What If Humans Colonized Venus?

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[@grdfhrghrggrtwqqu]

if they are hiding aliens on venus, i hope that we impeach the HELL out of biden.

[@eXnub69]

No

[@Cassidy8783.]

No

[@jakubfrei3757]

@@Cassidy8783. Cool, less of competition

[@kanthakornkhamtara1897]

but mars is better for us to terraform

[@gunjanbhatt1083]

My brother intorduced this channel to me on lockdown now i am a big fan of this channel you give us a very good and intersting information about our planet

[@sethhamilton6219]

The reason why people are trying to make Mars habitable. it’s to be prepared for the day when the sun expands and earth becomes just like Venus

[@vitriolveio]

Newsflash! When the sun expands the entire solar system will be engulfed. So, while I still think it’s a good idea to start colonizing the solar system, that won’t protect us when the sun starts expanding

[@G17-g5c]

​@@vitriolveionews flash x2, humans won't exist to experience the expansion for we would've wiped ourselves way before than. Think next 100 years only

[@jonathanbenoit-mj9cv]

​@vitriolveio fr also idk why people are saying type 7 civilization is possible I think people are overrating human potential a bit to much cuz I've seen what people describe it like it's basically a civilization with godly powers I think type 4-5 will be our peak but we need to survive the sun

[@vitriolveio]

@@G17-g5c Well maybe we won’t, maybe we will. Either way I’ll be damned if we don’t at least try

[@sethhamilton6219]

@@vitriolveio The point is, people are trying to make Mars Habitable.

[@DandJ9]

You always make science way more interesting

[@sampathn4429]

not even science, this is BS,how can humans exists on venus??

[@ChrisMovieUniverse]

Venus= Crushes you, Hot , everyone wonders about you. My Ex=Crushes you, Hot , everyone wonders about you Thats about right.

[@linz8291]

lol...if your crush is your Mr. right, you two can have a wonderful holiday on the Venus.

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[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus." -- Stephen Hawking

[@nolan4339]

One fun Venus Terraforming idea is to simple build a new surface at the altitude with the better living conditions. Essentially, utilize the carbon in the atmosphere to build floating blocks or platforms, and then cover the planet with them. Push all the bad gasses beneath this manufactured surface and create a breathing air mix above, and have the surface super reflective so that it also helps regulate the planets temperature. I have heard that estimates on a timescale to actually do this based on the energy that would be available could mean it would be in the hundreds of years, rather than thousands. probably still not feasible though.

[@thundershadow]

I've always thought Venus was a better candidate. My contribution to this venture is to float an idea... Find a chemical way to change the reflectivity of the upper atmosphere rather than block the energy of the sun from space. Or possibly use both to drive the planet into an ice age and then let the planet warm up slowly to a target temperature to introduce extremophiles.

[@sahinyasar9119]

It is better candidate. Its just that we need to bioform planet to lower atmospheric pressure as well as eliminating acid clouds. Tbh acid is easy part. All you need to do first find iron deposit underground then mix them until no iron left then use left over h2 for cloud city to make water and use FeSO4(aq) to insulate the ground so you can capture acid in underground. If they have enough iron they can spread it thinly above clouds to dormenting acid clouds

[@thundershadow]

@@sahinyasar9119 Lower pressure comes with lower temperatures where most of the atmosphere is liquified. The Earth's atmosphere is comparable to Venus' except that the majority of our atmosphere is liquified into oceans.

[@sahinyasar9119]

@@thundershadow We still have thousands of years. If we keep making cloud cities by salvaging Oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen from atmosphere we might be able to block sun light one day then finally can cool it down

[@wanfuse]

If you cool Venus to minus 80*c the atmosphere mostly goes away, a lot of the acid can be absorbed in its liquid state first, then frozen and the remainder pumped beneath the ice in caves. Habitable zones will appear , day and night rotations, remaining atmosphere motion day to night would be extreme, sublimation, it would all need to be modeled. Completely frozen is probably the easiest “arctic “, “ is no picnic”. Colonize the moon and then other parts of solar system first. Build huge ship for 20% speed of light to more habitable places outside solar system. Same tech can bring us to the outer solar system in reasonable time. Not just nuclear but other tech possible today. Preferably before full AGI has been reached.

[@nolan4339]

If the planet could be cooled, I like the idea of condensing the CO2 into a liquid CO2 ocean and retaining it at that state. It would probably mean still having a pressure of about 10 atmospheres and temperatures in the -20 C range, but it would keep the planet unique.

[@MnSakib007]

Terraforming Venus makes much more sense than mars

[@326lindsey]

How? The goal of humanity expanding to another planet is survival of our species, which means Venus is not the ideal candidate because when the sun expands as it starts to fuse hydrogen into helium, mars is the only rocky planet that isn't destroyed in the process.

[@rebeccaantwibosiako5442]

Yh mars is not the size of Earth

[@JonaMondero]

true it has relates

[@PlanetGuy901]

Mars is farther from the sun which means that in the long run, terraforming Mars will save you from the sun’s increasing luminosity.

[@MnSakib007]

@@PlanetGuy901 are you talking about red giant phase? Even staying in the solar system would be dangerous at that stage I guess (if, and a big IF humanity survives till then, of course)

[@briandaleske5139]

I think it would be more difficult, to try to terraform planet:VENUS, then trying to terraform planet:MARS.

[@sonhuynh8222]

I think we should take care of Earth before me mess up another planet. We can’t even fix our own problems. Lol

[@briandaleske5139]

@@sonhuynh8222 I think if many genuine good, caring people come together, it might be possible to heal the planet of ours. Plus to add I think if some wealthy individuals, could use their money to buy devices, and machines to help out, it might give better chances. But I fear if that doesn’t happen, our planet might eventually reach its limit, and people might be forced to leave planet:Earth, to live elsewhere.

[@kgunknown7909]

Not difficult it is impossible to colonise on venus😂😂😂

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

In case you didn't know, 10000 days is 27.37 years, roughly the age of an adult.

[@parazels83]

Make a video. What if humans invested 10x more money in space exploration. What results would we have reached then?

[@majormarketing6552]

Nothing. You cant throw money at a problem and expect better results. The issue is corruption. They get billions for talking theory and creating bad cgi examples of theories. It makes it by far the most profitable business for least amount of results given in the world

[@TheMaestromMephisto]

I think Venus is where hell is

[@LordSalazarsRevenge]

If we could build a space-bridge from Transformers, we could move Mercury, or Io from their orbits around the Sun and Jupiter to orbit Venus instead in backwards rotations like Triton. The prescence of a moon could cause Venus to spin faster to reignite the magnetic field, and hopefully slowly rip a hole through the co2 and acid clouds, thus allowing the heat to finally escape into space. As for water, we first have to neutralize and remove the sulfuric acid as it finally forms liquid bodies on the surface, then use the space-bridge to remove Europa or Enceladus, or Pluto, and send them smashing into Venus to give it a better tilt for seasons and bring water

[@johnf7683]

What's not addressed here is the lack of a magnetic field on Venus. Any atmosphere you create that simulates Earth would be blasted away by the Solar Wind, much like the Martian atmosphere was when Mars lost it's magnetic field. If you could solve that, perhaps by deploying a magnetic dipole shield at the L1 Lagrange point, then more options open up. If you could do that for Venus, then you could do it for Mars as well.

[@majormarketing6552]

Better off on Titan

[@leotka]

It is easier to terraform Venus then Mars, much easier. Just drop pipeline from orbit and pump carbon dioxide on orbit. We can create artificial moon from CO2 and build factory on orbit which will produce oxygen, methane and graphene parts of spaceships and spacestations. Floating cities on 40-50km create camfortable life for humans. Temperature on surface will go done when atmosphere density will reduced. I would prefer start with Venus then with Mars. Mars is too far away, not enough power resources, poisonous soil and high radiation... Definitely Venus!

[@GlandularZorro-mu3nc]

Yep just give it. A magnetic field and hydrogen and your good to go

[@macwelch8599]

If I couldn’t colonize Mars, Venus would definitely be my second choice

[@JoutarouKuujou1]

what about the moon?

[@macwelch8599]

@@JoutarouKuujou1 the moon isn’t as appealing to me

[@locrianphantom3547]

@@macwelch8599Yeah, I’d prefer if we colonized a moon for it to be one with an atmosphere, like on of Jupiter’s.

[@macwelch8599]

@@locrianphantom3547 indeed

[@bossredd-77]

The moon is weeping

[@anuragtumane5227]

Colonizing Venus would not be an easy feat.

[@coreygiles6831]

I would love to see an what if we turn the moon into an intergalactic self-sustaining space ship and colonize it. Stealing power from stars as we travel the cosmos.

[@nekokid]

A "what if" scenario like this is amusing to see, but it'll only be a "what if" in the end. We should stop any conflict on Earth first if we want to be an Interstellar Civillization, which is impossible. Just let it be a science fiction for people like me😊

[@JonaMondero]

umm can i just say its quite akward but lets love earth not just leave it behind and find another planet for environment was my spelling right pls correct me anyways we have environment lets keep it in earth more sorry if was sarcastic

[@yaoiblfan]

What If We Save Earth?

[@Freedom_iwant]

What if astroid entered the chat

[@sziklamester1244]

Long term plans. Short term we currently does not have these technologies but in few century or millenia it will. It's a worth investment in my opinion.

[@marko-1987]

Na i can only see us moving outwards but saying that research stations could be set up easily in the future.

[@Libertas_P77]

I liked the footage of Orison in the gas giant in Star Citizen at the start. That actually isn’t the craziest option for humanity if we crack the technology for the floating platforms.

[@watchoutbinzillazabout5960]

i noticed this too lol

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

Neutral atmospheric buoyancy at around 0.8-1.2 atmospheres is the key to doing this safely. This could be achieved with balloons filled with lighter gases or, if I had to throw out a really wild guess, it would be that we can do away with balloon tech if we figure out how to make matter-antimatter composites that are structurally sound for the purpose of building platforms.

[@ionfreak83]

At 50 km above the surface, Venus is the most earth-like location in the Solar System. Its temperature is between 20C and 30C with the same gravity has Earth meaning no ill effects to the human body compare to planets with lower or no gravity. The atmospheric pressure is close to 1 atm meaning you don't need a pressurized suit but just air supply and a hazard suit to protect from the sulfuric acid which by the way at that height the haze layer thins out and sulfuric acid level drops out significantly. You don't have to worry about explosive decompression if something tears or rips thanks to the similar atmospheric pressure and your protected from solar radiation, thanks to the thick atmosphere which causes an induces magnetosphere. Besides better living conditions, getting to Venus takes less time, about 3 to 5 months compare to 6 to 10 months to Mars. This means less exposure time to micro gravity while traveling to Venus and being closer also means shorter launch windows. Another advantage for a trip to Venus is actually benefiting for a Mars mission. You can use Venus as a gravity assist to go to Mars meaning shorter total mission time, more frequent launch window, dramatically reducing the energy needed for the trip like saving fuel and weight therefore saving cost.

[@nolan4339]

You should really delve into the reasons for why such floating Venus habitats might be valuable beyond just expanding the human presence in the solar system, because making an economical reason to develop Venus can take a leap in logic. Personally, I think the in-atmosphere infrastructure and development could become quite valuable as a support mechanism for space developments around the planet. If we start getting ambitions with space mega-projects, we probably won't want to endanger and risk polluting the navigation space around Earth with some mega development, so it could be quite advantageous to instead locate such projects in orbit of Venus, where there is plentiful solar energy available. And if you are going to need personnel to be nearby to work on and direct such projects, having a haven with gravity and radiation protection within the atmosphere would make a lot of sense. So I can see the majority of a remote workforce stationing and rotating themselves within Venus atmospheric habitats. And if you get enough developments and expansions of these colonies, you will eventually have enough recreation activities to keep a permanent or even native population occupied beyond the constant work of maintenance and developments. Also, it would be very advantageous for habitat developments to be very spacious in order to create additional lift, so it is unlikely that occupants would be feel too constrained after it is moderately developed. Beside, such facilities will likely mostly be maintained through automated systems and AI, so it shouldn't be completely up to massive amounts of human labor to keep them running, Rather, I think the purpose of having people there should be so they can provide their efforts towards exterior projects, so if the interior systems cannot be mostly automated, then the value in having people there significantly decreases.

[@Go2hell-fulgybitch]

Wrong venus is bigger therefore has a stronger gravity don't know where you got your information from but iys way off

[@nolan4339]

@@Go2hell-fulgybitch Bigger than what? Earth? While Venus has a lot more atmosphere than earth, it has a smaller diameter at the surface and less overall mass with gravity around 91% that of Earth. The most attractive points of Venus is that it has Earth-like gravity and an atmosphere capable of shielding people from radiation. The extreme heat and pressure at the surface just means that it would limit people to the upper atmosphere where pressure and temperature is more earth-like.

[@Go2hell-fulgybitch]

@@nolan4339 everything you just said WRONG way off the gravity is exactly the same on venus as on earth NO DIFFERENCE WHATEVER both ate exactly the same in gravity density mass and ratio only difference is atmosphere one is nitrogen and oxygen with trace gases the other is completely carbon and sulphur dioxide one has water the the other hasn't

[@comradejames7813]

we would not waste human life like u have described. Theres a reason we havent done that already

[@NiluGupta141]

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[@roguemajin46290]

first part is to clean the air as much as possible for awhile we already got the ability to extract diff cem from the air slowly taking away the dangerous cems from the atmosphere would have to be the first step fs 😅

[@kimbratton9620]

What If is a great time passer!!

[@ardennielsen3761]

$7500 Trillion dollars, is what would be removed from the global energy sector for complex mineral extraction synthesis... just to source material for an observatory. "that's a global debt per person of $14 million dollars!"

[@ardennielsen3761]

$170'000'000'000/person if your looking at the population that actually dictates and used those resources... everything from having nails to build houses to tools of any kind, even if the tools were made in the bush in some primitive way. total confiscation by state, to the sum of 2.3gigaTons of iron per person globally.

[@ajinkyababar6072]

Instead of all that, have the same cloud cities above our own earth or even moon

[@chrisherndon2323]

I guess if we move to venus we become the Jetsons 😂😂😂😂

[@dannydecasas9996]

Could you make, What if the moon had a molten surface?

[@Mercurio-Morat-Goes-Bughunting]

If you want to terraform Venus, you'll have to remove most of the atmosphere. That will solve the pressure problem and most of the heat issues. Not all of them. Venus still gets a generous supply of sunlight and, for that, you're going to need a lot of water. The idea is that a cloudbase will reflect a sufficient amount of sunlight to make things liveable, while the oceans will supply water to give the atmosphere the necessary heat capacity to transport equatorial heat to the poles. You might want to get the rotation back to something more earth-like or you'll be cooking one side and freezing the other. Dragging Titan out of it's orbit and depositing it on Venus might be a good starting point but I think we're still in science-fantasy land here. To build a city in the clouds, blimps or balloons filled with low density gas are a pretty good starting point towards neutral density platforms but, as research into antimatter progresses, perhaps we can find ways to combine antimatter elements into matter-antimatter composites which will be lighter than conventional materials and allow the production of viable construction materials with the same mass density as air at one atm. The biggest problem for cloud cities is lack of regolith. You can't produce long-term viable crops from hydroponic systems without materials such as crushed scoria, humus, limestone, etc. from which to form the basis of soils with the necessary mineral content for long term food production because fertiliser doesn't magically turn into minerals. Arguably, you also need viable fungal networks living within the soil for everything to function as expected and, to top things off, plant growth cycles are impacted not only by seasons but also by lunar cycles and we still haven't ascertained whether this is driven by variations in nighttime luminosity or variations in net gravity. We haven't even done permanent habitation at sea, much less in our own atmosphere or in desert locations which lack water sources and I think that speaks volumes about the viability of colonies on planets like Venus or Mars.

[@danielpierce3197]

This tech works a lot better on Neptune. You can directly make plastics from it's Methane and it has Helium-3 in vast quantities.

[@bobklk51]

Loving the clips from Star Citizen. 😎

[@Maliaombewa]

I really love this video keep it up 😊❤

[@matthewforte3570]

could a terrarium orbs concept full of resilient algae or photosynthetic organisms which circulate oxygen with the venutian atmosphere also be able to float in the goldilocks zone of the atmosphere? and could enough of such devices be capable of gradually terraforming the planet?

[@jaimerivera1898]

Wolfenstein The New Colossus offers a pretty nice portrayal of science fiction putting us on Venus.

[@anwarramathn1345]

The more you watch these videos, the more you wanna protect earth

[@lukewright9031]

10:29 😂😂 it sounded like got censored

[@mayukich.1379]

Team 7 minutes! Let's go!!!! ❤

[@mikete714]

So the jetsons was on Venus ?

[@robertwalhout8982]

Terra forming Venus atmosphere would be a very costly first challenge but doable in about 100 years or so. Pressures would be naturally evaporated into space. Water must be added. Luckily, there's lots of that in the solar system. All else would follow.

[@Ironstarfish]

Earth will be like venus anyway, if we dont get filtered out by a large event by then

[@dariantucker3261]

I really don't understand why people would even think to go to venues surface. It is so hot down there. If I were any of those scientists I would also think not to even think about going there and if we did go there, live in sky cities built from the ground up. That is a little more challenging but would be more likely to have less problems than living on the surface of Venus. That is only my opinion but everyone has their own so... that is what I think we should do instead of living on the surface.

[@chrismirwnitis2029]

I think hell is Venus

[@NO1jkpg]

The moon and mars, is obvious but in the long run we need to expend to have a colony on every planet in the system to learn more and if we get that far to terrformed the whole planet.

[@Nothing_to_see_here005]

Cool vid 😎👍

[@xSolitari]

I'm 14 years old, and just in case Venus let you down, here is to give you all hope: 1. In 2025, NASA is putting 4 people on the Moon's south pole for a week because they found water ice. 2. Elon Musk will put a man on Mars by 2030. 3. Commercial space travel/trips will be available in your lifetime. 4. If humans mass produce Borophene or Graphene soon, then we will have the material that will be used for deep space travel (best durability + least weight + electroconductivity). 5. Nasa plans on putting humans permanently on the Moon by 2050. 6. There are 303 celestial bodies (moons, planets, etc.) in our solar system alone. One of the moons has its own atmosphere, Pluto and 6 other moons have water on them, with more evidence being discovered every day. I remembered these off the top of my head, so fact check them if you'd like, but its crazy to think that our generation will be the first ever cosmic generation in history.

[@shristisingh_634]

Same vro , I'm also 14... And the fact of permanently colonizing moon in my lifetime gives me a sense of inner satisfaction.

[@tfkdandsvkc]

You got all.this crap from chat gpt not top.of your head.

[@xSolitari]

Nope ;)@@tfkdandsvkc

[@xSolitari]

Ok some dates were moved back for 1 or 2 things, but all of it is still in the very near future

[@fahimredwan]

Love what if videos🥰🥰🥰

[@ThePhobos100]

If humans do colonise on Venus, in a way you are not preparing for when the sun turns into a red giant, you are going closer to the sun.

[@itwontbeTV]

It's funny how the Jetsons seem to make more and more sense when you watch this 😅

[@abelardlindsey7579]

I say forget about Venus. Just go with O'Neill style habitats, preferably in the outer solar system where you don't have to deal with the solar flares.

[@EduPublica]

Mr. Peter Schmiedchen did u allow the copyright to a lemar tv production in Afghanistan who copy ur content and cast it on tv in afghani language dubbed ???

[@alexandertaylor1225]

Very cool video, thank you.

[@grim6392]

It makes me mad that the soviets aren't getting credited at all for exploring venus.

[@RiMiL.BaSkI.]

Thumb up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@xiozgamingnnn]

nice

[@L_14-y8h]

What if once humans turn a specific age, we could choose to stop aging at any time or what if the sun never exploded

[@LordCritish]

0:16 Star Citizen footage.

[@Neogentronyx]

Saw some Star Citizen in there! 👨‍🚀

[@AcademiaProSolutions]

Maybe invest money and time on trying to get to Kepler 22b instead?

[@Mycoh]

What if every concerts all around the world are all in one spot or place at once?

[@beyondview]

Is there a what if series of not recycling videos and topics?

[@arinrayscumdump]

How about let's just spend all the money on undoing the damages we did on Earth rather than spending billions on trying to find another planet?

[@medidawedney6514]

Wasting time observing even if they already know no one life can survive

[@SUSUtkarsh]

make a vidoe on what if we inhale inert gases till atomic no. 86

[@amruthdesaraju5665]

Bombarding Venus with 3*10^24 Kg of Potash lime could make Venus Earth like.

[@Aftabhussain56g]

May be in Type 5 Civilization it would be possible to populate Venus.

[@lunkwill714]

Nope, it's Type 2 Civilization that does it, it's a part of progression into Type 3

[@locrianphantom3547]

Yeah, it’s Type 2 because type 2 means complete control of a star system’s energy. That also means colonizing all feasible/wanted planets.

[@endymir3X]

Currosive weapons might become a thing sponsored by Maliliwan

[@Dubistgenial]

Maybe Stockten Rush from Ocean Gate can invent a Submarine for Venus?

[@she_got_nochills]

Lmaooo sh*t went dark 💀

[@ashleynorilus]

Venus alters the universe

[@Levimoi345]

While other try to look for other planets....I think it's best I go to heaven. This is my opinion in case you read this comment 😅

[@MrMirville]

Sending an astronaut is absurd : what is needed to see the things from near is a deep-diving submarine like the bathyscaph.

[@Run-e17]

Did you know that Venus is named from the goddess of beauty that makes no sense

[@kennethdelacruz4444]

What if we transport ciano bacteria it transform carbon atmosphere of venus to be oxygeneted atmosphere fisrt

[@nolan4339]

Even if we could float a bunch of photosynthesizes in the atmosphere and get them to survive, we would still need to harvest them and sequester their captured carbon in order to make any difference. Otherwise they just fall back the surface, smolder and release it all back out.

[@lionelmessithegoatLM10]

Same thought. Cyanobacteria could do the trick

[@pand9293]

You forgot to mention that Earth and Venus have the same gravity.

[@darinwatts8116]

U made 1 mistake. 5000 days is actually 13 years. Not 6.

[@nikitahans2209]

My kid likes your channel he watch your video every day in tv

[@sexygeek8996]

Your balloon descends toward the surface very slowly and you have no way to stop it.

[@ky1ebetts]

The universe will end Earth before humanity goes interstellar.

[@AngelofDeath333]

Russian Probes couldn’t last 15 minutes on Venus

[@robertsouth6971]

Block the sun so it goes down to 30 below zero. Most CO2 will become liquid at 10 atmospheres of pressure and 30 below. Instant oceans. Marginally bearable temperature and pressure. Crack some CO2 for oxygen too.

[@Human_01]

'Habitation' is a much better term than "colonisation". It is less misguided. Anyway, this was a great vid! 👏✨

[@Lilmiket1000]

Lmao is that star citizen footage?

[@Bean69595]

Earth

[@nadeeshadissanayaka2015]

gas balloons? cloud colonies. Gee you better not take any pins over there

[@flyingfox8072]

I have been planning for a while to push Mars out of its orbit and place it in earths orbit keeping maximum seperation. Hey... We have two earths there ready to occupy. (neglect "G")

[@sages101]

Why would you want to move closer to the sun? lmao.

[@wildmountainbear9117]

If your planning to terraform Mars or Venus?? 😅 That would take thousands of years. It would actually be more realistic to develop Interstellar Space craft to search for habitable Planets.

[@pedrosmith4529]

Still better than Barcelona.

[@apocraphontripp4728]

How much you wanna make a bet that theres an ocean of water under the surface of venus?

[@jryan506]

So yeah let's move closer to the sun 👍

[@Rmm1722]

wow

[@malakadil]

First we need to go beyond the moon .

[@myedoxx]

Before thinking about settling on Mars or Venus, people need to learn to live on their planet, and not start wars and choose, or sympathize with dictators.

[@srikanthsv79]

All animals kill to survive

[@doctorheretic1417]

10,000 Days on Ceres.