The SpaceX Mars Announcement: Everything You Need To Know | Answers With Joe
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Elon Musk of SpaceX announced his plans to go to Mars for the first time and they were as amazing as you'd expect. Support me on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/answerswithjoe Follow me at all my places! Instagram: https://instagram.com/answerswithjoe Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/answerswithjoe Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/answerswithjoe Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/answerswithjoe LINKS LINKS LINKS Launch animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8 Opposition of Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDnxIA7EyJg Isaac Arthur Terraforming Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikoNQNj9ZnU Wait But Why article http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-full-story.html Anybody who knows me knows that I am an Elon Musk fanboy, I love pretty much everything he touches so when it was announced that he was going to reveal his plans for SpaceX to reach Mars, I tuned in. The Musk-haters out there will be quick to point out that this announcement conveniently followed a public disaster when their Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the pad on September 1st, destroying a Facebook satellite. And while the timing might have been convenient, colonizing Mars is something that’s been on Elon Musks’ mind for a very long time. His reasoning is that as long as the human race lives on one planet, there is no plan B, if some kind of extinction level event occurred here on Earth, which has happened 6 times in Earth’s history, we’d be screwed. So he’s not interested in landing on Mars and planting a flag, he’s going for full-on colonization. His ultimate goal is to get a million people living on Mars because only then would you have a self-sustaining population. And that would take upwards of 10,000 trips. And how does he plan to get 10,000 people to Mars? With the Interplanetary Transport System. It consists of three parts, the booster, the crew/cargo ship, and the refueling ship. The ITS has two stages, and the second stage, the weaker one, would be more powerful than any other rocket currently being used today. It’s so powerful that Musk plans to cut the typical 6-month journey to Mars down to 3. The booster stage is enormous, it has 42 engines, and not just any engines, SpaceX’s new Raptor engines. The booster will also follow the lead of the Falcon 9 rocket by landing upright back on Earth. The crew capsule is designed to hold up to 100 people, though later on it may hold up to 2 or 300 - remember Musk wants to colonize Mars. He didn’t really have any renderings of the inside of the capsule other than this epic sci-fi picture, but he did say in an interview that it would be luxurious and have all kinds of amenities like a movie theater and a restaurant. He compared it more to a cruise ship. And the third segment of the vehicle is a refueling capsule, which uses the exact same design as the crew capsule, only it’s just filled with fuel.
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You use that record scratch thing way to much, makes it get old really fast.
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Came here from Isaac Arthur's channel. Allow me to subscribe, colonize, and nuke the poles.
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since you can't get to mars ...good luck with this sic fi script
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Will Offspring born on Mars ever be able to return to earth after their bodies have become accustomed to substantially less gravity? Would they still even be human?
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"I don't wanna go :D" hahaha
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I think teraforming Mars can be possible but its a realy long term run and maybe few hundreds years later you will be good to go just with oxygen mask on surface but its still kind a scifi at the moment. Much easier would be setting up colony on Venus. I know... On surface its kinda hell, huge atmospheric preassure will crush you like tomato and your suit and gear will slowly melt down due to toxicity of enviroment but... Oxygen is lighter then Venus atmosphere, so simple habitat filled with breathable atmosphere would fly like a airship there and most important few kilometers above surface is same preassure like here on earth and temperature is ok too. You wouldnt need full spacesuit to be there, just something to protect your skin and oxygen mask. Venus CloudCity colony is much more in our current technology reach then any other object in our solar system.
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I would wanna go there to explore but live there with all the conditions u mention 🤔❓nahhhh
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Musk's announcement is the best thing I've heard since the Apollo-program. I didn't expect him to give more details about the Mars-habitats, because that's not what his mission goal is. He mainly wants to provide the means to get there in order to be able to build self-sustaining extra-terrestrial communities on Mars...just like the 19th Century American railroad-builders made transportation more practical for people to move west. There'll be plenty of opportunities for other competent entrepreneurs, as well as government-agencies, to provide and build the infrastructure needed for a future Martian-civilization.
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I want to go to mars in the future only if i can return back to earth after 18 months but i would want to go on the later missions like in 2030
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Possible but not as Elon Musk propose. 100 people in such small capsule? Highly unlikely. Also there is not radiation protection in his designs. Coordinating so many engines (42) is dificult task. But of course is possible to colonize mars, as well as any other planet. Even teraform it. But colosal epic production is required. Not just few rockets.
I have the designs for the ships. Huge ships. The habitats are also epic size. Star Wars style,not apollo style.
SnS,UART,ION,electric and few other propulsion methods combined. So no fuel at all. Habitats are VHS box shape. Cargo ships are cubes, manned transport ships are several models - sprite bottle shape,flat triangle pyramidoid,horseshoe,pizza,cookie.
The stations are ball shape like Death Star. For colonize Venus we gonna need floating city. Just like Bespin in Star Wars.
Also there will be breeding stations. Females will be absolutely nude for all the time and we put babies into mass production level. We have whole universe to colonize. Epic scale. Full frame technologies. No fuel whatsoever,no modules,no multistages. A ship that will fly from earth surface to mars surface and back to earth surface as one piece, without any refuels in between.
Just like millenium falcon. There is plenty of CO2. We gonna extract the C for carbon nanotubes and O2 can be used for various purposes. I have all designs. My dream is to put Star Wars style ships for real. For example one of my designs is ship model hurricane. Triangle pyramidoid, 40 meters wide,70 meters long and 14 meters high at the highest point. -
Who will insure it? :)
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Joe one suggestion! Just say it like it is: it's bullshit.
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Solar radiation degrades Mars's atmosphere over geological timescales, not something that is a concern for human based terraforming.
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If you did thicken the atmosphere to warm Mars up, solar radiation and solar wind would take many millions of years (billions?) to deplete back to a thinned state. Something for the far far far future generations to pick up the maintenance tab on. Would not worry.
Radiation assessment is that Mars would be like at the high level of exposure of nuclear worker under emergency conditions
Your life may stand chance of beings shorter by developing cancer early - but not definite. I would guess average of 10years off your lifespan? Would that be acceptable?
For sure - during any direct head on solar storm you would have to shelter in a dug out tunnel below ground and quickly (DIG!).
Day to day you could also lessen your overall average total exposure to cosmic ray background (about half of overall radiation dose rate) by sleeping underground at night. Thats cuts off about 1/3 of your total possible dose.
If you stayed permanently underground with only a few metres of soil above you you would eliminate risk - or push it down to normal earth background - but then whats the point of going to Mars to hide underground ?
I suppose a compromise of having most everyday work/office buildings with a few metres of soil thrown on top but with windows around side would be OK -
Going to Mars is a HUGE mistake.
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One of the first things we did when we appeared on earth was to burn things.
One of the first things we'll do when we get to Mars is...
Burning things. -
you are honest in saying you don't have all the answers, and I quite agree...
melting the Martian poles... this would thicken the atmosphere as well as produce a lot of water, which would fill up the seas of Mars... there is enough water on Mars that if melted would cover the surface to about a Meter Depth... of course that would not happen, but there would be some deep rivers, seas and lakes.... Nuclear bomb was a joke.. not going to happen, but it got a lot of attention, which was the point... second option is an few asteroids... 3rd option, is redirecting sunlight or building some plants to warm up the atmosphere with more Co2(we have done that experiment here on Earth and it works, too well)
you did say "Time"... how much time would need to pass for the Martian Atmosphere to dissipate due to the action of the Solar Wind, without a Magnetic Field to protect it?? Several million years for it to return to it's present state, but we would have time to work out ways of replacing it on a yearly basis, perhaps even augmenting it too... oh and the magnetic field problem... we know of certain areas of the Moon and Mars where there are localized Magnetic fields, weak but they are there... there may be a solution lurking under the surface ;)
As for going to Mars... yeah, I'd go on the first ITS out of here, in 2022... no guarantee of a safe landing... just so that I could be there for 2 years to set up for the next 25 people... but even if I have to wait for 2025 - 2035 it would still be awesome...
oh... and the ISRU (wonder if you have heard of that?? and I'll take pity on you, In Situ Resource Utilization) the making of Oxygen for living and for the Propellant for the return trip for the our ITS and the Next ITS(s) in 2 years... it wouldn't be THE first thing to do on Mars, as there will be Robotic ISRU Plants delivered on the 2022 cargo ITS(s)... and yes it would require searching for Water and take Co2 out of the Atmosphere and cracking that to make METHANE and Oxygen ;-) those would be priority while we set up the Colony for the first 100 (+) people... We would live in the ITS until the first units on the surface were ready for habitation...
Form of government: Direct Democracy, similar to Switzerland, not exact... Laws, whatever the population decide... would we be governed by laws established on Earth, ummmmm that remains to be seen... our day to day experience will be sufficiently different that we may need to rethink what is right for us...
By 2030, we could have 1000 people living and working in the colony... 100-200,000 by 2050... sound ridiculous?? well, you are a young fella, so perhaps you will see it happen... I could write more, but it's late... as Elon said a few years ago: it would be great to be born on Earth, and die on Mars, just not on impact :D cheers... -
lack of gravity will be the biggest problem. muscle wasting, eyesight degradation and heart muscle damage are now insurmountable table problems for astronauts on the ISS
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Yes please send yourself, f-ELON-y and Shillary to Mars as soon as possible!!!
We need you baffoons off this planet!!!
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Why Mars, though? Venus would be more practical and have fewer obstacle, particularly health related ones (it has a magnetic field and similar gravity).
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