What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mars?

Spending 5 seconds on Mars without a helmet is NOT a good idea. But let me tell you how we got there. Ah, the red sky of Mars. The red planet and our potential new home. Well, Mars isn't as hospitable as it sounds. It's really inhospitable.
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[@TripleKing310]

“If you think Uranus smells bad” got me dead

[@dikshant-fingerstyletutorials]

me too💀, and yeah as soon as i heard that i looked into the comments for this one

[@gold19387]

That's why I call Uranus stinky smelly rotten egged looking smelly planet 😂😂😂😂💀😂

[@gold19387]

And makes me laugh super hard😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂

[@sarmamadhavan]

They did that on purpose 😂😅

[@ELLIOTNEWPIP]

Wow..... really wasn't that funny at all

[@MilanaM125]

“What do you mean we sacrificed Chase!? Oh sorry I meant we ‘sent’ Chase 😂😂😂

[@shyamaldas1841]

Funniest of the video 😂😂😂

[@Runroom34565]

Science and technology have filled our age with convenience and success. Thank God for these blessings.

[@scorch33]

I feel sorry for Chase here. He built a pretty decent living space with all the amenities, only to have the animators kill him off to prove a point.

[@AlmostEthical]

Mars's atmosphere is so thin that even its fastest winds would not be strong enough to blow you around.

[@jem2886]

What happens when you get your facts from a movie surely this has lost this channel a lot of credibility

[@drake-dl6ic]

“Take that Matt Damon” Lol

[@luisa.barrueta1822]

Says Jimmy Kimmel lol

[@nice-bg]

Camera man never dies 😂

[@mohamedmubarik7]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shiningstone6771]

The camera never dies

[@xolidasafarova1057]

😂😂

[@PessiThePenaltyDog]

Joke not funny anymore

[@toddkurzbard]

He's got a working helmet.

[@charliehorse8686]

The problem with Mars is, it LOOKS like some areas of Earth. That's a problem because it means lives will be lost TRYING to colonize it. Here's an idea: Terra-form EARTH so we can live in more places! (Such as ice caps, under water, or deserts which could become lush and green.) Way easier, and the travel time is months shorter, and you can even have live video calls with your relatives! Oh and Earth happens to have Earth-like gravity (more than any other planet) so your bones won't wither away and the muscles won't atrophy.

[@animebrat76]

This guys a riot, the sarcasm is oozing off the screen. Not that this person isn’t right though

[@user-gk5eu6ft2q]

You are right, besides if we move to Mars and behave like on Terra, we'll destroy it too!!So ,until we learn to behave better and live in armony it's not worth it! We should fix all the problems we have here and live happily ever after!❤

[@KNByam]

People think if we occupy another planet, it will be some utopia. Facts are, we're just going to turn another planet into the one we escaped.

[@Vlasko60]

That makes too much sense for some of us.

[@RealGigaMind]

Desert is already being turned green.

[@George.Coleman]

I need to correct you. Martian atmosphere is so incredibly thin that the cold wouldn't affect you like it would on Earth. A cup of coffee would freeze in Antarctica alot faster than on Mars (making up for the lost water through evaporation on Mars initially as it cools enough to stop boiling and marking the freeze at 0°C and not -40 odd where it freezes in a near vacuum. Also, human skin is so resilient, it keeps the pressure inside your body meaning in a vacuum your body might be at 0.7 atm (Earth) your blood doesn't boil. Only exposed liquids, saliver, sweat, tears will boil. You'd probably have to physically close your eyes tight to prevent them being popped out but you could survive for as long as it would take to pass you probably 15s max. So your astronaut would have made the 5 second distance, and the cold wouldn't do a thing

[@leecowell8165]

No pressure think about that. we live under 15psi. That's a LOT! not having that pressure being applied externally on every INCH of our surface would be catastrophic. It would take a coupla minutes to kill you though, not a coupla seconds like what was depicted in movies like Total Recall, Outland, Blade Runner. You would suffocate but wouldn't be conscious by that time.

[@FragMentt]

@@leecowell8165 Blade Runner? What was in that about Mars?

[@NeptuneUSAplanet]

The atmosphere is so thin on mars that there is no oxygen in the atmosphere. Scientists believe that mars was once have life but the environment became too cold for life. So less than a minute you prob won’t survive in such environment.

[@ericf7063]

Forgetting a couple of things. Our bloods capacity to carry oxygen. We have a PaO2, which is oxygen bound directly to the hemoglobin. Then we have an O2 content, that's the total amount of oxygen dissolved within our tissues, plasma etc. And lastly, we have the RBC's (red blood cells). More RBC's, more oxygen can be stored and vice versa. I think we'd be good for as long someone could hold their breath.

[@KNByam]

​@leecowell8165 Wait, if that's the case, then how come Kryptonians don't explode when they come to earth?

[@glitchedgamer3152]

damn ur videos have improved so much its so entertaining i love it this new style is so amazing the conversation between chase and rico was amazing keep it up

[@quawrld_5016]

what i was saying been watching his videos for years i love the new change very unique

[@glitchedgamer3152]

@@quawrld_5016 exactly brother Same here

[@Human_01]

Right? ^^

[@stinstan747]

Here here 👏👏 the videos are hugely entertaining

[@fallenknighttyler8695]

"If you think Uranus smell bad Mars smells like rust and gunpowder" That second one doesn't smell bad

[@ericparrish1515]

Rust could be iffy

[@PANZERFAUST90]

"lEaRn tHe mEtRiC sYsTeM" 😂

[@chrisderidder4087]

Yeah its the best system for sure

[@jburton413]

Can we all just take a minute and acknowledge and appreciate the fact that this man gave his life making this video for us!?!? Bravo sir, well done…. Extremely well done 👍….. your memory will live on forever my friend 😢 👌 💪 😉

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

Been done before

[@KevyB.]

Another copycat comment

[@ProdAuxz]

That would have been funny if u came up with it

[@jburton413]

@@ProdAuxz yeah by me! I was the first person on the internet to come up with such jokes…. Therefore I get to keep telling them…. 😜

[@Dan-zq5wt]

Really creative and a great script! Very professional. Well done

[@vamsisai4455]

if the martian movie has an alternate ending, this is it

[@Enzo012]

Matt Damon laying on the Martian surface doing whole the Total Recall thing would be a nice ending there.

[@PenelopeCooper77777]

Love this educational channel! The host's enthusiasm and clear explanations make complex subjects easy to understand and enjoyable to learn.

[@MilanaM125]

The way he said over there is a window with excitement and then got disappointed got me dyin’ rn

[@debrawehrly6900]

Elon Musk should volunteer himself to go live on Mars

[@travishylton6976]

That's fraud would never do that he loves himself too much he should send his fanboys

[@joelbartor]

He actually wants to

[@d00fuswmne7]

We have confirmation an 11-year old has watched this video

[@CelestialInsights_]

Boy are these fantastic! Your contents are always amazing. Keep up the great work!

[@wseucan]

One´s got to love Chase. He´s so funny giving his live entertaining us 😅. I like how he is talking too.

[@Skylanderboss21]

I love how he takes 5 seconds and turns it into 8 min

[@Zurround]

You could totally survive if you were running from one airlock to another and were without a suit for no more than maybe 30 seconds.

[@Myria83]

More like 10-15 secs (in space; not sure about Mars).

[@greg6162]

@@Myria83I think you’d do better on Mars without a spacesuit than the vacuum of space. That’s not saying much though… neither one is ideal. But until we get some real world data that question will be scientific guesses. I mean it’s going to be a hazard regardless. The surface of the Moon is like talcum powder… not sure how Mars is. I’m sure it varies. I’m still more interested in Antarctica until we land on Mars though… if we ever do (mankind)

[@yomelo]

You live in Mars?

[@juslitor]

as thin as the atmosphere is at mars, it wont matter.@@Myria83

[@JoseLuceroRodriguez]

why would the vacum kill him in five seconds. There is no explanation. From all i see in internet 5 seconds wouldnt even be enough to lose consciousness

[@MikeThaPhilosopher]

I wish they taught us like this in school.. i would’ve seriously consider becoming something to do with space

[@RavindraSoni360]

and now you are here, mr philosopher 😂😂😂

[@jacobchavez4719]

With lots of KZbin channels, doing the same, it’s hard to find creativity and originality. Loved this video! Subscribed!

[@EYE.OF.CYCLONE]

You always create the videos which topics I think.❤ Thank you

[@echetlos]

Atmosphere on Mars is so thin that storms are very weak, so he could walk easily to his shelter.

[@ravikishoresubravet]

The atmosphere on Mars is not thin......it is only thinner than the Earth but factually it is impossible to walk or sustain in a storm on Mars for even 3 seconds. The storms are much stronger ( 6 miles per hour )

[@echetlos]

@@ravikishoresubravet It is really thin, storms are weak, low gravity.

[@lucianoosorio5942]

David Bowie: Is there life on Maaaaaarrrrrsss? Elton John: Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it’s cold as heck, and there’s no one there to raise them if you did.

[@Winter_bey]

4:37 sounds like he did Duolingo Spanish lessons 😂😂😂😂

[@Hakutara]

Bro even Duolingo is Martian! 😂😂😂

[@northside7772]

Love these videos and looking forward to more (likely extremally inhospitable) planetary adventures. I was wondering if the high winds in the Martian dust storms would actually not knock someone down due to the very thin atmosphere. I read this in one of Astronomer Phil Plait's articles.

[@MoniqueangeliqueLumpkin]

u are all crazy, we are not made for space., never will be, just ask god

[@rababkazmi162]

I just love when the astranot says what do you mean scrafice 😂😂

[@tylilawilliams5898]

I wonder if chase is AI bc he looks kinda odd and creepy

[@BigMobe]

Thermal conductivity should be a considered when discussing how cold or hot something is. In a vacuum, you would stay warm for a while even if the temperature was negative 200 because the only way to get rid of heat is radiation. With Mars being really cold it probably wouldn't matter much since the atmosphere is so thin. I would be more concerned with radiation from cosmic rays than anything and poisonous dirt that would grow poisonous plants.

[@cabezzadevaca4157]

Good observation. Furthermore, Mars does not have nitrogen, and without nitrogen they cannot grow anything.

[@therealbeedubbs35]

@@cabezzadevaca4157in the fertilizer?

[@iswantokorompot7356]

in a glass dome and synthetic nitrogen it is possible for plants to grow mars

[@leecowell8165]

I'd be a LOT more concerned about the lack of pressure! 5 seconds with no pressure. More than enough time to kill you, I would expect.

[@Mistymist9000]

"At least it doesn't smell as bad as Uranus" got me rolling

[@AcidGlow]

I suddenly got reminded of that scene on *Total Recall*

[@Remy4300]

These videos are just my late night thoughts😂

[@shiningstone6771]

Even if cameraman dies, the camera never dies.

[@Okafor1000]

Applauds for the PUN. 😂😂

[@kristine2090]

Watching Chase - at least I'm not the only one being sacrificed all the time 😂

[@sheyinjapheth5954]

The shape of that space ship though😂😂😂

[@tommywatterson5276]

The most breathtaking 5 seconds of your life

[@Wild_Wonders_animals]

🚀 Taking a 5-second trip to Mars without a helmet-thrilling or terrifying? 😱 Imagine the breathtaking views, the eerie silence, and the unknown mysteries of the red planet. Would you dare, or is it a journey too far? Share your thoughts! 👨‍🚀🔴

[@foxmccloud7055]

Five second trip to Mars without a helmet and spacesuit would be way too far for me. The reason why is that the gases in my body would immediately expand, my blood would be boiling due to reduced atmospheric pressure, and also the lack of oxygen. After five seconds without a helmet and spacesuit, I would be trading my astronaut wings for a more permanent variety (consisting of wings, robe, halo, and a harp).

[@luchiandacian8815]

Silence? I think there are winds and sand storms....well because of the thin atmosphere may be not so noisy but still something. The speed of sound over there is 2 times slower. I expermented total silence on mountains in the winter time. It is indeed something. Or deep in the ground.

[@jimandersen3003]

you can survive outer space for 30+ seconds so considering Mars has atmosphere, 5 seconds doesn't sound right. Also, co2 is abundant so we can find a way to get oxygen and grow plants.

[@rosemaryrogers1478]

What breath taking view? Not a tree in sight...no sound...no music..not one bird...what’s so breath taking? Except when you take your helmet off..” breath taking” alrite🔥🔥🔥

[@rizzo-films]

A 5-second trip to Mars at all is extremely fast. Faster than light, even. If you can do that you probably have a pill or something that can make you invincible.

[@TheGDSeries]

I feel bad for chase, he worked so hard on the base 😢

[@diehardcynic]

your what if videos are gold

[@berywildbrielle]

Hilarious. I was binge watching these and by my 3rd trip to google to convert the metrics, I said “I really wish they taught us this in school”… now I have closed captions 🥰

[@christiabacon8001]

Chase is one funny character!

[@janedupree2327]

He froze and his blood boiled. Mars is a vacuum.

[@brainardjasul7686]

7:38 Said "Don't try this on your own."..... Like yeah not in a million chance 🤣

[@Prakash-NITian]

Thanks for nice informative videos

[@sahilsingh0929]

I’m never gonna be old enough to not laugh at Uranus jokes

[@ProjectWasHere]

i like how he has plot armor beacuse he was on uranus and then revived to be in mars

[@vitalykartavykh1003]

Poor Chase! Why did you tell us so much about his habitat so we got attached to him emotionally if you wanted to kill him anyway? It feels like losing a friend.

[@threezero4491]

Where can I get the rig for this animation? I would appreciate if you could share it.

[@masona049]

5 seconds on Mars. So like by the time u take off ur Helmut ur basically dead. U won't even be able to get one breath. So how can u smell somthing when u would even be able to get even a breath.

[@soulfullportrait147]

I love how chase could smell Uranus but not Mars 😅

[@idopeor4286]

Damn your video improved so much since the last time I watched them

[@GABEPLAYZ-ou9nl]

Please do NOT swear

[@idopeor4286]

@@GABEPLAYZ-ou9nl huh?

[@roberttaylor9825]

Chase should have watch "Total Recall" before going to Mars.

[@angiesworld8038]

0:08 Potential new home? HA! you're funny.

[@Narrowgaugefilms]

I think I've heard the water recycling on the International Space Station described like this: “Today's coffee is also tomorrow's coffee!” -we do the same thing on Earth, it's just the turnaround time is usually longer!

[@ricstormwolf]

With his condescending remark about the metric system, I'm kinda glad Chase never lasts long in these videos.

[@Enzo012]

He's cocksure.

[@Bidensclassifiedocuments]

The metric system is for loser countries

[@nickmtl2570]

Is there an uncensored version of this video where we can see what happens to him when he dies?

[@GuardianOfRlyeh]

that storm wouldn't be so bad. The pressure on Mars is so low that even a storm should feel like a breeze

[@toddkurzbard]

This poor Chase dude gets ALL the worst assignments.

[@MagicianDisco]

Damn that astronaut is super positive. I wish i had that kind of can do attitude.

[@Hamppzah]

3:28 such a good joke 😂

[@Arachnos1]

Me: Sees Chase Also me: Oh look its the guy who went deep into Uranus

[@JosephSmith-xy4lp]

We decided to sacrifice chase for this mission. Chase: you are going to do what to me?

[@Myria83]

You would actually have around 11 seconds or so before passing out... but you get the idea. Vacuum esposure sucks the air out of your lungs (they... kind of explode, if your mouth is closed).

[@juslitor]

11 seconds is a theoretical maximum, 50% of the population would succumb before that.

[@christopherjohnson1803]

Arnold has been there...."Get your ass to Mars..."

[@Remy4300]

7:08 he became coyote Peterson😂

[@ueda6512]

bro i actually went to mars for a couple of weeks back in the days. nothing crazy happened tbh, I just hanged out with the boys.

[@ErwinSchrodinger64]

LOL. Arnold went on Mars and he didn't die.

[@minatonamikaze5841]

My dumbass saw the notification and thought you’re talking about a motorcycle helmet 💀🗿

[@MeyersFamily15]

😂

[@shanehall75jamaicangamer12]

Do venus next lol wanna see how long he can survive there

[@mitchellchapman2954]

1 second... you'd be crushed into oblivion then cremated with 400 degree heat 😂😂

[@shanehall75jamaicangamer12]

@@mitchellchapman2954 they can give a special suit that can make survive longer 😅

[@climatixseuche]

as others pointed out, dust storms would have almost no effect as the atmosphere is not dense enough

[@yootae13]

“If you think Uranus smells bad” 😭😭😭😭😭

[@stefanorenzi9950]

Very nice video! I think we'd need much more than only 5 seconds to die (or pass out) on Mars without helmet, though.

[@leecowell8165]

It would take a coupla minutes. But you'd lose consciousness very quickly probably within 10-15 seconds. You'd suffocate. Air would rush out (freezing your nose and mouth) but none could come in because there ain't any. The saliva in your throat and mouth would boil as well very quickly. Horrible way to go...

[@NeptuneUSAplanet]

Chase literally recreated a habitat from matt Damon from the martian 🤣

[@junechris]

You'd end up a live total recall candidate...lol

[@scottvincent184]

What if the movie "Passenger's" is a real possibility? I honestly love that movie, and wonder of all the places we could visit over thousands of years..

[@CommanderandDJ]

Yes it does, I would love to be in a video so Zefeated, the developer for Tower Battles: Battlefront could be the commander, and I’ll be the DJ talking too.

[@johnechono2287]

good way to explain and make visual learners learn good

[@leohors852]

What animation program are you used for this video?

[@cienciadeum]

“It could easily cut through my spacesuit” Here in San paulo it is 155 k/h, and it didn't cut through my sponge

[@turnerthomas5627]

If I think to spend 10 minutes on I’m dead ha oooooh yelling yeah

[@creatable1470]

That makes me wanna go to Mars but not with the helmet though

[@Nandhana__77]

My man will never dies. I thought that u turns into diamond💎

[@nathanricketts1439]

It would be like total recall, although I’m probably showing my age mentioning that 😂😂😊

[@Marinealver]

It's Chase's arch nemesis, MICROMETEORITE

[@kittykatiecat]

"If you thought Uranus smells bad, the red planet smells of rust and gunpowder." Honestly, I'll take that over the smell of farts.

[@fortitudevalance8424]

Just like that scene in the original Total Recall.

[@kuroimae-ashihorbuch-kanal6537]

I appreciate the work you put into your videos; the animations are well done and the feeling of being 'there' is quite real. *But* you were showing a lot content before the one question your clip was supposed to answer to. So the question "What happens if" imho is only solved quiet poor. You said, the pressure would kill a human being without wearing a helmet. How big is this pressure? Can you compare it to the pressure a diver must bear under water? At which level?

[@andrej1953]

The highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km above the Earth's surface. The resulting mean surface pressure is only 0.6% of that of the Earth (101.3 kPa).

[@rockyfire101]

NOW THIS VIDEO IS CALLED WHAT IF? THE REAL VIDEO ❤. SUPER INFORMATIVE PLUS FUNNY IT WAS AMAZING LOT'S OF LOVE FROM INDIA 🇮🇳 GUY'S LOVED IT JUST AMAZING 🎉...

[@ladymbungu3574]

Ohhh Chase chase 😂

[@Locke-incredible-fan]

Ok can we talk about how scary the thumbnail is?

[@lorenzbroll101]

Great stuff I really enjoyed that! Pity you did not mention that Mars has mega dust storms every 5 years or so that turn day into night for weeks on end so solar panels would be useless. So you would also have to take a nuclear reactor with you for energy needs!

[@yomelo]

You live on Mars?

[@DonGivani]

Mentioned at 6:25

[@user-vf9ex4xl2p]

So. Why not send a couple of AI Bi-Peds (human-appearance), next time ? Solar powered, with a popup shelter for nights and dust storms. They could do rover maintenance, and hunt for fossils using ground penetrating vision, in their spare time. Design some temperature non-sensitive, carbon dioxide loving, ground cover plants to arrive with them, for their gardening hobby. 🌎

[@RetroGames4K]

Your videos look really good, you could make a videogame with these graphics, looks really good :D

[@MiniJoyArcade-d4x]

I love your. I want to let you know that your videos are the best

[@MeyersFamily15]

Lol off my bucket list

[@user-cq1dg8fd3s]

This is new level of what if!!

[@Mikegees]

Learned this in total recall… lol

[@Munkhtemuulen731]

At least it doesn't smell bad as Uranus 💀