Should We Pay People to Move to Mars? (feat. Nasa) 

the real question is: should we still be divided into nations when we as humanity decide to colonize space?

Even if we have a few people on Mars, we are still a single planet species until those people no longer need supply shipments from Earth.

We've got 10 years to get to 0 GHG emissions. If we don't achieve that, a big taste of Mars and Venus will be coming to us.

Makes me wonder if we ever find life on another planet. Would we be invading the land of others like the europeans did hundreds of years ago? Also, Mars should not be split into nations if we "colonize" it.

It does seem a bit off-topic to consider large-scale relocation to another planet (or the moon) when there are so many issues still to address here at home. I like the idea of small-scale exploration and short-term habitation, but huge terraforming efforts and leaps in agricultural and enviro science will need to occur before we can realistically consider habitation on Mars. Of course, the Biosphere experiments in the last century had some pretty cool ideas, so maybe we are further along than I thought.

LoL @ 8:23 "Do we go to planets surrounding Jupiter?" He is definitely an administrator and not a scientist.

Pay them... hmm. Perhaps "all expenses paid" would be better.

I just wonder how "sustainable" colonizing Mars would be. After your supplies designed and produced on earth break down over time, then you're done. I mean, humans would still be earth dependent. Also, energy is a crucial consideration here. Once humans reach peak cheap oil (some argue we already have), I'm not sure how likely it is that we would be going to Mars anyway. My understanding is that fracking has been overrated. We should look into nuclear energy and figure out how to live a more sustainable life on earth first... If we end up forced into a steady-state economy (rather than a growth-focused economy), then we probably won't have a complex enough society to do much space travel anymore anyway.

My main concern with any sort of effort to colonize Mars would be that the demographics of the settlers would be skewed towards able-bodied (because astronauts are required to exercise multiple times a day to offset the effects of being in space), affluent (if private companies are involved), and otherwise not truly representative of humanity (because discrimination in hiring/choosing potential settlers) until a) it takes significantly less time to get there and b) the habitats are secure/safe/large enough and technology advanced enough to allow people on Mars to live more or less as they would on Earth. That leaves a window of time decades or possibly centuries wide wherein, if Earth were to become unlivable for humans (a real possibility due to climate change), several marginalized groups of people would basically be left behind to die. I get that any portion of humanity surviving such an event would be good (for the survival of our species, at the least), but that just smacks of eugenics to me. It makes me wary of the long-term goals of anyone advocating for the colonization of Mars.

Wouldn't money be irrelevant to Mars colonists?

Honestly... they need me. People like me. I've always been very fit, active and healthy. I've always had a keen interest in learning and education, and have a vast understanding of random sciences and random knowledge. On catch... I'm dying. Cancer. I have nothing to lose. I'd ABSOLUTELY go to Mars on a one way ticket. I'd happily give my life for the betterment of science and exploration of a new world. I'd work and study and then die when I couldn't any more. Beats the hell out of my current life, watching TV, studying, training, sleeping, TV, studying, training, sleeping... etc. Right now I just kinda do nothing but learn, and workout and teach the occasional class when I feel well. If they could find a group of people like me, who have nothing to lose but a passion for science, that would be perfect. Send me up with a huge supply of anime and sitcom DVDs and I'll work for free. Lmao I'll happily plant potatoes, collect rocks, build settlements... whatever. Then watch ash ketchum catch em' all at "night". . Sounds like an absolute dream! :D

So glad I found this channel through the “Say It Loud” recommendation

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This season is feeling less like "What would we do if we built America From Scratch" and more like "What should America do regarding ____"

Wow super cool video and channel idea! Def subscribing!!!

so when robots cultivarateamatize the first banana on mars book my flight

"Earth has it's set of resources and that's it. Other planets have other resources." That quote is at approximately the 8:00 minute mark. Humans are literally trying to become the bad aliens. The aliens that we make scary movies about.

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Whatever it takes to get to Mars is worth it for the simple facts that building materials like iron are plentiful, the environment can be made locally habitable more easily than other places like the Moon, and the gravity is such that a space elevator could be constructed we current technology. If we go to Mars to stay, we can go everywhere else. Mars is the escape from our gravity well, and can even allow us to easily harvest the solar system to support the population of Earth. Mars is the first step toward space-faring post-scarcity.

they say when u get to mars you get come back cause we dont have the fuel we need to carry so why dont we make space stations in space with that we can buy fuel to come back

i wonder if humanity is every gonna start just moving back and forth between mars and earth. We destroy one planet or overcrowd it, or a big meteor wrecks it, and we move to the other planet to let the first one heal and nature take over again, then in a few thousand years we move back when we wrecked the second planet.

Humans as a race permanently inhabiting anywhere other than earth would be as far away from 'natural' as can be. Veering away from said natural course of life has now landed us into a lot of trouble, including the highly polluted state of the earth. It will be extremely selfish of us if we were to live here and exploit it till the point it is liveable, exploitable and go colonise another just because we can, notwithstanding what we would do for the fate of the millions of our co-inhabiting species. It's like not feeling the responsibility of fixing our wrongs and trying to revert earth to a near pristine state but having many options, ways out of doing it. From the statements of the nasa personnel based off of his fascination with humans colonising one planet after another, i feel like mission drivers are actually reading (or perhaps being made to read) fantastic science fiction to fuel their drive. It'd make me uneasy if space scientists or any scientist were to base their visions on science fiction; there are so many with unethical storylines.

I don't know if we should be colonizing other planets if we can't even take care of our own...

Every country involved in the project should contribute financial support to settlers, and there should be a good cross section of representatives from participant nations.

I'd go. Granted, I wouldn't bring anything to the table except the fact that, if I could survive it, so could the majority of other people.

add wi-fi service incentive done

I’d gladly go…

i sometimes think that mars is earth the future earth after humans were dead and earth time travelled back in time what do you think ?

Either way man power is what we need to make it work its a one way ticket at first and I don't care what ur

Will there be a new law and order or space X follow USA law

Why would you pay people to go, if acceptable volunteers are available free of charge?

i got a thought, why not just bottle all humans, animals, fish, plants and so on "sperm and eggs" like in a sperm bank thing and pack some robot that can do there thing ,procreate, nurse,mining and building and build the dam space ship and send it on its way ? do it need to be so big🤔

I'm all for space colonization. As our population continues to grow, we can't limit ourselves to one planet. Plus, we don't want to risk the entire species being wiped out by an asteroid or something. However, there's no real rush right now. Let's say that in a hundred years or so, we'll have better technology that could make a Mars colony a lot less risky. When we went to the moon, we had a time limit (getting there before the Soviets), but with Mars, we have the luxury to take our time and plan more carefully. Something to consider.

Hell, why go to all the bother? Just start constructing O'Niell cylinders - no need to worry about possibly contaminating Mars with terrestrial life, spin-gravity is adjustable to suit all your needs from drug manufacturing to industrial needs. You can move them if needed. If you embed them inside an asteroid for protection from radiation and other asteroids. Leave Mars and Venus (that's a whole different set of issues but think the sky city in star wars) until we really need it

Very similar to exploring and settling in continents hundreds of years ago....

Mars has a scar on it makes one say or ask what hit the planet

Americans should pay people who are moving to Mars, so they can afford things more expensive.

What the hell?! Living on the moon?! The moon is seen at night and shouldn't be a dwellingplace. NO DAYLIGHT. JUST DARKNESS.

I'd go for free, even if it meant dying.

total BS if you can send people you can also launch a payload with a singular mission. getting a shuttle to mars.

The idea of paying people to go to Mars is kind of idiotic lol "You'll be payed 10 million dollars! But Amazon will not ship to Mars until 2035... so if you survive that long, you might get to spend some of it." I mean... what the hell am I going to do with a mag of money on Mars!? Burn it for warmth like Triple Frontier?! Haha I mean... if I'm going to Mars, I ain't coming back. I don't want to live here anymore.

First of all there is no such thing as overpopulation second of all I love how we just acting like it’s free land and there was any native Americans on the land and that wasn’t even mentioned in the video

4 4 st4rt ppl that get to settle mars shouldnt w4nt 2 b paid anything b3c4use foundations shouldnt b built 0n greed

I'd prefer we took that money technology and ingenuity to fix the Earth. Then we can talk Mars.

I think people should stay on the earth, I don't think people know enough about moon to be living there but and if God wanted people on the moon , he would have automatic had some already living there.

Can't wait to start the First Baptist Church of Mars.

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a mars touchdown might happen before the year 3000 but the goal is to come back. and maybe leave something behind.

'commitment from the president'.....loony. Fix Earth first!

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It’s all nonsense

Lol Can't even get back t'moon.....

3:52 Jesus h*cking christ, can we get through a single video without bringing up racism. "We'd be remiss" - *Remiss: lacking care or attention to duty; negligent.* I don't see how it's negligent to bring that up when it adds nothing to, and distracts from, the topic of colonizing Mars. Yeah, people who are long dead "stole" some land (even though they didn't see it that way) ...and? It's not relevant unless you think that that is going to be some moral dilemma in the future.

Earth is Flat Space is Fake and Mars is a lightbulb🐒