Colonizing Callisto - Third Largest Moon In The Solar System

Callisto is a pretty big moon that has some conditions which are very friendly for a human colony. Because of that in this video, I take a look at how we could go about establishing a big colony on this moon of Jupiter and how we could even turn its surface conditions to be even better for humans in the really far future.
Twitter: / dreksler_astral
Intro, outro, and other clips in the video were made with Space Engine.
Music used:
1. Kevin MacLeod - Martian Cowboy
2. Space Mercury preview DL-Sounds
3. Kevin MacLeod - Lost Frontier
4. Space Coast - Topher Mohr and Alex Elena
5. At the Foot of the Sphinx - Twin Musicom
6. Kevin MacLeod - Thunder Dreams

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[@MarkHobbes]

Finally someone talking seriously about Callisto while everyone just seems to care about Europa, Enceladus and Titan.

[@iapetus6110]

Well i care about Iapetus tethys dione hyperion mimas and enceladus

[@Marchant2]

I care about Charon.

[@iapetus6110]

@Skipping Stones actually yea it kinda does some astronomers only care about those 3 popular moons

[@MarkHobbes]

@@iapetus6110 They also have oceans under the surface, but everyone just mentions Europa and Enceladus like they're the only ones.

[@iapetus6110]

@@MarkHobbes not all saturnian major moons have oceans under the surface its frozem

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Great video. It would be so cool to say: -Where are you going to spend your holidays this year? -This year we are going to Callisto

[@IndronilAnik]

The holiday trip alone would last more than a year. lol.

[@superkittyshow1782]

Just dont forget to pack your speedos

[@winterweib]

@@IndronilAnik When this will be possible, be sure it won't.

[@jacksonstempel3382]

@@IndronilAnik Well, if spaceships in the future could constantly accelerate and decelerate at 1g, if my math is right, it would take only 140 hours to get to Callisto. The 1g acceleration solves the problem of gravity on spaceships and it is fast, so a win win. Hopefully this will eventually be possible.

[@alessiopoloni9100]

@@jacksonstempel3382 Well there is this little problem of enormous radiation from Jupiter, but who can say, maybe one day even this could not be an issue.

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[@dixiebiscuit5623]

Imagine looking up into the sky and seeing Jupiter

It would be best to install the colony on the far side, for humans, for machines, for communication so look at Jupiter would be a tourist stuff

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@ Far side; facing away from Jupiter.

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yes so only tourists want to face this monster but I doubt this could be a pleasant moment for the body. The rest of people want to be the other side to be protected from Jupiter.

[@raygun26]

Imagine looking up into the sky and seeing Uranus

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@raygun26 You can, except it's a dim visual magnitude of +5.7, and your joke is tiresome

[@DanielPizarro184]

sometimes i wish i was born like 500 years into the future to see how advanced we’d be

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Nope, human civilisation will collapse before the turn of 24th century

[@hughjass4838]

Thats probably what people 500 years ago said too.

[@fallendown8828]

@@hughjass4838 yeah in İslam (which is one of the most influvencer religions in the world) says "world will end soon but no other creature other than god knows when" and after 1400 we are still here so i will just assume we can survive if we do things right like colonize Mars and more energy more sustainable and other good stuff

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Literally Callisto protocol

[@jackturner3867]

@@hamoshytube1853humanity will have a self sustaining colony on mars hundred of years before that, if mars is real.

[@newpapyrus]

Obviously, small nuclear reactors would be required to power outpost and eventual colonies on Callisto-- especially during the more than 8 days of night. It should be easier to shield habitats on Callisto from excessive radiation and micrometeorites-- than on the Moon and Mars-- since all you have to do is fill up a bag of water surrounding the habitat with water just a few meters thick and then allow it to freeze into protective water ice. Large inflatable habits (biospheres and bio-tori) should be particularly easy to deploy since the external walls can be easily shielded with surrounding water bags that quickly freeze to ice. Biospheres manufactured on Earth and deployed to the surface of Callisto could be up to 50 meters in diameter (if inflated with the same atmospheric pressure that exist on Earth)-- large enough to accommodate a large swimming pool, basketball court, or tennis court in the top half of the biosphere under the biodome. There might even be enough room within the upper half of the sphere to fly around with wings underneath the 25 meter high biodome.

[@richardconway6425]

Yes, loads of good points there. Having loads of water around seems like an exceptionally good thing, quite a luxury, because it would, as you say, be very useful for protecting the astronauts in their habitats and workplaces. This would be in addition to all the other essential uses for water, like drinking, washing, splitting to make rocket fuel, and oxygen to breathe. The two most important things for space exploration - water and power.

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[@RickFaulknerStarsAndGuitars]

Imagine Jupiter, 50 times bigger than the size of Earth’s moon, in Callisto’s sky!Worth the trip, just for that!🚀✨🤩🖖🏻

[@AlanRPaine]

I don't think it would be as big as that. Callisto is about 5 x as far from Jupiter as the Earth is from the Moon and Jupiter is about 40 x the diameter of the Moon so this would make Jupiter about 8 x the size of the Moon as seen from Earth. Still very impressive

[@fallendown8828]

@@AlanRPaine it would look even bigger on Europa :D imagine the beuty

[@AlanRPaine]

@@fallendown8828 It would be fabulous until you were fried by the radiation

[@fallendown8828]

@@AlanRPaine nope, even on IO you can not be fried by radiation, it is not how radiation works

[@AlanRPaine]

@@fallendown8828 OK not literally fried but Europa with 54000 x the radiation level of Callisto, which itself receives more radiation than the Earth, would not be good for the health without very powerful protection

[@malcolmabram2957]

This video is great. The big problem with humans being away from the Earth for along time is immunology. Away from earth for 3 years, get back 1 cold, you are dead. I knew a guy who worked for the Antarctica survey, and they only spent 6 months there for immunology reasons.

[@brianmessemer2973]

Interesting.

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Yes you are absolutely correct. I was stationed in Antarctica and it was a six months deployment. I was support Personnel for the scientists. By the way, oxygen generators are found on nuclear Submarines.

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Your best installment yet. Very well done. More like these please. The radiation differences between the jovian moon was fascinating.

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Great! Do Ganymede next. It would be interesting if the magnetosphere it has, would be advantages for colonization even though the radiation is higher there.

[@MarkHobbes]

Is Ganymede thin exosphere plus their magnetosphere enough to protect humans in its surface?

[@polishkerbal6920]

@@MarkHobbes no,humans would die without the space suit

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I would like very much to see a serious scenario of terraforming ganymede considering the fact that it has it own Magnetosphere...!!!

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to disappeare again

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"The Man in Black"

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I spend a stupid amount of time just reading about the moons of the solar system, and watching KZbin videos about them, and I never knew about the low surface radiation. You got yourself a new sub.

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same XD

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Also going down the moon rabbit hole. Fascinating. What’s your favourite moon?

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[@youngmasterzhi]

I can see why Krafton chose this moon as the main setting of his epic sic-fi story. Two questions still remain though. 1. How should the colony plan a construction of a new prison on Callisto? 2. What protocols could we do to protect the inmates from a possible hostile alien takeover from Callisto and turning the prison into a labyrinth of horrors?

[@dustintaber]

Dude thank you for such a long video on such an interesting topic. Not even five minutes in and I'm in full support for #OccupyCallisto

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6:44 looks like someone was caught doing something 😂😂

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I don't think it's possible to actually have a boner in space, due to no gravity

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[@AlmostEthical]

It would be easier just to send AI and access their sensory data. Humans are simply not sustainable in space - radiation, gravity, air, feeding, wastage ... and none of these have any margin for error. Scott Kelly showed how even in the ISS, which is largely protected by Earth, a single year deeply impacts human bodies. This was a super fit and healthy astronaut - far more robust than most of us - and he needed a long period of rehab on Earth afterwards to recover. As you noted, the mental stress for long distance human explorers would be far greater.

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[@TylerMillhouse]

Great video! It's also worth considering the delta v requirements of getting to and from Callisto compared with the other Galilean moons. It's surprisingly difficult to get around there due to Jupiter's enormous gravity well.

[@condor5912]

I mean it depends. If you can just enter in orbit around Jupiter, and send a probe to Callisto from the orbit, it might, just maybe, be less difficult than you might think.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

That gravity well would also allow space craft to use it to accelerate ...

[@TylerMillhouse]

@@davidhollenshead4892 Unfortunately, a gravity assist from Jupiter would only allow acceleration relative to the sun, not Jupiter or its moons. You could get gravity assists from the other moons, but that means a circuitous route in a highly radioactive area of space.

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I absolutely love this episode, it really fires my imagination. I've watched it several times. Thanks Dreksler ! 🚀

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Great video. A base on Callisto could be used to send robotic explorers to Europa and elsewhere

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The legend is back

[@frankb3347]

Crazy idea here but what about crashing the Jovian moons into each other to create something with a little more mass and gravity? It would better hold onto an atmosphere and better sustain humans. For obvious reasons I suggest calling this new moon Minerva.

[@fallendown8828]

wow it is actually crazy :D this would be a great sci-fi film but it is defiifelly impossible for non type 2 civilization and might not even worth it. But it was cool to think abouth it thanks :)

[@lincolnlog5977]

The moons would also take millions of years to cool of and merge after the crash though, and by that point I’m sure we’ll have the technology to solve the problem of gravity and radiation

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Great video as always, keep 'em coming. Thank you!

[@fallendown8828]

12:38 omg this looks so good. We need more pictures like this!!!

[@McClarinJ]

There are a lot of Earth-like planets we may someday visit and/or populate but first I'm sure we'll take advantage of what our solar system offers.

[@martinsavage6838]

Because we live on the surface of Earth, too many people think in terms of settling the surface of moons, but this is wrong. Colonies would be built inside large caverns, which would be easy to construct in the low gravity.

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All those watery moons out there... all those magical places out there... and we can’t even see them for good in our lives Also... this is a looooong video! Hopefully we’ll see more uploads like this.

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Interesting question: is Callisto covered in a layer of dust like mars and the moon, not having enough or any wind to clear off the rocks?

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yes it is one of the most similar object to our Moon. But it is just bigger so it is also nice

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The NASA logos on the base components and spacescraft would probably read something more like SpaceX. LOL, just sayn.... GREAT video BTW!

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There's no avoiding the use of nuclear energy in space, at least not for applications that need serious, reliable power. Great video.

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Merci, great subject well explained, a kind of candy video for my mind

[@andreasbauer8668]

You overlooked a couple of really important known facts about that moon: it has basically no atmosphere. That means a spacecraft arriving from earth with high velocity will have to use propulsion to cancel out that velocity and land on the surface. THAT IS A REALLY BIG PROBLEM because it severely limits the payload that can be transported from earth. That is why on Apollo the lunar module was constructed in a very flimsy way and the whole mission took only 3 astronauts and yet needed the biggest ever constructed rocket (Saturn V) to make the mission possible. Human Mars exploration is within the reach of current propulsion technology because of distance and atmosphere. Callisto will have to wait until a breakthrough in propulsion occured.

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I have to say this channel has great visuals. Grade A quality. Living on Callisto? It is nice science fiction but it is never going to happen in our life times. Great video though.

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[@antonnym214]

Very nice reporting! I would point out another advantage OR disadvantage might be that Calisto has 12.5% of Earth's gravity. That's great for cargo, maybe not so great for human bone density. This could be somewhat amerliorated by spending only brief periods of time on Calisto, and then returning to a home base on Mars, for example, which has 38%.

[@faresjouda8176]

Please, give this man a Nobel prize

[@Narmatonia]

Wouldn't the lack of significant atmosphere to provide lift make flight extremely difficult?

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

I have for years heralded Callisto as a good place for a human outpost, now that we know more about Titan I think It may be a much better place to establish a presence.

[@ILOVERESISTANCE]

The most fascinating moon of the solar system

[@fallendown8828]

NOPE. It is big but doesn't have anything more. Ganymede has a magnetic field so even that is more interesting and don't make me talk abouth Europa or Titan. It is a very good moon but Titan and Europa is far more fascinating and interesting for sure

[@ILOVERESISTANCE]

@@fallendown8828 i'm talking about aesthetics

[@fallendown8828]

@@ILOVERESISTANCE ok then IO because it has so many colours on it and looks fascinating

[@skurinski]

@@fallendown8828 Callisto looks cooler, like a NYC at night

[@user-qt2nu6hm8c]

I'm 2 weeks late but ty for uploading

[@richdobbs6595]

For power on the scale of colonization, it seems like RTGs makes more sense than photovoltaics. Maybe photovoltaics combined with mirrors to make up for distance from the sun. Or given the ability to mine ice, mirrors for solar concentration, steam turbines and generators.

[@hdufort]

Callisto is actually one of the best spots in the solar system for an outpost. Pretty good surface gravity, just far enough from Jupiter to get no dangerous radiation, interesting gravity well, not too far from Earth (compared to Saturn), lots of water ice, we can probably extract nitrogen and oxygen from compounds in the ice, etc.

[@fallendown8828]

yeah it is one of the bests in outer solar system but in inner solar system we have better options. But Callisto and Titan is always there for further expantion

[@Durin_Son]

Space travel may be for robots only. They don't require food, oxygen, excercise etc. They only need a power source.

[@sm1522]

ongg this crazyyy

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[@christianzeidan7971]

I love this video. It's really well explained. But I have a question: why Humans would want to live on other planets? Like, why would any investor spend billions and billions of dollars just to get humans on another planet while this money can be used to save earth.

[@dankuchar6821]

Yup! There has to be something there that makes it a good financial opportunity.

[@christianzeidan7971]

@@dankuchar6821 yep, an opportunity to rule an entire planet, not just a country...

[@skurinski]

overpopulation. Asia and Africa population growth is unsustainable

[@McClarinJ]

Snowflake comment. What would be learned in any attempt to occupy another moon or planet would be invaluable in our understanding of means by which we can "save Earth," by which I assume you mean reverse anthropogenic climate change, clean the plastic out of the oceans, and similar causes. However, there have been many extinctions visited upon Earth long before the present industrial age and it's the events that cause them that augur for expanding off our planet. One big concern is comets and asteroids that might impact Earth. True, it's a rare occurrence, the most recent probably being a barrage of comet fragments that struck the North American ice sheet, incinerating forests and grasslands, obliterating the megafauna and the Clovis culture that hunted them, and causing immense floods from impact-melted ice that precipitously raised the sea level over 100 meters, wiping out human settlements on every seacoast worldwide. Going into space will improve our ability to detect and deter comets and asteroids. Saving our species from annihilation is exactly the aim of Elon Musk, currently the world's fourth-wealthiest person, and he's prepared to spend every dime getting a self-sustaining human colony started on Mars in attempt "to preserve the light of reason."

[@timheusmann5085]

Great video pls give us more 👌🏼

[@frankmcgregor5355]

This is a really nice production.

[@SocksWithSandals]

I spent a year on Callisto. Working as a Venom pilot for G-Police I uncovered a Nanosoft plot to take over the solar system. Or was that just a playstation game?

[@ricthomas9788]

It was real. PlayStation was your training. Over time some memories may return. You were a credit for the G-Police. We will contact you again should your special talents be needed.

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Hes back!

[@Bestien]

Nice channel brother

[@joehinojosa24]

One small step for man, one GIANT LEAP TO CALISTO

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What would it feel like to stand on the rubberduck comet/asteroid?

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[@musicbox8351]

cool ill see you in 200 years

[@sundarchip]

My favourite moon

[@gjones7547]

You had better colonise Callisto within the next 50 years because there won't be much left of planet Earth.

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Oh yeah, Baby..... he’s back and kicking outer space ass. Can I get a hallelujah.

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[@garychurch9740]

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[@eutopioeutopia8387]

A better colonization target in the Jovian system would be Ganymede. Ganymede is the only natural satellite in our solar system with a magnetic field, mitigating radiation conditions. It also has an atmosphere, albeit a thin one, that could be thickened. Bio domes that are several kilometres in diameter could be built on Ganymede, which could be lit with magnified sunlight.

[@HahotoAtanas]

Amazing video!

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Great video style.