Could We Create A Livable Atmosphere On The Moon?

Until recently, scientists thought the moon had no atmosphere, but it actually does! What's it made of and can it be made to support life?
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Is There an Atmosphere on the Moon?
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"What is the moon's atmosphere made of? We have some clues. The Apollo 17 mission deployed an instrument called the Lunar Atmospheric Composition Experiment (LACE) on the moon's surface. It detected small amounts of a number of atoms and molecules including helium, argon, and possibly neon, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide."
Mars Lost Atmosphere to Space as Life Took Hold on Earth
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"Observations by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and other spacecraft have shown that the Red Planet was relatively warm billions of years ago, with extensive lake-and-stream systems and perhaps even a large ocean that covered much of the Martian surface."
How Do We Terraform The Moon?
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"Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, scientists and futurists have explored the idea of transforming other worlds to meet human needs. Known as terraforming, this process calls for the use of environmental engineering techniques to alter a planet or moon's temperature, atmosphere, topography or ecology (or all of the above) in order to make it more 'Earth-like.'"
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[@Tlactl]

but can we terraform the industrial part of China

[@anotherguy4319]

No. That place is like the surface of Venus.

[@saintebetterave3001]

vodahmin fun fact elon musk is a advisor for Donald Trump.....

[@cbaha4985]

Tlactl we need to filter emissions from China to save the Earth but don’t forget the US as well

[@severynsolaris4911]

sainte betterave, Musk resigned in 2017.

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

@@TairaEldritch *YES*

[@markhilston2119]

At least we would have an endless supply of cheese. There would be no need to bring any food to the moon.

[@apathy9495]

Lelouch Vi Britannia I'm dead

[@julianmelillo]

Lelouch Vi Britannia dammit I want some Kury and chocolate oh and fudge

[@BlackKnightsCommander]

Apathy Is it because you couldn't care?

[@beyo5]

Years of cheese sandwiches....morning noon and night...that would get old after a while, plus all those lactose intolerant colonists would probably kill everybody off with their gassy emissions.

[@yaodongzhou7552]

Mark Hilston good joke

[@caribbeanman3379]

I think the closest we can come to terraforming the Moon would be to build air-tight, greenhouse-like habitats on the Moon, maybe by excavating large rectangular canyons and covering it with transparent roofs made of hard plastic or glass. Or maybe we can build underground cave systems and have large solar arrays on the surface to provide power for lighting and other necessities.

[@ericgolightly8450]

Cover the moon in a big balloon

[@LisaAnn777]

​@@ericgolightly8450a balloon? Huh?

[@Master_Therion]

I love looking at the Moon. But I feel that if it had an atmosphere it wouldn't be quite so breathtaking.

[@KarunMano]

Master Therion yep it's a pretty cool alien observatory though.

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

Master Therion That's your opinion though. Honestly it had a sufficient atmosphere like Earth's even if it wasn't habitable then it would have a tail similar to that of a comet due to the solar wind. Also forget simply looking at it, if it had an atmosphere then we'd have even more of a reason to go there after the Apollo missions ended.

[@garrettspillane8371]

Master Therion HHAHAHAAH

[@kowface3609]

Michael Simmons, do you not understand when something is supposed to be funny?

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

Kow Face Venus and Mars both have atmospheres that are breathtaking sir.

[@ND001X]

So is she trying to terraform her hair???!

[@kurtispayne2661]

John Smith what on "earth" is that

[@malikmalak4631]

Her hair looks cool.

[@ashu12468]

i would say she is trying to become a Vulcan

[@y0nd3r]

Steven Williams no she isn't. Hyper aware of how her hands and shoulders look online, comes across as fake.

[@y0nd3r]

John Smith actually, the hair looks fine to me. Her eyebrows look too bony. She needs to let them grow back.

[@BartvG88]

Your haircut looks like how people from the 80's would imagine future haircuts.

[@ViburaBlanca]

Can’t unsee this, but oddly cool!

[@NateCrownwell]

DNews: what exactly happens when someone has diarrhea?

[@bengt2852]

good question dawg.

[@garystone1008]

Nate Crownwell poo comes out that bum

[@ItIsMeTime123]

for real you don't know..?

[@_MantisShrimp]

Your lungs explode

[@welshcelt666]

Do you have diarrhoea?

[@upandatom]

I think it would be cool to live on the moon

[@DANGJOS]

Very cool and very hot. Impossible to breathe, unless you have a pressurized dome. Also need to protect against meteoroids.

[@heartlessgaming8270]

Your name is awesome that is all

[@NwoDispatcher]

would be cool to see a green moon

[@RazvanYON]

And it will save humans

[@azdeatherage]

Same

[@Bigsmoke11001]

A man can dream

[@kevinoloane6060]

globoxsas stupid

[@AtulKumarVermaOnline]

Hey DNews, Thank you for answering my question. Keep spreading the knowledge.

[@lkhjsdfg]

The biggest challenge is that if we made an atmosphere on the moon republicans would just deny that it exists.

[@TupacAurelius]

Scott Cox true I wonder why republicans are mostly dumb christian and some racist.

[@ProunceProudly]

Sohailito because people don't want to believe that once you die that's it.

[@zagami4742]

PureNT I'm Australian we are all drunks

[@TairaEldritch]

yeah so they can choose who goes.. I agree with that.. not everybody should be allowed.. :]

[@lkhjsdfg]

+ELDERPALADIN98 Its too bad your aunt and uncle never heard of birth control.

[@hemshah4127]

Awesome video Dnews I loved it

[@KorribansFallen]

"Make Earth Great Again"! 😉

[@DisrespectingOpinionsIsSatanic]

M.E.G.A.

[@furiy2720]

Mega

[@danjor50]

Vintage Space is an amazing channel! Awesome to see the channel collaboration

[@cortster12]

If you can terraform the Moon, you can terraform the Earth much more easily.

[@garystone1008]

Cortster terrarform the earth? Lol it kinda already is unless you're just trolling

[@swapanjain892]

He means we could undo the damages.

[@cortster12]

Gary Stone I obviously mean terraform it after it has all gone to shit. There is nothing we could do to make the Earth less hospitable than Mars, The Moon, or Venus. That means any technology we invent that could make those planets hospitable means we could fix Earth at a fraction of the cost and effort. So all those movies about leaving Earth to find another planet are full of shit. We need to spread to other planets to increase our sum available landmasses and resources, not abandon Earth.

[@garystone1008]

VitaliiDaGamer climate change is fake? what do you mean? water levels are rising and it's getting hotter

[@cortster12]

***** If you looked at the data over the past decades of all the ice on Earth, you'd see that the sum of all ice is lesser.

[@travisoliver2288]

Well crap, now I have to fire up Universe Sandbox 2 again.

[@ricktheexplorer]

AMY! Good to see you, either here or the NASA Docs on the Sci Channel! I hope you don't mind me saying, but you rock those Pink and Purple Bangs! Back to the topic; I am afraid if we put anything at all on the moon, it may mess up the orbit!

[@MrGoogleChill]

This was a great question and an even better answer. Thanks for the insight. Cheers! 🌎

[@sameeryadav8857]

that was some great explanation and info in 4 min time

[@daurham]

It'd be sooooo awesome if you guys do a video on Tessa and his theory against gravity! Love your videos ❤️

[@joshreji7510]

who else watched the whole video because of her?

[@jorge-lp2xi]

I stopped whatching the video because of her :(

[@jacksonpercy8044]

So you normally lose interest in every topic that has a different host and you click off the video? That's not the point of science videos, you know.

[@joshreji7510]

jorge diaz why ?

[@ArdaKaraduman]

I believe I read somewhere that we could use some flouro carbons (like CF4) to initiate an atmosphere on the mars and the moon. They are very stable, heavy, (doesnt lose very easily) and act as greenhouse gas. In the long run it would also help to grind the regolith.

[@de14jabs]

that hairstyle+color is dope, the content of the video- also dope, this video is therefore........ liked!

[@ItsJordaan]

Despite it being outrageously expensive to build, I still think we should look at creating a ring planet, like in Halo. I mean think about it. We could build an entirely new planet-like structure, capable of sustaining life, exactly how we want to build it. There wouldn’t be any kind of obstacle to overcome, like Mars’ dust storms or the moon’s low gravity. All we’d have to worry about it funding the construction for it and how we’d build it. We could have it mobile as well so we could be living on an Earth-like surface while continuously exploring the outer reaches of our solar system and possibly even our galaxy. Think of it as a huge, luxurious space station that is capable of carrying everyone on Earth, while also moving freely about in our solar system. The ring’s direction could be controlled via a highly secured government facility onboard the ring’s surface. We wouldn’t have to worry about fuel because we could use solar powered boosters that move the ring forward. It’d be a great way to really get out there and explore our universe while also living in a habitable environment that has all the same luxuries as our beloved Earth. I know this will probably never become a reality, but it’s still really cool to think about. Who knows? Maybe one day we’ll decide to give it a try.

[@Danielle33384]

Could you please tell me where I can find the picture you used for this video of the moon? thanks

[@Rylus571]

you could just build dome cities in the craters and pressurize those. To be self sustaining you could have a network of them for agriculture, power, water, and mining.

[@jonathangehrman7641]

breathtaking... the video too!

[@EzraInk]

I like this video! This stuff is so cool!

[@TechnocraticBushman]

Moving comets from the Oort cloud and towards the general direction of Earth and hope they strike the moon is a great idea. Why not do that? What could possibly go wrong?

[@jonesricky9]

Yes I had a vision of a hydro solor atmosphere it heats the water in space steaming it I have been wait for this

[@Pendoza84]

Moon loving Amy... I had a whole different image in my head.

[@thomasgabby6214]

You know you have watched so many science videos and studied it for a long time when you are able to answer a Dnews "question format" video title pretty accurately without having seen the video yet.

[@BernardZarifovic]

It would be cool if they where to talk about the EM drive in one of the upcoming episodes.

[@Runningrampage25]

Surprisingly I was reading an article the other day which said the moon billions of years ago used to have a very strong magnetic field and a heavy atmosphere but because of its low gravity it didn't last long and they surprisingly said that used to be liquid water on the moon as well

[@ericgolightly8450]

First mars, then venus, then mercury, and now the moon?

[@sinofheaven5960]

what is the smallest gravity well there can be that can hold onto an atmosphere?

[@alejandrolugo8743]

like... Could We Create A Livable Atmosphere On Earth?

[@hungtruong3383]

Alejandro Lugo We already did, we can't do that again like smash Comets into Earth. Hydrogen, isn't that common to form into a greenhouse gas. Even making hydrogen is impossible it's like the mixture of Co2 and helium.

[@ProunceProudly]

Alejandro Lugo no

[@alejandrolugo8743]

DenzelWashington 69 You're so dumb. lol any hoo. thanks, you made me laugh

[@Saanichian]

What a pleasure watching Amy develop as a host. Beauty, brains, and confidence!

[@tobylangdale95]

How does Titan hold on to its thick atmosphere? Does it have a magnetic field of it's own, or is it protected by Saturn's magnetosphere? Titan is admittedly slightly more massive than our moon, but markedly less than Mars. Just curious.

[@DonaldSleightholme]

i can't download the discovery go app in the Uk, it said not available 😔

[@rockbore]

Show me how Apollo was able to deal with the solar blast that blights other manned and non manned missions. I'm thinking of Skylab where the initial installation was almost abandoned due to solar heat and the failure of the array/sunshade to deploy. I'm thinking of the 1st moonwalk were Leonov said it was so hot he was frightened he would die. I'm thinking of the solar protection that is forever being replaced in HST and ISS. How was Apollo able to be exposes for 20 times as long as these with no problem.

[@ekming751]

Is there really potential water ice st the north or South Pole of the moon ,where the sun never shine there, could we build a colony around the water source ?

[@kanteshlamani4847]

So beautiful

[@scottyvarley5932]

Let's spend billions on trying to live on a dead surface. How about we put that money to better use like alternative energies ect..

[@carlosc.1568]

because there's already money in there

[@mixmacpro]

why not both?

[@unipalooza.]

Scotty Varley because there are always going to be problems on Earth. One of the main and most important ones is overpopulation, and not enough food. Moving to other places in the solar system, will create more living space, and if we do it right more food sources.

[@matti8621]

Well if you want humanity to live and die only on Earth, never exploring the universe... then you fund those alternative energy acts, but if you want to explore the universe then learning how to create biospheres we can live in on other planets is a good use of money.

[@Terring7]

Who not both? Why not solving all the problems we have here on Earth, while colonizing Space at the same time? "But it's too expensive". That's true, we don't have enough money to do this, but the real question is "do we have the knowledge, the tools, and the resources to do it?". The answer is positive. We can (and we should) solve our problems by using the methods we have today, like green cities, clean energy sources, scientific education, and redesigning our culture to be based on the caring capacity of our planet. Check "The Venus Project" to see how we can do it.

[@chadwickhjones]

Ancient humans killed Mars millions of years ago. :(

[@MaoRatto]

With nuclear warfare. T_T So we should TRY TO AVOID NUKES SADLY! Though we should use biological warfare but make it a short living virus.

[@mrliberty1776ma]

WHO were these so called Ancient humans you speak of?

[@chadwickhjones]

***** I told you... Ancient Humans. Duh.

[@mrliberty1776ma]

Chadwick Jones so the race of Ancient Humans were called the Ancient Humans? umm yeah that makes logical sense

[@jacksondavey4438]

Chadwick Jones and how did we do that thousands of years before we had spaceships and nuclear missiles?

[@dangerouspie0319]

Does that mean that a spacecraft with enough speed could orbit the moon just above its surface?

[@choibacco]

Heres one for Dnews in the spirit of this presentation: Could the atmosphere of Venus be frozen down by placing a giant solar sheet eclipsing the planet (geostationary orbit) between it and the sun reflecting light away and blocking particles? Could the runaway greenhouse be halted over time? how long and what would the atmosphere be/chemical composition if it were to be frozen down? Environmental impact and terraforming potential?

[@rph_redacted]

what if we create underground stations?

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

kunal pahuja Then you'd have underground stations on the moon.

[@rph_redacted]

Michael Simmons haha +1

[@srquack27]

That's the plan some private companies are working on while NASA focuses on Mars

[@gj9157]

The Gray Jedi You mean Elon Musk is focusing on Mars. Nasa isn't going anywhere. lol

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

JOSE THE GREAT Actually NASA does have Mars missions planned, another Rover and they def want to send people to Mars but I think they want to put people in Martian orbit first. So it's safe to safe the Musk and his company will get there first as far as a human mission goes.

[@left4deadian]

terraforming the moon would take thousands even millions of years.

[@left4deadian]

Carbon unless you have technology sufficient enough to do things like that in just under a hundred years then that would be improbable.

[@TheHelghast1138]

left4deadian no a military dictatorship could do it in a decade. Guns are great for motivating people, you would just have to give up the whole freedom thing.

[@ArchReverend]

I had a concept idea for terraforming mars. It would involve two orbital satellites that would tug on the planet's core either by some form of tractor beam like tech that could lock onto its core. OR two large asteroids (larger than phobos and deimos) to act as a balanced moons and pull on mars core via gravity. Both plans would need us to jumpstart the equation with a mega laser or something to heat the core so it could spin more freely then let friction keep the heat going. This would enable the planet to reactivate its magnetic field via the rotation of the cores metals. Then the geological activity would start back up and billow gasses into the atmosphere that, through weathering and possibly some chemical alteration from humans, would eventually form a liveable atmosphere if all be it a thin one. The process would most likely take a few hundred years on a human assisted and accelerated time table, not including time to develop the tech enact it, and at our current rate of over population, by that time were looking at a pretty poor state earth and mars would look less like a colony and more like a place to dump half the earth's population.

[@anonb4632]

MrSmiles9000 And land a few comets there. (Better there than the Moon where they could easily hit the Earth)

[@Nebukanezzer]

Pass me some of that weed

[@JorDay0828]

I've read that if we were to make artificial life on the moon, the gravity would be so low that manta ray creatures could fly around. Also trees would act like seaweed flowing in the ocean, moving back and forth.

[@danielalexandre89]

what kind of cheese is the moon made of?

[@jacksondavey4438]

Tasty

[@leemo142]

Mozzarella, so it's not really tasty, but makes a good adhesive for pizzas.

[@David_Last_Name]

American cheese, because no one else has been there. :)

[@MrGuzmanra]

David Stagg China went there

[@David_Last_Name]

Bob Guzman China landed men on the moon? I wasn't aware.

[@shazferouz]

So...wondering.. since Venus doesn't have a magnetosphere as well. Why does it have a thick atmosphere? Shouldn't it be stripped away like Mars and The moon? Also wouldn't terraforming nevus be better than the moon or mars since its closer to our gravity? Please enlighten me.

[@prabh-amrit]

can we live by creating and underground city or some environment beneath earth's surface

[@jameswilhite8522]

So many things went right with the Apollos. Hell they didn't miss a beat. 200,000 miles away and all came home unscathed. They got the air pressure and temp regulation just perfect. A perfect mission and after 72 we never went again. Not to mine, explore, colonize, build on, launch rockets from or study. Mission Accomplished NASA!

[@Xathos]

2:09 That point when you're unsure if Amy's left eyebrow is higher, or her bangs are really crooked.

[@joey_after_midnight]

Could we put a solar radiation shade in geosychronous orbit about the Moon to protect a single spot on the Moon like a Moonbase? I guess the Sun is big but a long ways away, there is no atmosphere to distort a shady disc shadow so being close it would have kind of sharp edges maximizing the coverage.. and it would make a cool eclipse disc. Come to think of it do Cosmic rays come from different directions stronger than others? Like from the Galactic Center? Maybe this could be applied to Mars too.. "Pick off" Solar, Jovian, and Cosmic rays with different orbital radiation parasols to sheild a colony on the surface.. daft?

[@aEpicAssassink]

Could you list some planets with strong enough magnetic fields for terraforming?

[@KohuGaly]

if we talk about planets which could potentially hause earthlike atmosphere than the list is: 1.earth 2. possibly venus If we expand the list to include moons than 4 main Jupiter's moons get added to the list. And that's pretty much it...

[@geekinutopia5899]

Well, Mercury has a magnetic field, so does Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Mars could be made to have a magnetic field.

[@Imtherealsirkadogan]

Wouldn't terraforming the moon change its reflection percentage and thus affect life on earth severely? This could be a nice topic for a video too, I'd like to see it discussed.

[@Arfshesaid457]

Sure is great to see you here, Amy.

[@mungkeyboi]

What I really want to know is why do we not hear what we really sound like? As in when we watch a video and/or recording of ourselves.

[@neoslayerpw8230]

As usual, DNews leaves me with more questions from the start But she was kinda hot so that made up for it

[@evhwolfgang2003]

The theme song makes me want to watch Archer.... I think it would be easier to fix Venus than Mars and especially the moon. Without a magnetosphere, there's no way air will stay.

[@macdietz]

thats a great intro 😂

[@RafaelRabinovich]

If we did terraform the moon and it started spinning faster, would that affect its orbit and the way I our see tides are timed?

[@garyk3478]

No to both questions.

[@David_Last_Name]

+Rafael Rabinovich Technically yes it would, but only on the time scale of millions of years (so nothing that we would ever notice). The moon is currently tidally locked to the Earth, so if you spun it faster it would gradually slow down over the course of millions of years until it was tidally locked again. Though I honestly can't remember if the act of tidally locking a moon to a planet causes the moon to drift further away, slows down the larger bodies rotation, or both. But it will definitely have some effect, it would just be too small to notice without careful measurements.

[@CausticLemons7]

Commenting in 2021, I hope Amy Shira Teitel can collaborate again. I think y'all are a great match!

[@ReverseMe]

Want to go to the moon, cause I'm not successful here on earth, especially on youtube...

[@Ryonu1]

Nice wink at 1:27 :)

[@Horesmi]

How about creating atmosphere in lava caves?

[@jebes909090]

AlHoresmi you could, but thats not what shes talking about. also liquid water dissapates seizmic activity, which actually does happen on the moon. a moon quake can last for a.long while earthquakes last for a.few minutes on earth. they last for hours/days/weeks on the moon

[@anonb4632]

AlHoresmi There is a problem with that which is some of these lava tubes might have small cracks in them which would act as leaks but would be hard to find. Also there is the issue of lunar dust which is brutal apparently - damages machinery and causes problems for the human body.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

It is indeed within our technical capabilities 🌹 It would take 100's of years yes. But in respect to all things on earth we will not ever ruin the moon, its perfect allready ❤ There are plenty of other things to do more worthwhile.

[@youtuber-war9339]

trading option which atmosphere on the moon is kind of too much to do so why not start off on a biome Dome

[@doublebubleguy12]

2:29 By not holding an atmosphere for very long she means about 2000 years for the people wondering. Not long in astronomical units but well within manageable by future humans.

[@starsantasta4351]

0:08 the answer is no.

[@phaedrus000]

The answer to what?

[@GregoryMcCarthy123]

Amy is so beautiful 😍😍😍

[@Rhike]

Nope.

[@adriannasantana3382]

Adan Emilda ya nasty

[@user-zz7gf2en6j]

Greg McCarthy not in my opinion

[@brace110]

Uhm no... she looks like somebody who looks COMPLETELY different without Makeup

[@John77Doe]

Kalani'opio low Ditto 😑

[@-whackd]

You could put a portable man-made magnetosphere at a lagrange point that protects the moon from solar flares.

[@PandaBubbah1]

according to NASA we have to get there first

[@hungtruong3383]

PandaBubbah1 No shit.

[@vongocnha8157]

+Hung truong nasa said we will get there in 2033

[@hungtruong3383]

Nhạ Võ Okay, does that even matter? They've been saying that for weeks now! We already know that NASA, is planning for manned crafts towards Mars.

[@phaedrus000]

NASA isn't super focused on Mars because sending people to live on Mars isn't really important for any scientific purpose. We can study it with rovers for far less expense and risk to human life. Let Musk waste his billions on a Mars colony if he wants. NASA is going to stick with unmanned missions because they are beholden to their funding source (i.e. the government). Besides, if we are going to build a base or a colony on another celestial body, the moon makes way more sense. Once we have a base on the moon, we can use it as a launching point for future space exploration missions. Spacecraft launched from the moon would require much less fuel than those launched from Earth. Escaping Earth's gravity is insanely expensive and since all the materials necessary to build rockets and make rocket fuel exist on the moon, If we are ever going to get serious about exploring the solar system, the moon needs to be our base of operations.

[@allninelivez7631]

Future humans who get to live on the moon will have a great view. Lucky bastards.

[@mikicerise6250]

Isn't a fairly significant percentage of the moon's atmosphere now Apollo exhaust? ;) Nothing is forever, including Earth's atmosphere, so the question is really is how quickly would a given atmosphere be blown off, how much energy would it take to renew it, and is it therefore economically viable to do it. If we have more abundant energy in the future it may become trivial, who knows. Obviously for the moment pressurised, isolated modules are the only viable option. I wonder how the dynamics of settlement would work on Titan. It has a very nice Earth-like atmospheric pressure, but it's bloody cold. I've read that if you had a very good heater and an oxygen mask, you wouldn't really need any other special equipment to survive on Titan. Titan seems like an attractive place. Bit far away mind.

[@retak4110]

DNews, could not we just live inside domes? Either on the Moon or Mars, it would be like an artificial atmosphere that'll last, plus mining it for platinum and helium-3. BTW, the hole Lunar atmosphere weights about 10 kg.

[@tacticalnewfie2922]

You people just make this shit up as you go lol.

[@alexpaysen4478]

neonlent 10t*

[@austindrapen8959]

neonlent well, yes, but that still leaves a whole slew of problems, the primary one being that the dust of the moon is microscopic and amazing at shredding suits and bubbles, sure, you could last a few months, but the repairs needed every week would be exponential and the cost astronomical. though we could probably also find solutions for this.

[@Wordavee1]

neonlent You have to build the domes first.

[@retak4110]

***** Why? we use the ones already built ._.

[@MrSirAussie]

Sure we can.........its the closest .......a great place to test all the future space travel and livability capabilities

[@stupidburp]

If we ever use the moon for large scale low G manufacturing then we might release a variety of gasses as part of that process. The moon might then gain a bit more very thin atmosphere for as long as that continues.

[@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu]

Because of it's low gravity and no magnetic field, it will lose an atmosphere quite fast. So what we need to do is pump the moon with the gases at the same rate it loses it to keep it stable. Or we could build some forcefield or dome to keep the gases. Imagine looking up in the sky to see a blue and green ball shining back.

[@PyroOfZen]

"Until recently." I had no idea that recently meant "Within 50 years." We've known about the moon having a very thin atmosphere for a long time, now. Ever since the moon landings, at least.

[@lobotimized7596]

The moon could best be inhabited by building domes..spray the insides with a fast hardening plastic. Seal it outside down near the ground. Build many like this and continue to expand the site. The more sophisticated equipment could come up in manageable pieces..

[@joshbh101]

how much copper cable would we need to make a magnetic field.

[@DarrenPhillipsSinger1]

We would need one hell of a DJ...

[@SurajKumar9611751619]

Wow!

[@heroknaderi]

Interesting

[@ericrawson4670]

no matter what planet you'll need a magnetisphere for sustainable life.

[@ursaltydog]

Creating an atmosphere, trying to replicate a spin, and terraforming in general would affect the earth's climate tremendously. Some of the major reason swe have tides and seasons is due to having a tidally locked natural satellite.

[@PaulJohnsonM]

By "spinning faster," do you mean spinning at all, as opposed to just wobbling around?

[@JAMAICADOCK]

how's about living inside the moon? Looks like a great natural space station if you ask me

[@StormSilvawalker]

large amounts of sulphur dioxide might be held enough to keep 1 atm surface pressure and everyone on the surface would sound hilarious until they suffocated from lack of O2.

[@trustjesusoursavior4179]

Yes can we do that by means of Nuclear Booster Rockets to push meteors that have enough acceleration to break gravitation force

[@oatlegOnYt]

Perhaps it could be a way. Not to replicate Earth, but build something in middle point. A only oxygen low pressure atmosphere and add reflection materials to the ecuator. Because lack of high quantities of water and high albedo, the temperature will be lower than Earth and most water would remain as ice, so water will lose a lot more slowly. There is large quantities of oxygen in Moon rocks, and with a surface atmospheric pressure of 0.2 Earth atmospheres. So, Moon could be like an Antartica. Moon surface would be protected from metheorites by a enough thicker atmosphere and there we could construct closed domed cities at 1 Earth atmosphere pressure with nitrogen just like Earth). A "disaster" will only loose the nitrogen and pressure. The people would survive and the surface would be protected. A middle point from completely terraforming and only paraterraforming. Partial terraforming to the point that someone could survive hours on surface and paraterraforming to create thrive in domed cities.

[@TommyTacks]

This is why I don't get the push for Mars. If we are just wanting to go a planet we can't survive on, we might as well just go to the moon. How much more mass is required to create enough pressure for a molten core? do we need to crash one of its moons, both or maybe the asteroid belt? Seems like a pretty tall order to go there first and artificially ignite a core that can't sustain itself.

[@ritanshushukla9160]

Well written episode.... i would advice paying attention to english a bit as it's "an atmosphere" not "a atmosphere"...😁

[@rrcczz]

this was recorded a while ago I think

[@Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

But the Moon Olympics would be the most amazing event ever.

[@akashgaur3489]

I have a question. How close we are creating anti-gravity?

[@johnbernard17]

*What would happen if Mars and Venus switch place? If Venus was the 4th planet in distance from the sun, it would have became habitable like Earth today. Venus is at least the right size because it has a strong enough gravity to hold on to its atmosphere compared to earth. If Mars was the second planet in distance from the sun, then the temperature would become like a hot oven. While Venus being the 4th planet in distant from the sun, the last thing it needs is a moon to stabilized its axis by creating seasons. So that it would make it much more suitable for us to live on another world.*