The Exploration and Colonization of Mars: Why Mars? Why Humans? | Dr. Joel Levine | TEDxRVA
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It was filmed and edited by Tijo Media at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage in Richmond, VA. Dr. Levine is Research Professor in the Department of Applied Science at the College of William and Mary. Prior to joining the College of William and Mary in 2011, he spent 41 years at NASA, as Senior Research Scientist, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center and as Mars Scout Program Scientist, Mars Exploration Program, NASA Headquarters. He is Principal Investigator of the proposed NASA Langley ARES Mars Airplane Mission, which is being planned and developed. He served as Co-Chair as NASA’s Human Exploration of Mars Science Analysis Group and is Co-Editor of 976-page volume, The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet (Cosmology Science Publishers, 2010). Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Levine received a BS (Physics), Brooklyn College, City University of NY, a MS (Meteorology), New York University, and a MS (Aeronomy and Planetary Atmospheres) and a PhD (Atmospheric Sciences), both from the University of Michigan. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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nice video
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9:00 That's probably true a decade ago at 8mp. Now machine is superior to us in many ways, sight, sound even touch and taste.
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The Dream... you transform Mars in a Earth like planet and then destroy it in 100 years of industrialization ?
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Wouldn`t it be easier to create a human like robot and control it remotely ? I know there will be a delay because of the distance but I think it would be easier than sending people to the planet....
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My gf saw me watching this and asked ''do you have passion for me arse?"
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House the homeless first.
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Duh this guy's a joke, Elon said the return trip is free whenever you want to go. What is he talking about "private investors" will just leave people there?
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lets
explore space
give
it a go
land
on a planet
name
it hello
we
could build homes
save
for the future
we
could dig deep
plant
for awhile
we
could have fixtures
rise
in a moment
we
could sit tight
excite
and unwind
lets
explore space
give
it a go
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on a planet
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It is better to colonize asteroids. They are easy to land, take off and create earth gravity by rotating.
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Gravity? Mars has 38% the gravity of earth. Its very likely, if not assured this low gravity will have permanent, and life-long negative health impacts. It could be a deal breaker. Venus on the other hand, has almost the same gravity as earth. Not to mention abundant solar energy, and earth like pressures and temps if you are floating at the right height in the atmosphere.
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I wonder what will be the main religion in Mars. Will there be a story of Adam an Eve?
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Why not colonise the moon first instead and then launch to mars from the moon.
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how are you going to terraform the planet without a strong magnetic field and atmosphere?
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mars n earth connected with 4G LTE...not for sale...tool freq special/....lol
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is god on mars?
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Nonsense.
We are never going to Mars. Humanity will have destroyed the earth and will be extinct long before a Mars mission
and who cares? certainly not the universe, -
but if we engineer the mars to have climate,atmosphere ,how are we going to restablish the magnetic field of mars..coz without the magentic field a huge solar storm can wipe out decades of work done on crafting the atmosphere..
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Mars doesn't have the protective magnetosphere that Earth has, so isn't terraforming destined to fail?
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