The Real Reason Elon Musk Is Colonizing Mars! 

I'm old enough to remember the moon landing. I hope I'm young enough to watch a Mars landing.

Im 51 and loved space all my life, cant get enough. This was a great show you made

12:09 ERROR! Not Curiosity rover but Perseverance rover is collecting samples to send back to earth.

Watching The Expanse on prime video and watching your channel makes me really think how close to reality we move every day to matching science fiction. Unfortunately born too early to see much of this come to fruition but man this is amazing

When I was in school, I remember science books talking about sending people to Mars, but it always seemed more like a fantasy, or at most, something much, MUCH further in the future. It's so cool to me that there are people, RIGHT NOW, seriously trying to get there within my lifetime. Regardless of when or if it does, I respect the drive and passion behind it.

Once the Starship makes it to Mars Orbit, we need to NOT try the "suicide dive" method of landing (aerodynamic braking before swinging to a vertical propulsive landing). That method is being proposed only because it saves on fuel. INSTEAD, what we need to do is land the Starship on Phobos and refuel there. That's right: Use Phobos for a fuel depot. THEN the Starship will have all the fuel it needs to land propulsively like the falcon 9 booster does now. All good wishes.

Good article. One correction - the sample rover on Mars, to which you referred, is Perseverance, not Curiosity. Curiosity is the older rover that’s been there for a few years.

Landing a Starship on Mars will be magnitudes harder than launching a space craft from the surface of Mars.

"That's why Elon Musk is so obsessed with Mars" I just imagined Elon waking up at night going like "AH! MAAARS! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARSSSS!"

@9:50 the three engines on Starship will be 3 vacuum engines. Sea-level engines won't cut it on mars or space. Way too inefficient at that pressure.

This is the second time you've used the term 'interstellar' when referring to things of an interplanetary nature. Mars is not an interstellar body from our point of view. Interplanetary = used when referring to multiple planets within a single star system. i.e: travel between Earth and Mars = interplanetary travel. Interstellar = multiple objects that each exist in DIFFERENT star systems, but within the same galactic system. Could also refer to two different star systems that exist in different galaxies, although technically these are also intergalactic objects, and therefore it is more accurate/descriptive to refer to them as such. Intergalactic = multiple objects that each exist in different galaxies, or objects that exist outside of a galactic system (for instance, most nebulae don't exist within a galaxy and are therefore intergalactic objects). Please strive to achieve accuracy and correctness in your terminology, it matters.

Is it possible, or even feasible to create a long enough mass driver to get a ship moving super fast before launching it into the air, then firing the boosters, to save fuel? With a long enough run up, something similar to a bullet train could theoretically get a sizeable vessel up to a pretty impressive speed using mag lev technology before launching it, and before it lost too much momentum fire the boosters, what do you think?

Nice video pointing out some important considerations. Supporting large colonies will be very tricky, mostly in the sustainable basics of life categories, until we have a very reliable supply chain. If they can access sufficient water, and grow large enough volumes of food, in spite of typical agriculture challenges, then they should be ok. Fuel and building supplies seem relatively easy to create on planet. Managing exposure to radiation also seems pretty easy. It's very reasonable to assume that there will be some loss of life, as with any long distance colony.

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I find it interesting that no one ever talks about the most important “fact” of all. This being that any/all future Martian settlers will also require the ability to manufacture their own electronics and hardware systems to ensure they can independently maintain, replace, and produce the systems required to transform ice into hydrogen (for fuel) and most importantly oxygen (to breathe, among so very many other necessities). Shipping the first few generations of equipment from earth is one thing, but then taking the leap (via self-manufacturing) to true independence will be a few hundred years. Can you imagine the stranglehold earth will have on “any” external colony? Or what some corrupt, or inherently evil politicians, or corporate oligarchs would have over such an fledgling establishment? It will literally be hundreds of years before any Martian colony, or other external solar colony will achieve true independence. Even then, the transition will likely be violent and difficult. Maybe, if one day there are orbital-manufacturing facilities in space, or even within the asteroid belt, this will happen, but now we are talking about systems that can self-repair and be programmed to produce everything you could possibly need for a space-based economy. As a side-note, you’d likely want the ability to defend it or hide it, as one small tactical-nuke would wipeout tens of thousands, if not a few million colonists, should their fragile supply chain be eliminated. This is now getting into the realm of complete science-fiction (and I stress the “fiction” part here). Anyway, the human race will never be multi-planetary until the capabilities exist to independently and externally (from earth) produce or manufacture anything a colony could possibly need to survive. We are at least 300-500 years away from this (maybe a thousand) unless some magical new technologies arise to upset the existing metrics. Just my thoughts.

Excellent video

Great video

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Great video!!

An amazing video. Thank you so much!

The term interstellar is not correct when discussing travel within our solar system. Interstellar refers to travel between stars

Cool stuff!

Well written and thoughtful. This channel is definitely more than clickbait. Great job.

Wow all this is amazing Info

Nice video

Good one 😎

One huge 'but' in this video. Starbase is not building Starships. It's just putting pieces together. Pieces that I would safely assume come from around the world. From super-advanced materials that are created in highly sophisticated factories, foundries that make this type of steel, heat tiles, and thousands of other rocket components. So no, building Starbase on Mars will not give us an advantage. We need a big enough human presence in there to build very advanced supply chains on Mars. That is obviously assuming that all the required resources are present on Mars. Edit: Oh, Did I mention microchips that usually come from super ultra advanced so-called foundries that are only a few of them on Earth?

It's very interesting to hear and know about.

I do hope to know more about this.

Your videos make the future seem so hopeful and exciting. But they also make me wish I wasn't so old. :/

Could you make a video about mining resources and production facilities needed for that facilitates what you said about the building industry on Mars for ships in Rocky point

Soon it will be a reality how wonderful.

love it

Great analysis, thanks

9:35 you should have also added that it needs 8-10 refuling flights to get to mars. Would have hammered your point 8 fold.

I like to believe there are pretty much an infinite amount of great filters from life itself evolving all the way to concurring the multiverse and beyond

Energy density in fuel should be a pretty good starting point to improve the mass ratio.

10:31: Normally Wax Doll Pluto is quite cool looking similar to what we had on Dust Storm and the only they have Legoland ish tech entertainment. Usually New Yorkers go there when they don’t want to live on earth anymore.

This is inspiring episode. However you made one very big blunder - it is Perseverance that is collecting Martian samples not Curiosity. Love your show!

Make it so!

The evolving 'real reason' to colonize Mars is simply to escape the FAA I think. Very interesting discussion, thanks 🙂

This will be a huge undertaking that I hope will not be given up, even if setbacks occur. But from what I've heard a lot of this, if it pans out, won't be a reality until the 2050s. By that time I will be in my 70s. One of my life wishes is that I can live long enough to see or hear it happen. Before I die I just want to know that we did something spectacular, something worth doing, beyond all the selfish nonsense we are inundated with here on Earth. I don't necessarily have to be a part of it, but I just want to see humanity do it.

Yes you've nailed it.

10:47: That’s how Wax Doll usually looks like. Quite nice.

A question I keep asking myself, why is there another atmosphere when you go to space? U still see another atmosphere why shud such Happen?

Yes next step we get there we know what to do next

Clearly the technology needed to take people to Mars has arrived. The biggest problem I see, is finding a handful of people who can maintain their sanity during the two or three years in space, and on a barren planet, far from Earth. Also, as the human body deteriorates in low gravity and constant radiation, depression, anxiety, and the sense of isolation will only increase. It sounds like a small thing, but it’s probably the biggest obstacle.

These reasons are exactly why industrializing the moon is so important. Once we have lunar infrastructure in place it's gonna be so much easier to go from the moon to other places in the Solar System, including Mars.

this is really interesting, but there are so many obstacles that need to be overcome in order for this to become a reality. 1-landing a rocket on mars is still theoretical. 2- getting equipment to mars to build a base would require an insane amount of money. 3- no atmosphere, no air, and deadly radiation, would make living on mars a nightmare living mostly in the space ship. building any structures on mars would be a death sentence. we are so far off from this becoming a reality. but its fun to dream

Future Mars colonists could become insanely wealthy if they focus their life work on asteroid mining. Access to the asteroid belt would be almost easy

Hey, great video, but Mars samples are being collected by Perseverance, not Curiosity.

Thank you ginius

Mars Spaceport: Less congested, inhabited and less dizzy-antated. (than I am now!!) Great idea, makes sense.... Go Elon!!

Cool

the first landing, wil the starship flip or tilt? how will they create a smooth strong surface for a big rocket to land instead of sink in the ground .. its nice that they show a space trip in 3D with a whole space station on mars, but im more curious on how they will land ..

I'm all for this. I was infantry in the USMC. Do they need a security team?? Lol

Gold

Cook,I agree with your line of though.

Movies and series have space stations building and maintaining space ships. Space mining for materials and building them in space could be a possibility.

Question- instead of needing 1k times the lift power to launch super heavy loads from earth,what about building alot of the stuff we need to bring to mars on the moon/out of the moon,& launch from there. So basically launch a bunch of ships to moon, make tons of the stuff needed for mars on & made out of the moon(regalith) then launch a few fully loaded (much heavier now) ships to mars from moon instead? So,an example-> land 20 half loaded rockets on moon, along with 10 more empty ones. Load all the stuff from the half loaded, into the empty 10,along with tons of materials that can be made on the moon.then launch the 10 super heavy fully packed rockets easily from moon surface instead of earth? Idk im not a scientist but seems like it'd work

We need a planet with its own sun that's what we should be looking at putting money into going to explore outer planets that's where these planets exist we need a planet with its own sun

i would love to see that in my life time. I would also love to work on mars

I just heard an exchange of words in my garage between a cockroach and Marduro. The cockroach was being pressed slowly by Jupiter because he ate plastic candy instead of what cockroaches usually eat and stay away and have a place in nature as a wood and leaf decomposer under your mulching. The dying cockroach was still showing off telling the Marduro that what they were feeling was the cockroach dying the house over to somewhere.

I’m sort of a fan of the “mass driver” concept though admittedly, to avoid the kind of acceleration of a rail-gun, the driver would be several miles long. Once up to orbital speed of about 7 miles per second, the railcar would release the craft, it would coast up to orbital altitude from which a much smaller rocket can then propel the craft onwards. I understand that there would be concern about atmospheric buffeting, resistance along the track. But could certainly reduce the fuel-to-lift the fuel dilemma. But I think it could launch a lot more mass into orbit electronically with lower time between launches. Could launch at night when electric load on the grid would be reduced. Overall, I don’t know why no-one since Gerard O’Neil has proposed this idea

Training at Antarctica would be a good idea. Drop in Robots to build the shelters by aircraft, see if it works.

Very great video , and very factual , just Awesome . My dream is that we become an Interplanetary species . Mars and beyond 💯

Build a Starship in sections, launch sections on heavy rockets and assemble in orbit. That type of Starship, could be a cargo spacecraft, to only be used for sending passengers and cargo between Earth, Moon and Mars, but no ability to land on the planets, just orbit, unload on Gateway stations and reload cargo from Mars, to go back to Earth.

need to start sending stuff to mars before we even go (building supplies)

Yes we are going to do this and we can

Many of the ideas presented require a steel mill and foundry be built on Mars. Pushing an iron asteroid out of space and into the Martian atmosphere is easy compared to building an enormous steel mill, foundry, and machine shop all of which require an earth-like atmosphere to function.

The real reason is that he has had enough of dealing with lying, incompetent politicians.

We need to build the Utopia Planetia shipyard, from Trek!

Your assuming the colony spacecraft from the movie " Don't Look Up " was launched from Earth. Well, if it was it would be launched in smaller segments, then assembled in orbit, taking many multiple launches. If the human race survives long enough ( a big if ) , large spacecraft should be constructed in orbit and the resources for said craft should be gathered from space. Sooner or later we will need to learn the importance of being much less dependent on the sink hole of Earth. After all, our end goal is to explore space, so we should learn to refine, construct and work in space. It would be cool to see you make a video on the subject of constructing large colony habitats and or spacecraft in near earth orbit.

A martian spaceport is a inevitability If we are to survive as a species we have to go to the stars

We have to figure out how to use local resources in Space.

That word: "Interstella" means, not "between planets" but "between stars" and the nearest star to our sun is 4.25 LIGHT YEARS away. So to get there in 425 years a spaceship would need to travel at 0.01 times the speed of light = 3,000,000 m/s and carry sufficient supplies. Then there's the question of what would any humans on board do if they managed to get there? Also, human technology will have advanced by 425 years making the spaceship look like a Roman Chariot. If we want an outpost or two off of this planet then space station cities are a much better idea.

Hi

What research have you really done on the subject of space travel and what it takes to explore the surface of other planets?

What is a rezzorz??? Never heard of that before...

Great ideas! It’s frustrating knowing you’re not going to be around long enough to have the chance to work on Mars or do any other of the amazing space ideas which are right now just dreams. I’d like to come back in a second life hundreds of years in the future - maybe by being born on Mars or Titan.

If Elon Musk wants to build huge interplanetary Spaceships he needs to build them in Space! It makes little sense to me in taking a large Rocket up and down to Planet surfaces when all you really need is a much smaller Shuttle that can take people and goods down to the surface instead.

Some of us nerds like comparing Elon Musk to Tony Stark, but the more I see from him and learn about him, I believe comparing him to Peter Isherwell would be a more appropriate comparison. I just can't see him being the one to lead us past the Great Filter. We really should become a multi planet species but with better ideologies. Or else we will just destroy everything we touch, like we already have throughout history.

11:29: This is how the surface of my moon currently looks. 😅It was a Jelly Hawaiian place before the wax dolls decided to crash land and implode their most comfortable home Dark Saturn and splatter all over our surface. We are a Galatian Saturn looking thing right now on the surface. Water in the interior feels like water on Milky Way Pluto. Thicker than normal water.

Every SpaceX launch announces their Max Q event. At what velocity/altitude/time is the Martian Max Q for a Starship from its surface?

Good video, I remember Musk said he was thinking about Nuking Mars. I understand where he's coming from with that idea. I've got a better one, send Starship(s) to a ice / rocky asteroid where Starship would slowly change/push the orbital trajectory to intercept Mars orbit, depending on what the asteroid is made of you'd get the added benefit of the increase heat and mass. As for fuel the Starship would require, if the asteroids make up is ice, you'd have H2O to fuel the engine. Solar panels would provide the electricity for the fuel production.

If any life is possible on Mars we as a people need to tread carefully!

Starship can also use vacuum raptors to lift off from the Martian surface.

The Moon to Mars journey was started decades ago by another President but stopped in its tracks so now we r catching up…about time …go Elon :)

O No Curiosity doesn't know about the samples yet.!!

Great video as usual!! But if we want a low gravity environment to build big spaceships why not start with the moon? It would have a much better supply chain connection with respect to Earth.

12:59: That is you on Betelgeuse.

Mars is the new it, earth was soooo last century ago. Can't wait to get my Martian passport.

Dream on my friend

Trust me start sending how is ready

Not sure if it is correct I always understood Venus atmosphere much more pressure than earth

Which is why the moon base is so important

Great view point "Mars the great filter" And it's true, if we can't make it on Mars, we'll still have new york.

I hope there is no billy the kid, bars, gringos, cowboys and hamburger fast food up there.

Is there also a 26 month launch widow coming back to Earth?

Wouldn’t a space station port be closer, easier and cheaper?