The First Human Missions to Mars (I): When and How?

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1. that inflation rate is far from high enough. there is probably going to be a couple of huge bank bailouts before 2037...
2. Joking aside, I really hope you don't see your work as covered wagons when compared to that other "railroad" proposal. That's really depressing. Covered wagons were death machines, not the classy work that I HOPE you're doing.
3. Let's all go to Devon Island...........!
4. Great information here.
5. Save the money ($80 to $100 billion) to pay american debt ($19 trillion) or improve american life.
   Already saw the movie The Martian ($108 million)... way cooler the what Nasa would have to show or similar ;-)
6. Thanks for making the videos. You have a great on air personality and I really like getting the space updates. Keep up the good work!
   
7. Wouldn't it be easier just to go to where the Mars Rover landed--Devon Island in northern Canada? Seriously, we can't even photograph the Earth in whole because we can't get out of low Earth orbit. It's far too dangerous to actually go to Mars. We should stick closer to home.
8. i volunteer as tribute :D ... nice video
   
   oh and for the flat earthers.... bring me one picture of the edge of the world and i will believe you
   
   one
   
   photo
   
   that's all i need, get together make an expedition and set sail and photograph and film the whole thing... heck send a flying drone over the edge for those great waterfall images
   
   and good luck your gonna need it you fucking retards
9. I liked this but I stoped half way because the quality was giving me a headache. you didn't seem to stop and think about europe's big plan to go back to the moon and how it puts mars on hold for americans. did you?
10. Google(Explore Mars Incorporated) → candy company website
11. You people better send a dog alone first. No science. Can a dog come back and standup? If it can standup you can send people.
12. @vojoo's hut you thought wrong about "trolling around having some fun" in regard to the SHAPE OF EARTH. do EWE beLIEve it is a sphere? or is it oblong like Mr. Tyson says?? this is very serious. many of us are simply trying to raise awareness about these theories, which includes confronting what may be propaganda.... propaganda which is easily spread by people that have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE REALLY SAYING. wakey wakey honey baby.. 143 xx
13. Slides are from 2010? Shows the progress being made.
14. Using rail guns built sticking out of tall mountains or industrial office towers into the outer atmosphere looking like the biggest sundial we have ever seen; we could be to Mars within 20 years with a second bio-station in transit to also land on Mars making trips back and forth every 4 years or so, returning the biosphere chassis and ill members or too many, when Mars and earth are at their closest orbits. Send the materials into orbit and use shuttles to 'shuttle' the materials into place on the stations already orbiting the earth, then provide some thrust to leave orbit on intercept with Mars.
    I'm surprised nobody remembers this from the 80's....I thought one would have been built by now and always wondered why they kept sending shuttles into space instead of just cargo sleds with rail guns.... we can even use them to transport ourselves to anywhere in the world within 30 minutes and without engines on the vessel, it simply is pushed into the stratosphere, it aims while the wings unfold to glide to its destination. We can even use computers to land them now as we are using them to land aeroplanes which was probably a concern back then, so there doesn't even have to be a pilot as well as being programmed so terrorists have no real advantage when hijacking a plane as they do now.
    The only problem the bio-sphere had during experiment and trial was the need for more carbon dioxide for the plants to breath, which means more humans can be present than what was in the experiment.
    
    Count me in, especially if I would be able to return in less than 10 years having dual returning orbits.....
    We should be burrowing mines into the ground beneath life pods and filling caverns with air to begin colonizing.
    
    We could place them on the 25th parallel just like according to alien theology they are already here in the Bermuda and Dragon triangles deep in the lower layers of earth. How else would we have consistent 24 hour constant communication with our colonies. Use gas exhaust to sink ships using bubbles in water when we get to that point.
    
    lol @ exobiology being a study on alien life....I bet it wasn't hard to get past that course in university considering we have no specimen to really choose from aside from bacteria or algae which can already be found here on earth in abundance. 8D all kidding aside make some sulphur pools by creating volcanic eruptions to get the initial algae emitting carbon dioxide, from there we can add plants to breathe that in over time and expel oxygen creating an atmosphere..hopefully the particles will be heavy enough to stay on the surface. Considering there are dust storms on Mars that even end up on earth, that would suggest that there is already somewhat of an atmosphere albeit a weak one.
15. Bigfoot is from Mars.
16. I'd better get healthy if I want to live to see all this happen...
17. When they do eventually send the 1st humans to Mars...how many do they need to send? Different science missions/experiments require different kinds of scientists..how many do you need send the first trip?
18. Great show! It's always tough to predict the future but hearing from the folks actually crunching the numbers and bending metal (ions?) is as good as it gets.
19. Flat earthers think the earth is flat even when you show them images from space. Thats because the photo you show them is flat, so they think its... flat... hahaha fucking retards.