Can We Really Terraform Mars, Venus, And The Moon With Today's Technology?

Can We Terraform Mars?
Mars has been a spot of attraction for everyone on Earth recently. You might have heard of organisations planning to go on mars. But for just a normal person, what will that realistically look like?
A lot of organisations have sent their probes on mars and many more are planning. It has also been a favourite theme in movies, with martians coming to our planet. But the reality is a bit different. Humans are the ones going to mars and even capture it. The main question today is, How? And once we get there, how are we going to survive Long-term? The red planet’s atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. The surface is very cold and the gravity is only about 38% that of earth. All conditions not favourable for human life. But they can be changed. NASA has already announced its plan to send humans to mars by 2030, and SpaceX plans to do so by 2024 only.
Terraforming Venus quickly? Fascinating, but..
Why do we spend so much time looking for life on Mars when the red planet has had liquid water for only 400 million years... while here "two steps" there is Venus that has hosted oceans for three billion years and no one considers her?
Isn’t it that we overlooked it a little too much the planet that before the space age was still considered fit for life and perhaps covered by oceans?
. Since the mid-1990s, US scientists alone have submitted nearly 30 Venus proposals to NASA. None has been approved.
It was during the space race that scientists discovered on Venus a torrid and toxic world. That could explain why interest in Venus dwindled. Scientists quickly realized that this planet would not be a home for future human exploration, nor an outlet on which to search for life. It would be downright difficult to study at all, even for short amounts of time.
Can we terraform the Moon?
Indeed, you've heard a lot about terraforming Mars but little about the Moon, and it's normal to hear about bombarding it with water-filled meteors like it was an easy task, looking to turn it blue and then green, but how true is this? What can we do to terraform the Moon? Is it viable?
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00:00 Intro
00:02 The Reality Of Terraforming Mars
10:42 Terraforming Venus quickly? Fascinating, but...
25:02 Can We Terraform The Moon?
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[@royalscot4116]

If we can't fix our own planet, how can we fix any other?

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I think you got it wrong....we messed with our own planet...now lets go and mess with another one :D

[@davidstout1847]

It's like the mechanic who doesn't fix his own car

[@ricklayeux5688]

Why not start terraforming the world's deserts first, see how that goes.

[@Atentoamusicamedianews1]

i wasgoing comment this

[@LUPINEMAXX]

@@Atentoamusicamedianews1 I was going to comment maybe try terraforming Chicago first!

[@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj]

Sadly, terraforming desserts can have consequences. Like if u plant trees on Sahara, it might kill the Amazon forest. So, we need to take care of that too. But yes, I agree, planting trees in Sahara should prove to be helpful in the long run because barren deserts are pretty useless and the life forms there are scarce

[@mikeofalltrades3933]

@@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj Deserts might seem useless to us, but they are not for the planet. They reflect quite a lot of the sun's rays back to space helping maintain the planet's temperature according to science studies.

[@1dvs_bstd]

@@mikeofalltrades3933 True, not to forget the species that have learned to make it their home. On the other hand, a few thousand years ago it was a tropical rainforest.. and in a few thousand more, it will be tropical again. And if Scientists are already preparing for Martian missions by training in the Atacama Desert, might as well try to see if they can terraform a little piece of it.

[@florianbuerzle2703]

Hmmm, ok, that means SpaceX has about 9 months to: build a Starship that does not explode, invent a technology to refuel it in actual space (not in CGI space) and figure out how humans won‘t die during the trip (but maybe the last one is optional according to their mission plan which I don‘t know). Easy! 😂

[@DJ-tt7tq]

No chance today, possibly in the distant future, but the Earth is our home.

[@KrDr-gq1sf]

So we go and terraform a planet that won't sustain us as long as our current home, deal with all the issues that will try and make that happen. As well, we'll deal with the same mindset from some people who currently disregard all the science that we have, to try and make the earth a better place. The amount of financial commitment it will take to make this happen, could probably solve all of the Earth problems, including more education about what we are currently facing, for those who don't give a hoot about Earth's issues.

[@InsaneCuriosity]

You make a valid point.

[@addyd.4621]

i think its better that we save our planet Earth instead of spending so much on research and going to a new planet...

[@kennyj43]

Again, the binary view. This or that. We are not that limited. We can and need to do both. In fact, both efforts can help and support each other. Remember how many benefits we have gained from the space program ranging from microwave ovens to Velcro. Let’s not be myopic.

[@amangogna68]

Great video and information !

[@ryangoodwin3799]

SpaceX by 2024?!?!? Huh? 😂

[@sean3056]

Yup! I thought I was hearing things incorrectly! 🤣 it would definitely be awesome if SpaceX and/or NASA was landing people on Mars this year but obviously this might be a bit off.. Maybe in a decade or two or three…..

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

I think Elon meant he's going to send Bill Gates's pregnant avatar there

[@thastinger345]

Lets try it on the earth first

[@unknownplayer2075]

All the people in the comments are very negativ. We as a species have already evolved very far, further then any know species (intelligently that is). In the last 100 years we had more technical innovation then in the last 1000 years together. We already have multiple robots on Mars and have been on the moon DECADES ago with old and relatively simple technology. Just thinking of the development in the next twenty years is making me excited. If there is a will there is a way. I have no doubt that we will have started terraforming the moon in the next fifteen to twenty years. Can't wait to see how far humanity will come in my lifetime.

[@kennyj43]

Right there with you! Too many folks are too blinkered and shortsighted in terms of what is possible and what has already been accomplished. Humanity WILL explore space and we WILL settle Mars and elsewhere. At the same time we must clean up our home planet 🌍 and take better care of it. It is not and never has been a binary choice.

[@kayakMike1000]

Why would we throw all those resources down a gravity well? There will be far more people on stations, its just not economically reasonable to dump valuable things in an impoverished market.

[@XPhaededX]

Terraform Earth!

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

California and France first

[@steves3422]

"Can We Really Terraform Mars, Venus, And The Moon With Today's Technology?" No, not even close........

[@keithcook3908]

We can do anything we set our minds to do

[@kennyj43]

The tech is evolving all the time, and things we once thought were impossible are gradually becoming more and more possible. Remember, there was a time when the thought of going to the moon, or creating space stations was the province of SF writers only. Settling Mars is a question of 'when' not 'if'. Sooner or later, it will happen. I'd love to see the start of it happening in my lifetime.

[@FredrickWendroff-um2kn]

When , If ....but I think why is more important. It is a fact that public support for these things is waning ....folks want to know why , hell I want to know why it's worth it. I have yet to get a good answer.

[@dennissmith7214]

I would to but sadly we won’t!! 😕

[@kennyj43]

@@dennissmith7214 Unfortunately 😩!

[@kennyj43]

@@FredrickWendroff-um2kn Pure curiosity is enough of a reason for me. Humans will explore space and live on other planets for the same reasons we left Africa thousands of years ago; why generations of explorers left their home countries to explore other parts of our planet at great risk of life and limb, in ships that were death traps in many ways and far less prepared than today’s astronauts are for venturing into our solar system and eventually beyond. It will happen. The foundations are being laid right now, so yes, it is when not if it is going to happen.

[@davidjiannotti1537]

Drag one of Jupiter's moons into mars orbit and job will be done.

[@fredflintlocks9445]

We struggle to lift tin can rockets out of earths gravity well, pushing a moon out of Jupiter's is so far out of our capacity it would be like a caveman trying to build that rocket.

[@wolfshanze5980]

10:21 That's now how the comas work in 250,000 people... I lost all faith in this video when I saw that.

[@fordraven5884]

Mars Beautiful place

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

Any place is beautiful until humans arrive

[@NeetchianQueen]

Restoring our Own earth and cleaning it up with the most effective tech and old fashioned ingenuity first, also How can Mars magnitosphere be restored? and How long? regenerating land is not that hard. Farmers and preppers know the positive growing practices. Composting would b key to restabilizing the soil and plants use CO2. This could help with protected environment to later be expanded into the real environment once again.

[@barracuda861]

Will they eventually bring animals like cow or chickens. Their manure could enhance the Martian soil. They can bring them as eggs or embryos and start them on Mars.Also what about things like earthworms or other beneficial ground bugs.

[@kosmique]

Hahahaha if they could bring cows to Mars to graze in its sands then what are we terraforming for? Cows in spacesuits... doing what exactly!?

[@raydawson2767]

It depends on wether these planets have a magnetic field and an atmosphere to keep in the gases to then allow the growth of trees and greenery to produce oxygen

[@robinwolstenholme6377]

so if we make the planet spin faster we solve globle warming It would affect temperature patterns and atmospheric circulation systems. With shorter days, the land surface would cool faster at night, while warming periods would be shorter. This could alter wind patterns, cloud formation, and precipitation distribution in different regions of the world.

[@ryangoodwin3799]

We would need to be a type 2 civilization to achieve feats that grand.

[@MrMatbat1]

And nothing would grow so we would starve

[@nw2861]

Mars is already home to the Adeptus Mechanicus, let them cook.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

HELL YES! LMAO :D

[@stevespeissegger1369]

The first Martians may want to take fertilized, chicken or quail eggs. Once they hatch, they would provide food and fertilizer. Also, fig trees are hearty and resiliant. They should be considered.

[@mikeofalltrades3933]

Short answer, No! not with current tech

[@XenoRaptor-98765]

Agree because it will at least decades or centuries worth of trial and error for developing, researching and perfecting the process.

[@FredrickWendroff-um2kn]

Don't need any tech , of course there is no need to go anywhere. We have and have had all the tech we need to have paradise right here , but we choose not to. Like they say , wherever you go , there you are.

[@ricklayeux5688]

Well if it can't be done on Earth it certainly can't be done on Mars.

[@rickmarkgraf2617]

Terra forming Venus requires new tech with complimentary results, such as multiple rocket engines based on acid phase reactions that can independently land and anchor, with a large cargo of alkaline salts that react with the acid atmosphere. These engines would not only neutralize the atmosphere, but gradually affect the planets rotation toward an ideal. By the time the atmosphere is neutralized, the reaction would reduce and the salts would become neutral, but the rotation will have changed. Massive scale, but anything would be. At least half the fuel is already there and impact would be compounded.

[@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj]

Finally, someone who thinks deeply

[@Lord_Hamlet_III]

24:01 humanity becoming the Borg confirmed

[@GadreelAdvocat]

Mass drivers on the poles of the moon could send lots of supplies to Mars on a regular basis. Yet, such infrastructure would need to be built on the moon.

[@PaulClipMaster]

By 2024 and 2030? Cutting it kind of close right now.

[@frazmeup]

Is Titan more plausible for future colonization once we advance robotics and AI to a certain point? I can see it happen.

[@frankiepeno4420]

You've watched the movie,Titan, one too many times. Just kidding. 😂

[@frazmeup]

@@frankiepeno4420 That movie was so ass ngl 😂😂

[@OtherworldJudge89]

Space X is not sending humans to mars this year lol

[@deanroberts1275]

Ikr

[@SoapinTrucker]

Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson says, if we can terraform another planet, then we can terraform Earth back to normal, so let's do that! 👍

[@ericlipps9459]

What do we mean by "normal"? Over the ages, Earth has varied from a giant iceball with oceans frozen from pole to pole to a steaming jungle world with no ice caps and temperature shotter than anything seen today.

[@viperswhip]

We cannot do that, it is actually easier to terraform another planet because we don't have to worry about the baking period that would kill everyone on Earth if we did it here.

[@thomasbeachnaw9019]

The real question is do we really want to colonize Venus? I see merit in mars because going farther away from the sun leaves us prepared for the expansion of the sun. I personally would only have specific mining colony's if even needed on Venus as we have to abandon it some day.

[@aaronhiggs]

I mean we are good for billions of years. Lol

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Good question and I think Mars is the best option if we consider how fast technology has advanced just in the last 50 years alone. So say in a million years the human race would have likely found and settled on a habitable planet or possibly even constructed a Mass-habitation platform capable of moving through the cosmos picking up materials as it goes.

[@scottwalter9399]

NASA can’t get back to the moon without the lander falling over after a 50 year absence. Perhaps we could terraform other planets but only through private ventures.

[@the_kombinator]

You're describing Blade Runner. No thanks, why not take care of the planet we have? We're nowhere near the tech needed to visit another planet (with meatbags inside), let alone colonize it.

[@pleb989]

You do know that lander was made and operated by Intuitive Machines (a private company) and not NASA right?

[@ericlipps9459]

@@the_kombinator Why not do both?

[@the_kombinator]

@@ericlipps9459 If we can get humans to cooperate and share resources, that would be ideal. Currently we're sitting in a wasteful mess with three wars on our hands, what do you think the priority given the "human factor" should be?

[@conandis5542]

No matter how much of a good job you do to change (Terraform) the surface of another planet, the rays of the Sun will destroy everything unless you work out a way to create a magnetic field to protect it! 😉

[@danieloneill9093]

The premise of this is that we can't create a device that creates an artificial magnetic field that mimics our magnetic field on earth. I'm not aware of anyone working on any such device. If it did exist, it would be a game changer. We could terraform multiple planets in our solar system, not just mars. But the stuff out in the Kuiper belt. But, I mean....how would we go about doing it?

[@kevanhubbard9673]

No we can not if we ever could is another thing but it seems unlikely due to the different distances from the Sun of Venus and Mars.The Moon is the same distance as Earth but is probably too small to hold on to an atmosphere.Not to miss Mercury,a magnet field but rather too close to the Sun for comfort!

[@MikamisHouse]

Mars will require us to fix the magnetic field first, we have absolutely no good way to do that currently. The soil contains perchlorates which are also found on earth, they are toxic and usually found in areas where there is little to no diversity in the soil. There is also very low pressure on Mars, making it very difficult for water to remain on the surface and not freeze or seep back into the soil. Lastly, we don't exactly know how much elements we have available and in what quantities to augment Mars's atmosphere. We can't colonize it at this point, it needs a few prerequisites first, the bar is set quite high but not theoretically impossible. I would describe the difficulty as if you were to get up from your couch right now, train, study and work hard to get an Olympic medal and actually achieve it.

[@juimymary9951]

Hmmm for Venus, why not combining the Hydrogen Approach with the Shading approach? It sounds like they would work out great hand in hand

[@glenwaldrop8166]

I think that would be a mistake. Look at the planets, ignore what we've been taught. Mercury is small, solid, Venus is gas heavy and hot as hell with no magnetic field, Earth is the sweet spot, Mars is cold and dead. Mercury is new, Venus is next youngest, hasn't settled in to spinning correctly to build a magnetic field, the sun is baking off the excess atmosphere, Earth is slowly dying, we're getting cooler in long term trends, this is fact, there will be another ice age and the Earth will lose atmosphere during the magnetic flips even if nothing else happens in the meantime. Mars is cold and dead, it had an atmosphere *and* magnetic field and now has virtually neither. Youngest planet is closest to the sun.

[@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj]

Yes, that's why we need artificial magnetic field technology Not only for Terraforming other planets but also for Earth

[@glenwaldrop8166]

@@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj Yeah, if I'm right about the planets' ages then we'd be stunting Venus at this point, wouldn't be livable any time soon. Mars is too far gone.

[@UmbreonAnimate]

First, we need to make sure that we don't Venusform/Marsform our own planet.

[@ahriskof1]

Actually if we have the technology to terraform other planets we can restore our earth to its former glory

[@juimymary9951]

No problemo, that won't happen despite our best efforts.* *But even then even just a slight variation in our environment could spell doom for us all

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Define _"former glory"_ . If you mean _"Carbon Neutral"_ like all the eco doomsayers suggest we should do then that was never a thing in the first place. No carbon = no plants or trees = no you or me. At least on Earth.@@ahriskof1

[@MrMatbat1]

Yeah right what a load of pie in the sky, no point what so ever

[@bugstomper4670]

Terraform it into Los Angeles. Then people will want to live there.

[@danthemanx999]

The Martian got it right then with organic waste.

[@kentbarker4748]

God ,is everybody crazy?! we'll all be dead long before that happens. we ARE'NT going anywhere

[@mmac7314]

Unfortunately we already know how to terraform a planet we’ve been terraforming the earth for more than 100 years….to the determent of our species

[@chrislong3938]

Until humans can create and control micro-climates on a local scale, without screwing up the rest of the planet, removing deserts is impossible. It would be easier to monkey with the climate of an entire planet and see how that goes. As far as simulated gravity goes on Mars, how about magnetic suits where electro-magnet strength could be modified on various parts, say, the arms, relative to other parts. The floor would be at a constant magnetic level. Of course, this wouldn't apply outside, but it might be a good half-assed way to deal with it. I can still imagine that people might get seasick since their inner organs, especially their inner ears wouldn't be affected without maybe some minor surgery. The magnetic level would have to be pretty monstrous due to the short range of magnetic fields, and no iron could be nearby!!!

[@lv4077]

“Terrafarming” other planets is based on comic book physics but that shouldn’t stop government bureaucrats from wasting trillions on planning or paying “experts “ to organize it.

[@AmonTheWitch]

it's absolutely possible? We're actively doing it to earth unintentionally, it's just not an instant thing, nor do i think mars will ever have a magneto sphere

[@lv4077]

@@AmonTheWitch Show me how you’re going to terraform the Mojave desert.Ill spot you an atmosphere,with reasonable climate control,nontoxic soil,even a little occasional moisture.You’ll enjoy a short trip to transport the equivalent components that would take 11/2 years of travel,Mars,and hundreds of billions in expenses.With all these benefits in place for free we’ll see how practical it might be on a cosmic scale,with all the associated expenses,toxic soil and virtually nonexistent atmosphere and travel distances that will challenge human physiology to the point of collapse.

[@KhaoticDeterminism]

always wondered why they just don’t revamp their agriculture processes instead companion cropping would drastically decrease the amount of area used for farming hunting wild moose and bison instead of ranching cattle on the land would also really help the mental health crisis cheers #indigenous

[@juimymary9951]

You do realize there is no physical law that prohibits terraforming right? Engineering and economical challenges? Yes, but it has little to nothing to do with physics I reccomend the Kurzesagt videos on the subject

[@lv4077]

@@juimymary9951 Be specific,what exactly is your interest in this fantasy? How do you plan to benefit from it? What exactly are you willing to contribute to the effort?

[@infuriatedgerm]

In IT systems, you don't dev/test on your production environment. Just saying ....

[@adriancastillo7657]

What’s the boiling point of water on Mars?

[@Coretnor]

Lollll SpaceX by 2024 huh

[@user-zl9sh9mz6h]

Norm MacDonald said that Elon Musk's plan to send humans to Mars will make him the world's most frivolous and patient serial killer. 👍

[@leotka]

At least Venus has hips of oxygen. We can transport to Moon a lot of carbon dioxide and make oxigen and methane. But Mars has only problems - big distance, hostile environment, low gravitation... No, Moon and Venus more then enough for closest millenia.

[@keithharris1672]

Venus, doubtful.

[@angryyoungman66]

Next step is the MCRN space ships attacking earth , 😂😂😂.

[@angusmackaskill3035]

short answer no

[@douglaswatters7303]

We can't even change the desserts right here.

[@the_kombinator]

I can turn them into excrements and rolls of fat, depending on how well my metabolism is working.

[@raydawson2767]

The Saudi’s have been doing it and the Israeli’s.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

China started it with the Kubuqi desert back in 1988

[@ianfeuerhake1859]

I guess anything is possible with enough time and effort, but it’s nothing that will happen in our lifetimes

[@AmonTheWitch]

the end result won't, but we can start sowing the seeds (maybe quite literally)

[@ianfeuerhake1859]

@@AmonTheWitch it's an impractical pipe dream

[@JamesThompson-us1mk]

Most likely not But we will try

[@help-someone-in-requirements]

Remarkable educational video, please upload similar shorter length videos in the near future. Thanks for your research & efforts. 👍🍓(⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

[@z3rah.just.for.vi3wing]

Terraforming is not going to happen in our life time necessarily. Though, we can make the efforts to pave the way for future generations. So why not try? Even if it's not possible, it will expand our capabilities as humans. Just think about all of the technology we have now because of space exploration.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

_"2,50,000"_ ? LOL

[@mart6788]

Humans Going to Mars in 2024??

[@kennethharrison1286]

Remember the old saying ? Leave well enough alone .😊

[@19MarkDavid]

What possibly could go wrong? 1) Knocking Venus out of current orbit on collision course with earth. 2) impacting the moon so harshly it cracks along an unknown fissure resulting a change in earth's orbit and rotation 3) Martian's don't concur and unleash an army of pestilence on earth. Agree with you. Leave well enough alone. As a civilization we are still a half millennium away from Kardashev Scale level 1. Don't think we will be transforming any planet soon. Unless of course we transform earth into a radioactive wasteland.

[@sandyclaflin2844]

It seems impractical and expensive. If we would be able to terraform other planets, then why aren't we solving global warming?

[@WtfYouMeanDude]

In a few million years, another civilization is going to be out there looking at Earth like "can we terraform this piece of crap.." so Mars was just like Earth great planet now it looks like a piece of crap so we'll just try to fix it again.. while earth prob dies and then we can be like hey lets terraform earth back... repeat repeat

[@1966jcar]

Venus needs a moon to terraform an same with mars needs a moon but mercury was Venus moon the time lost moon mercury it flip Venus roate backwards

[@ShockGtheGreat]

Space x never said it would send humans to Mars in 2024 Pal... 2026 is the window

[@nicholashylton6857]

Years ago, Musk said he'd land a mission on Mars by... 2020. Or in realistic terms, in the mid 2030's. He said the rocket would have movie theaters & 0g gyms.

[@vicious12394]

Good news is we terraformed Mars. Bad news is we made the entire thing the Sahara desert.

[@davidfromamerica1871]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🤯🤩Clickbait ✅ for the fruities.

[@uavtech]

0:53 - "SpaceX by 2024"! It is 2024 now. lol. More like 2054.

[@AmonTheWitch]

we don't need to terraform Venus, we can just live in the clouds which i find much more exciting than turning it into earth 2. Mars can easily be terraformed with lichen and by crashing it's moons into it

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Living in the clouds seems pointless. What happens if there is a power failure? Not to mention the potential resources you would need to keep it afloat in the first place.

[@AmonTheWitch]

@@Jizzlewobbwtfcus the clouds of venus are extremely dense, it's very easy to float a top of them with a blimp

[@AmonTheWitch]

@@Jizzlewobbwtfcus you can look up the ideas scientists are already discussing

[@romeoalpha68]

Why not start with the moon . It's closer and if we can do that we go to Mars .

[@jessiedesjardine3988]

Mars is cold because it's atmosphere isn't energy dense earth is warm because theres tons of energy in our atmosphere 😂

[@BlindPidePiper]

Interesting solution to the magnetic field problem. That has to be solved before trying to build an atmosphere or you'll just loose it over time.

[@TanjirouKamado-fl6lj]

NASA had published a paper on different ways to fix the magnetic field. But sadly, the low gravity would make the atmosphere thinner by default

[@jimthar17]

"I'm gonna science the shit out of this!" Also: The number 250,000 gets ONE comma, not two. There's no comma after the 2. You put a comma after every three digits from the end.

[@Jizzlewobbwtfcus]

Spotted that too. I laughed :D

[@markantonio6512]

Impossible not now not in 100 years probably not in 1000 years. We lol cant even get there what terraform we talking about

[@alexhigginbotham8635]

Or... or we can just terraform Earth into the environment that we need it to be. Afterall, Earth is much more survivable for our species than Mars or Venus... and of course we all ready live here. I mean... it's where I keep all my stuff.

[@AmonTheWitch]

we can do all of those at once

[@tomusmc1993]

This is how you know the answer to the question "Can we terraform a planet with today's technology?" Is No. If we could, we would do it here first and we can't. So if you can't do it here, why do you think you can do it anywhere else where the physics will be the same, and the cost will be exponentially higher.

[@alexhigginbotham8635]

@@AmonTheWitch - With the proper tech, yes. Cost effective? Likely not unless we move to an economic model similar to Star Trek... and well... we are just too greedy.

[@Shadowespeon17]

Of course we need to look after this planet but the reason this is such a topic isn't about today, but in a distant future when the sun is projected to swell up as it loses Hydrogen and gains Helium, changing the "Goldilocks zone" of the Solar system, thus making Earth increasingly less hospitable for us.

[@tomusmc1993]

@@Shadowespeon17 dude I am as forwarding thinking as anyone. We can't get behind physics that isn't string theory. We cant replicate what we were able to accomplish 55 years ago in space travel. We can't even agree on what a woman is. We are running towards AGI without one consideration to the impacts it can have. What you are talking about is billions and at the earliest hundreds of millions of years on the future. I say we spent some time figuring out how to make it another 100 before we start worrying about things that far down the line.

[@rainiermanalo9421]

Human in nature has the capacity to terraform mars . over smart what it makes not

[@PAnon-sama]

0:53 "SpaceX plans to do so(send humans to Mars) by 2024." This video is 5 days old and already this outdated? Is it AI scripted?

[@robinwolstenholme6377]

Terraform Mars, Venus in the year 2525 will man still be alive???

[@ChadSimplicio]

Good points made on the various segments. Does this make you want to play "Terraformers?"

[@iulian-ovidiugeamanu4995]

NO!

[@varman001]

Humans will colonize the whole galaxy eventually!

[@darellpiper7227]

No we can not terraform Mars or any other Planet. Its only a dream, never happen.

[@wickedguppy3715]

No

[@Xoman08]

that thing of doing an artificial magnetic field on Mars sounds like "science fiction".

[@Pat19997]

We can’t even stop global warming or pollution here on earth, terraforming another planet ridiculous.

[@namzes1]

I'm on the Mars now, Please, dont think about Mars, stay at home on the Earth! Y kill personal planet and next Mars !? Stop! Stay on the your planet.

[@zenithzeitgeist7489]

2:23 & 26:19 Seems like Venus would also need a magnetic field generator to terraform it.

[@theskeli1848]

Tbh before we go and terraform any planet or moon we need to figure out how to be fully sustainable so we don’t mess it up like earth because mars isn’t a earth replacement it’s a earth counterpart and so is any other celestial body

[@Strutingeagle]

No they can't terraform a planet. Not even close. It is as far fetched as traveling the speed of light.

[@jessemills3845]

On the Moon, just have to REPAIR what is already there!

[@Idiotatwork]

Fairly pointless question as terraforming anywhere would take hundreds if not thousands of yrs so any terraforming would only start with today's tech and finish with tech of the yr 3000+

[@larryyoderlarryyoder353]

No,all the money in the world would be enough to have any effect. Let's stop destroying the earth for profit

[@achillestimpac321]

We were cave men back then, human potential is limitless, we can do it, but we are going woke, well thats inlcuded..... Politics

[@travishylton6976]

we are about to nuke ourselfs cavemen were smarter elon is a fool

[@NeoMoonSevin]

No you can't terraform these planets look how many meteor impacts across all these planets there is this why there is no life on any of these but that could change in the far far future as the sun starts to expand these planets will harbour life but that's millions of years from now

[@user-no3uy3hx3g]

Mars is boring. Let’s do stuff on the moon so we can watch.

[@BayBaller]

This was crap all NASA who is so far from hitting the moon n no mention of space x killing it 😂

[@nicholashylton6857]

Yeah! All NASA has done is image *_every_* major body in the solar system, build orbiting space telescopes, return samples of comets & asteroids. Hell... NASA even landed an orbiter (not a dedicated lander, an orbiter) on asteroid, 433 Eros just for kicks. We've got to give Musk some credit. His rockets may soon take humans to the Moon like NASA did - before he was even born.

[@tonac13]

Of course we can. Especially with our peaceful way of thinking. Look what heaven we made of Earth. I see no reason not to make heaven on other planets as well. We have young, smart, capable and generous world leaders. The improvement of mankind is our goal, not greed. I see these planets terraformed in the next 6-7 years. Maybe 8.

[@honyock332]

No. Won't be wasting any more time with Insane Curiosity.