very different things.

[@cabo1656]

@@milinkerhe haha I admit I'm a bit of a dreamer for the potential science, that is why I like to study it(thou my major level of expertise is biology lol). But yeah, that it's why like to look back at different eras of great discoveries on knowledge from different cultures, and all of them put great importance on the knowledge it self on some way and/or on the people that created knowledge(a lot of different astronomical knowledge was created by astrologers or some form of shamans, that originally wanted to study the sky for predictions or religion). And well, we get the correlation that when we emphasize the importance of knowledge, knowledge is created exponentially, maybe is kinda obvious but I think is still important to keep on mind. And about Mars, yes of course, to my understanding the more optimistic projections are that a colony would be in various decades and other stimates are 100+ years. I guess my point is that I want it to be missions to Mars as soon as possible because that is what make us improve, the technology and science(of course "ASAP" while mataining security standards, but it's always a risk being sloppy and the people in charge must be always vigilant). I mean I know there have been a lot of advances, but even then it's not secret that NASA has been on something like stagnation for many years. And without clear objectives or missions, the technology or science never will advance as fast as it could. In a more active environment, one never know what crazy technology can come out, but again I'm fully aware about the current projections just that there is way to better the chances and I personally believe that as soon as humanity hit milestone on Space its better for everyone, hopefully. Ups, sorry for the long text, I think it's exciting talking about this stuff.

[@Krydolph]

Is there a followup video? I would like one where we assume, we have done this, set up the working bases, maybe cities! How would you go about teraforming it?

[@RealSkelzore]

Mars: *Exists* Humanity: _It's free real esta...-_

[@Monarch_Prime]

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[@RealSkelzore]

@@Monarch_Prime The cut off is intentional, it's supposed to symbolize the fact that whoever was meming it up on mars died suddenly to one of the many, many, many potential causes for death described in the video. It's not free, it'll cost tons of time, rescources and potentially lives.

[@Monarch_Prime]

Dude im just messing around dont judge Y so serious man

[@RealSkelzore]

@@Monarch_Prime I just wanted to explain because I worried initially that my stupid joke wouldn't be understood initially. I wasn't offended, don't worry my mans 👍🏽 It's the internet though, I can see very easily why it could be read that way.

[@elias5804]

@@RealSkelzore i dont know who to r/whoosh here.

[@hydrochloricacid2146]

Lvl 1 : moon landing Lv 35 : Mars base Lv 99: intergalactic domination that's how space works

[@pancytryna9378]

Lvl:1 Moon landing Lvl 35: Mars base Lvl 99: Intergalactic domination Lvl 40 000: Empire of Man That's how Emperor works

[@KateeAngel]

More like: moon landing, Mars colony, Ah fck it, lets go back!

[@tonigym3061]

@@pancytryna9378 Empire of Mann. Ftfy

[@pancytryna9378]

@@tonigym3061 I don't understand. I wrote something wrong?

[@firmanimad]

Space Marines when

[@nacl4988]

Its probably ideal to put the colony in a large cave of some sort, There should be less severe dust storms, and slightly less radiation, And the energy is likely coming from mainly Nuclear power as you suggested. General stability of weather from strong winds would also help keep the habitats intact. It might also reduce energy usage from heating slightly, from less wind in a deep cave

[@missingno11]

"Yo what country you from?" "Mars"

[@stormnova9757]

Could you make a video about terraforming please? I'm really curious about it.

[@s4dpolarbear336]

This

[@stormnova9757]

@@s4dpolarbear336 huh?

[@s4dpolarbear336]

@@stormnova9757 this is like a "me too"

[@trinosan]

There's that documentary I think it's called "Man of Steel"

[@unabirrashorts]

D IT

[@stuffmorestuff6647]

Just remember when your trying to go to Mars *The sun is a deadly lazer*

[@airbornesquirrel]

Not anymore there is a blanket

[@airbornesquirrel]

@Holly Seibel yes of course

[@gerald02121]

@Holly Seibel how would they have written that response if they hadn't got the reference

[@asiangameroffpsroleplaydri8818]

Ah yes [REACTED] reference

[@joaozaoboladin]

,-,

[@gamimating9659]

Respect the cameraman for somehow going at the speed of light in space

[@user-qp5ik1ke9x]

IS ACT-CLIP (IF D0NT C0MPREHEND ISNT MY PR0BLEM) *PS* M0RTALS WILL THRIVEINGLY-SURVIVE AT MARS

[@vishalmahato8954]

Really appreciate the whole team for being so creative. Let me know if I can contribute or help in making such amazing vector graphics.

[@amyychu3157]

*A Mars Base is possible, but it needs a Moon Base!* NASA & SpaceX: yes

[@evgenigeorgiev9002]

True story.

[@Someone-sq8im]

Also Mars One

[@thedukeofidoicy1576]

Nah Elon is currently making Cat Girls to be in real-life.

[@graftongodofmemes]

Lol

[@Polyethylenester]

Amyychu :3 I need youog

[@sebasculin3739]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="426">7:06</a> I like how you depicted the crew's doom.

[@Ahrpigi]

Icy what you did there

[@-Slinger-]

Ah, yes. I was thinking Wolfenstein, but Doom makes more sense 😅

[@cameron7374]

@@-Slinger- Considering Doomguys helmet is cracked in the next scene, it's probably doom.

[@goldsrcorsource2551]

h

[@lilysantiago679]

I said humanity is not doomed!!!

[@user-yw2tz9hh6l]

Thank you for this atmospheric and educative video!

[@WomanSlayer69420]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="345">5:45</a> to fix the gravity problem, just put on weighted clothing that weighs twice as much as you when you're on Mars so you feel normal. No need to exercise constantly.

[@fancyf33t295]

Stuck in a small room, no windows, seeing the same faces, doing the same repetitive motions? Man, teenage me would be great at Mars-ing. *After seeing all of the replies* yes....... Video games..... That's exactly what I meant...... Nothing else.....

[@guitosilva5055]

That's so meee!! My only question would be can I bring my PS4? Oh and don't forget to leave a gym so I can work on those muscles in order to stay healthy because of gravity 😂😂😂

[@ajlucky0076]

HELL YEAH

[@guitosilva5055]

@@livethefuture2492 who's the person targeted?

[@OriginalDiddy]

They just need vanilla WOW and a couple crates of mountain dew livewire

[@typhoon_abm5691]

@@guitosilva5055 lmao better have a library of fun games and not worry about multiplayer for a couple years

[@evaristegalois6282]

Other scientists: “Let’s colonize Mars” Elon Musk: 👏Meme👏Review👏

[@sammaguilar5105]

Evariste Galois two claps

[@Dzeividz]

Shut up

[@ifrazali3052]

Musk isn't actually practicing scientist He is businessman

[@TheDipperPinez27]

Mars👏review👏

[@samvortex4136]

Someone kick this dumb fuck out of youtube

[@norahlia4575]

I hope my mental health will be good enough one day. This makes me more motivated to heal than anything else has.

[@NotZeko]

from discovering fire and stone tools, to creating fusion power and terraforming another planet. amazing how life can change and adapt

[@lander77477]

We haven't actually invented practical fusion power nor have we invented a way to terraform another planet, so... nothing amazing has actually happened yet

[@skidssomethinh2838]

This just made me appreciate earth a lot more

[@clarawesley6097]

We should focus on saving it from climate change before we move on to other planets to be honest

[@reptilefisch]

@@clarawesley6097 I hate this argument. It's not like 7 billion people can focus on the same thing. We can work on both saving our habitat and building a new one at the same time, howboutdat?

[@lonestarr1490]

@@reptilefisch Currently, it seems like we can't do one or the other.

[@dantemonterey1507]

@@clarawesley6097 yeah fixing the earth seems like a cake walk next to terraforming mars

[@Arigator2]

And Mars is downright hospitable compared to everywhere else. Venus would melt your spaceship and Titan is freezing cold and rains methane. But we can't even Terraform Earth. Lets do that before we think about Mars.

[@kuraddohikari]

"they need to be determined, psychologically stable, and competent" ok, so not me

[@edududu5274]

Same

[@bladesofderp4649]

mate ur literally a gem alien

[@kevino1489]

I can go to the Mars

[@drxpykid3504]

Bucciarati how's my son Giorno doing

[@kuraddohikari]

@@drxpykid3504 haven't seen him since I died

[@chree5804]

Do you think you could make a video on how to terraform Mars, like you did with Venus?

[@johnray854]

I love rediscovering this channel ❤️

[@Fareeda212]

Imagine people in future being like, “oh I’m from earth”, “oh I’m from mars”, and people taking holidays to different planets

[@jeanhenrique8427]

"shit, i had all requirements for that job, but that's in the UK and I'm on Ceres"

[@prospero4060]

The thought of this so super exciting tho!! But you'd probably have to be extremely wealthy if you wanted to spend your summer break on Mars

[@jaimeleschats5543]

That moment when the local hologram shop is older than the first colony on pluto.

[@Aussie17]

That would be impossible because of the different gravitational forces, but if we overcome that somehow, that’d be amazing

[@Adriel028]

dont get your hopes up, you op probably dead when that time comes. so why not focus on the now.

[@MarkLee1]

- There a plenty of *people* willing to do that work... Shows birds...

[@aetherresonant9079]

Birds are people too

[@Shreksophonefan2018]

What? Its nice to have pets...

[@MNightbirb]

Oh

[@Squirtle1566]

*visible confusion*

[@xavier4563]

@@MNightbirb heh found you again

[@yashwanthchilaka7846]

The frozen co2 for shielding the habitats is a good idea. But the temperature probably won't match because co2 freezes at around -78°C and the average temperature on Mars is around -65°C. I don't know if we can add impurities to change the freezing point but I'm just curious to know

[@kingdavid6794]

curious, could the statically charged mars soil be usable as a small energy source? i mean i probable be insignificant amount but still

[@krowko]

mars: *does literally everything to show that it’s uninhabitable and dangerous* elon musk: haha rocket go brrr

[@unstable8968]

Lmao

[@corvettegaming1615]

elon musk at the best.

[@jjpepper7071]

Corvette Gaming1 its?

[@corvettegaming1615]

@@jjpepper7071 oops wait lemme change

[@AdvayRajoria]

@@corvettegaming1615 the? I think at his

[@themadkraken1912]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="369">6:09</a> this is just school with less gravity.

[@Fish_152]

Fish

[@piingufps]

Haha, it's funny because it's true.

[@MrKobus-rz4qy]

Lmao

[@mbeecher9921]

nice

[@Jensenrobinb]

*Y E S*

[@themanoloudiochant8950]

I love the little doom reference at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="562">9:22</a>

[@phineascampbell3103]

The first people who are sent to Mars, those pioneering braves competing in the harsh conditions, they should be people from challenging climates here. Basically people who already have experience surviving in hostile, unpleasant, deprived and unlovable parts of the planet. Desert tribe folk, Inuits, residents of Hull and Birmingham and Banbury.

[@thebhut3446]

NYC and LA people need not apply ... lol

[@matthewgoodman7588]

They made the Dyson Sphere sound easier than colonizing Mars.

[@mikeynewPFF]

because we're probably not gonna build a dyson sphere anyway. might as well just fantasize a bit

[@jorenbaplu5100]

The dyson sphere doesn't need to hold humans, humans are hard to keep alive

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

Type 2 civilizations can figure things out way easier than stupid Type 1 civilizations 😂

[@lordofthecats6397]

@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 Or *gasp* lowly Type 0 civilizations

[@patstaysuckafreeboss8006]

@@lordofthecats6397 Were closer to 1 than 0 so I round up.

[@Chris______.]

In the future this is going to be a racial thing like “earth people” and “mars people” Edit: I didn’t mean to start a political debate in the replies

[@borisjevric5287]

There’s a great tv show called The Expanse and it’s about exactly that!

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

*Earthlings *Martians

[@SenatorMorbstrong]

Humans are really stupid beings.

[@gamingthisera6339]

Fuck leftist, they're the one who really want to differentiate people

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

GamingThisEra no need to make this political

[@masdesmond_art8396]

If there would be a management game made by Kurzgesagt that will make you build and try to civilize planets, defend/befriend aliens like a Kairosoft ish game but in their artstyle I'd play it or buy it :

[@jeffjests2764]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="322">5:22</a> i like the attention to detail with the clothespin

[@WhiteEagle8888]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="251">4:11</a> I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere

[@alptug2530]

It's treason then.

[@Fangoros]

You were the chosen one!

[@petezah4597]

Anakin, stop panicking

[@thesuperiorbench6307]

It’s over Anakin. I have the high ground

[@conscioussubconsciousness1976]

Its over Anakin, i have the *Mars* ground, don't try it.

[@gnomusgang8658]

Me after playing surviving mars: *"Years of academy training wasted!"*

[@Ripurlife]

*well spent

[@khanmaykr4955]

Green planet

[@vizthex]

same lmao

[@quackat1110]

Bought Calendar 12022 from kurzgesagt shop since last October, haven't arrived yet. Always "on the way". Now I can not even track it using UPS store tracking code any more. Very "professional" !!!

[@astralis3557]

This makes u realize how perfect our planet is for life , so enjoy it while u can

[@noahgonzales4554]

My biggest issue with colonizing Mars already is that we haven’t even built a base on the moon yet.

[@anwpecirotan]

@rainpron also China Lunar Program Chang'e and teaming with Russia to make base in southpole Called ILRS, i think we Will get sequel of space race

[@BigJMC]

In all honesty a moon base is harder to maintain as it’s in no atmosphere and moon dust is so fine that it gets everywhere and into everything which damages everything including critical components, it’s much finer than Mars dust. There were actually healthy risks for the astronauts that landed on the moon because they would breathe it into their lungs which would damage their lungs. So its easier to get a lunar base to the moon but its harder to maintain while its harder to get a base to mars but easier to maintain.

[@miniwhiffy3465]

@@anwpecirotan really?

[@Sebb-hc1il]

@@anwpecirotan I wonder how's that going considering the whole ukraine situation

[@joacoliska7640]

what??

[@crowsenpai5625]

“It will be gruesome work to establish the infrastructure we need. *But we’re stubborn* “ humanity in a nutshell

[@Rrtnns]

As if being stubborn is a guarantee of success...

[@ulisesdover9124]

@@Rrtnns It's a guarantee that humanity will throw enough corpses at the problem to figure something out. That something may be that we need to push technology further (improve satelites and robotics enough to send satelites and RC droids to do all the prep work _before_ actually sending settlers), or to create better ways of minery energy production before making bases any further than the moon.

[@Grisht_]

I looked at the comment right as he said it

[@putrarwa7759]

We spit on death's face

[@kesselsol]

The duty of the living is the live the will to live and advance for the dead.

[@brianjames7607]

Barring any major discoveries and/or invention, space exploration such as this will only do the opposite of what it claims the goals are. That being space exploration will only waste resources of this planet/environment if the destination planet has no additional resources to specifically offer humans.

[@brianjames7607]

@@ts2495 Mars??? Did you watch the video? Or are you referring to other exoplanets thousands of years away without super fast, strong, zero mass space ships and fuel?

[@glitter_w]

와 짱 좋은 과학채널이네요 구독 때렸슴다

[@paulmahoney7619]

“We choose to go to the moon within this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

[@voidmother6239]

As a fellow subject of the imperium of man I would like to say Amen

[@MarpoLoco]

Little catch playing children in EVA suits on Mars, THAT will be hard. During failures on Earth mean blue eyes and grazes on the knees, on Mars failures mean their death! Settling on Mars means growing children there. In a closed narrow tube ;-). With many many switches and other very interesting stuff. Good luck, guys! ;-)

[@paulmahoney7619]

Thomas John nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[@tlshortyshorty5810]

For the Emperor!

[@kronksstronkstonks6360]

Oh god imagine being stuck in a confined space with someone else's little shit of a child. I would quite literally kick his ass into another galaxy. He'd get there eventually.

[@mallardduck2085]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="370">6:10</a> Hey, this is happening right now!

[@keinfanboy7984]

True 😂

[@JellyAntz]

brruuuuhhhh

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

Thanks to a new variant identified in the UK this could get much, much worse before the spring. We don’t know if the vaccines will work against the new variant.

[@pyroblade888]

Lol

[@RoscoesRiffs]

"Gruesome." Truth. EVERYTHING outside our terran atmosphere is there to slaughter us. We should send robots.

[@Hollowdude15]

Awesome video man and I hope everybody has a peaceful day :)

[@Fomites]

Humans colonising Mars in the next several decades will almost certainly fail with tragic and disturbing results.

[@laclarous9282]

Martians be like: *Why building an Earthbase is not going to end well*

[@Burn_Angel]

"Lots of hairless apes trying to disect you, 0/10 won't go again"

[@jeoffiancaballero6319]

Martians: We need to do it for our brothers in area51

[@candlestyx8517]

"Humans"

[@criscabantog667]

This is where the area51 aliens got to.........

[@saswatamohanta1023]

cuz the earth is flat duh

[@d_daeani7998]

" covering the dry ice with a meter of dirt..." Now we know where they're hiding. Case closed.

[@eniotanaka2229]

Deon Dean exactly what i was thinking

[@TheRealSkateboard]

When I read this, he said the same exact thing at the same time

[@burdiegt]

@@TheRealSkateboard same

[@mr.q337]

They live in underground tunnel confirmed

[@SCRKT007]

Imma clap sum martian puss

[@user-hk8ti8po4b]

Build a city on Mars! Many people seem to be interested in this topic because it has been frequently featured in sf novels and movies recently. It still seems like a myth now, but I think it came true soon.

[@maaczmoric656]

Geat narration, great video

[@3meyc]

So many Easter eggs, I like it :^) 1. "Total Recal" movie (1990) - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="152">2:32</a> 2. "Alien" movie - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="226">3:46</a> 3. "Mars attacks!" movie - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="273">4:33</a> 4. "The Martian" movie - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="322">5:22</a> 5. "Doom" (first, indeed) game - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="427">7:07</a> 6. "Halo" game helmet - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="436">7:16</a> Something else?

[@lucasebenau4309]

There is also an Adventure Time reference at 7:31. The flying crystal headed man

[@BalgothTheVile]

7:16 might be doom helmet

[@vasishtsaiboreddy3740]

That's a doom helmet

[@ryanhunter818]

6. It's not Halo but Doomguy's helmet :)

[@tojiroh]

Didn't notice the helmet, good one! ^.^

[@WetWorm]

Then we'll have people calling each other Martians and Earthlings instead of Europeans and Americans.

[@hollowhoagie6441]

I'd rather be called terran than earthling personally

[@cesarrocco103]

@@hollowhoagie6441 terran works for me

[@memespressions9235]

WetWorm reminds me of the expense

[@abeke5523]

@@hollowhoagie6441 wait terra => Terraria => Terrarians Mars => Minecraft => Minecraftians Earthlings and Martians should be called Terrarians and Minecraftians

[@goldengaruda8935]

Oh shoot your right. It'd cause another revolutionary war excepts mars would probably lose because it has no resources.

[@domxem5551]

Some complain that we even don’t have a moon base yet…. But what about traveling to the bottom of our own oceans?

[@Fi3dish28]

We may be able to avoid the window problem with lead shielding and lead glass. Which would probably have to be rather thick.

[@alexrator7674]

A quote in Chinese: Plans are brilliant, reality is terrible.

[@Bahamuttiamat]

Exactly this, the elephant in the room is money? Who exactly is paying for all these voyages lol? We havent been back to the moon and it's by far our closest satellite.

[@Alexander_Kale]

Have another idea the chinese seem to like: If you go at all, might as well go big. Among the top ten solar manufacturers, there are quite a few chinese companies. SImilar, most of the problems a mars base could face have their roots in doing it piece by piece. throw ten times the money at the problem, then you have ten times the people on mars and a tenth of the problems.

[@dionisiskef4922]

Excuse me, this is english. Get your facts straight

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@Bahamuttiamat yes, try getting on a big cruise ship today without paying big bucks. They may ask for volunteers to build stuff at first, give them hazard pay and such cuz so many will die horribly each year. When all done, only the super rich will pay their way to vacation on Mars, you know celebs who need bragging rights, just like they do here on Earth right now. So kiddies save your pennies, or become a movie star! LOL.

[@Alexander_Kale]

@@dionisiskef4922 At the moment anyway. If pewdiepie is any indication, we will all have to learn Hindu before long...

[@telisto]

could create fake windows with a camera outside an a monitor inside. super easy barely an inconvenience

[@yYSilverFoxYy]

Come on, they could install tiny window-cleaners on the cameras too. Nevertheless, I think they should create an atmosphere with robots before sending any humans to live there. Colonizing Mars might sound cool, but at this point we could only send people to their deaths with no profit whatsoever. Humans are super-expensive to sustain on hostile planets. Sending a group to set up atmosphere creating equipment then bringing them back would be the sensible first step. ...But when has humanity EVER been sensible? T-T

[@relentlessfrags4914]

Making references from other KZbin channels is *TIGHT*

[@satoriG]

With a wider field of view and options like magnification and alternate wavelength cameras. Way better than a window

[@drakep.5857]

@Joe Sanchez oof

[@mrdiez8496]

@@relentlessfrags4914 whoopsi!!!

[@NatanArk]

What software did you use to make such amazing graphics. I love the colors. I am creating a video game and would like to incorporate these colors and graphic style into it.