The Billionaire's Dream - Turning Mars Into Paradise
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Mars is a disappointing hellhole lacking practically everything we need to stay alive. It looks like we’ll only ever have small crews spend a miserable time hidden underground. Except, we could terraform it into a green new world. But to solve the planet’s problems, we first need to make it worse and turn it into oceans of lava with gigantic lasers.
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Considering giant space mirrors have been a key technology in many of these "futurist" videos... it'd be neat to have a video exploring how we could make them, transport them, and keep them locked in the position we need them in!
Agreed. We all need to bomb this comment with likes so they see it.
This indeed what we need after this
I think they would not make it because then they would have to go more in detail into the physics and mathematics involved and that would not necessarily appeal to a wider audience than giving an overview
We can already do that. Its just super expensive and so there's no point to doing it until we have a very good reason.
The 🅿👅 explanation in these 🚑👳 sort of videos 😏😏 seems 🔥👀 so 🙇❓ simple 😏 like 💘😏 all 👦 this can happen in 👇👉 a 👩 few weeks, whereas if we actually 🚟 started 💢 doing such ❤😽 stuff, it 💯 would take centuries
This all sounds so hard to do, but for a planet without mosquitoes? Absolutely worth it
Think of it as a second second safegame. If something goes bad on earth we can load and continue the game. Otherwise it's game over.
I know rightttt..whyy die from a small mosquito bite that itches for a minute than suffer with bone cancer from radiation and have your bones crumble like biscuits under low gravity?
Mars will have their own - Marsquitos.
I'd skip wasps as well.
@@SnoopyDoofie damn you had me rolling over this
I’m imagining a far future where humanity has constructed a Dyson Swarm, a Caplan Thruster and has terraformed both Mars AND Venus, and it’s genuinely giving me chills.
hopefully they also made a laser to kill mosquitos
Except its impossible
@@nikolaiunzucced507it is with attitude like that
@@Finwaell lmao its not about attitude, its about realising how reality works
@@nikolaiunzucced507 talk to People of the 19th 18th century or even before common era that we can go to the moon & mars in the future and see their reaction That's how you look like
Honestly, just love the way you started this one. Like a disappointed father talking about his son: "Mars is a dissapointing hellhole, that can't keep anything alive". Just love it
It makes my child-like brain very happy knowing how many problems can be fixed with a big laser
just not in our live time, or that of our grand children's grand children
"But we want to be quick, and we have a big laser."
In addition to that , A lot of things can also be fixed with a Big Bomb
beeg laser go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
@@holthuizenoemoet591 this is where it gets pathetic and sad, We do have every thing needed right now to start doing it, but right now we're retarded by ancient mythologies and myopic people who's short term greed out weighs the survival of the very planet never mind our species. Worse yet we're back sliding, you have organized groups gas lighting people that plainly obvious and demonstrable things don't exist like viruses because some con artist wants to sell magical water.
Kurzgesagt in 2019: "Living on Mars would be very difficult." Kurzgesagt in 2022: "Actually we can just shoot some lasers at it and we're golden."
The pandemic really changed our perspectives huh.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 ha exactly
ok
It'll be super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
We can have a virus free world We can have a mosquito free world
Honestly, these vids just highlight to me just how important it is to take care of our planet, because terraforming another one will take generations upon generations of work.
And most important (imo), this is the only 100% human-habitable planet we have. It's the only world in the entire universe that's completely ideal for us to live on, right out of the box. Other planets won't have our biosphere, even if they're perfect in every other respect, so we need to learn how Earth works before we can build those features into other worlds.
@@Kevin_Street I will not presume to make any inference about the entire universe, which we have observed less than a fraction of a percentage of. However, even if a world that is completely ideal for us does exist somewhere, it takes us years just to get to Mars, so interstellar travel is out of the question for us.
A thousand years really isn’t that long. Imagine 12 people standing in a line. That’s a thousand years. Besides, it’s nice to have a project to work on, you know?
@@Kevin_Streetonly habitable planet *so far*. Not to mention the massive growth of knowledge that such a project would create, which would be greatly useful here at home as well.
@@mntccd Wow, that really puts buying a fixer upper home for the sake of having a reno project into perspective.
imagine pissing off the guy in control of the laser and your house gets deleted
Image pissing off the guy controlling your planet's magnetic field protection and your planet gets deleted
imagine pissing off god and your universe gets deleted
imagine pissing off john wick and getting your entire bloodline wiped out
7:55 Using the terraforming laser to annihilate Mosquitoes is a perfectly reasonable decision
What was that old Chinese proverb? Ah yes, "Do not use an orbital terraforming laser cannon to kill a mosquito."
@@TeMPOraL_PL -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
@@TeMPOraL_PL hehe laser go bzzzzzzzzzt
Imagine using a Hammer O'Dawn for a single mosquito
I agree very apropriate.
The sequel we never knew we needed.
yes.
True buutttttttttttttt you have to sub to him to make more vids
yea that episode was one of my favorites from kurzgesagt
Yas
Cant wait for “How to terraform Mercury” next
The fact that today the thumbnail and title was changed from “how to terraform mars with lasers” with the thumbnail being mars getting layered from all sides is insane
Hahahahaha! I was like, where is my fall asleep video??
I've been planning to do this for a while, and I'm glad they gave a step by step tutorial on how to do terraformation.
Kurzgesagt: This is not a far-off science fiction scenario Also Kurzgesagt: The mirrors have to be eleven times the size of the United States.
but thinner than a sheet of paper
Also the nitrogen one
just casually skipping the fact that primary succession is a process that takes thousands of years on earth, let alone on a planet with absolutely no previously established species. essentially restarting the process from scratch could take tens, or hundreds of thousands of years. people conveniently don't realize how delicate the systems we have on earth are.
Total mirror area is that big, not each individual mirror. A swarm of smaller mirrors will accomplish the same task. This scale is piecemeal once you start scaling up automated space manufacturing to the point where you're around 0.1% of the manufacturing base needed to build a proper Dyson Swarm. Send a factory that can build copies of itself and robotic mining stations and mirror factories to the asteroid belt, and direct the geometric growth of your space industrial infrastructure from home. Even better, after these factories make the mirrors and lasers to terraform Mars, they can keep making mirrors to get started on that Dyson Swarm.
@@Terminator484 you should play factorio
Fun fact: Giant and/or deadly lasers solve every problem. If you can’t solve a problem with a laser, then the problem is you
So the laser is not a final solution?
@@janbernad4729 It is. Because if you are the problem, then a laser can eliminate the problem, that being you.
Good to see Senator sharing his wisdom online
If a giant laser doesn't solve your problem, clearly you're not pointing it at the right target!
and even that can be solved
I love how their videos start with "how to" as if it is a tutorial like "oh btw here's how to make mars habitable"
Don't you terraform Mars every day, it's quite a normal thing to do
7:50 the best part about terraforming a planet from a dead state, is (as long as you prevent stowaways) you choose what things you introduce and can build a pest free planet from the ground up.
Terraforming an entire planet seems so god-like. The scenes of giant lasers poking through dark clouds looks so unreal and divine, yet in theory it’s entirely possible. So interesting
The fact that we even have the laser technology almost figured out is pretty cool too
I feel like the scene would be not so out of place having anakin Skywalker getting his legs cuts off by obi-wan
Lot's of stuff we do today is god like in historical context. Modern thermonuclear bombs are literally biblical scale destruction. Bleach would be incredibly miraculous to ancient people, pour a little into putrid, fetid water and it instantly becomes clean, that's like something straight out of the bible. It's a fun mental exercise to think about our technology in historical context, or how our ancestors would react to it.
@@evilalchemist9278 Interesting! You make a great point; as a result of technology advancements over the past few decades, what were once regarded as engineering marvels have become commonplace. It makes me ponder and believe that what we currently consider inconceivable may soon become a reality. Indeed, it is a thought-provoking premise that technological advancements have expanded our options for exploration and innovation by expanding the bounds of what is conceivable.
@@tristincryer3244 not reading allat
I like how you actually manage to make a video about _terraforming Mars_ feel like a tutorial
What are you talking abour? This video is gonna be useful for my next school project
Yooooo right
Or a simulation game like Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Instructions unclear, lasered Planet Earth instead. 💀
Hey guys welcome back to my diy channel today we're gonna be going over how to obtain antimatter using only a hairpin and a power outlet!
3:41 Mars is Polus From AMOGUS Confirmed
Kurzgesagt: "Except, we could terraform it into a green, new world." Me: "But without mosquitos, right?"
yup i said that
"Not mosquitoes though" I love this channel
I died 😅
True that pest dies on earth.
Terraforming Mars may be difficult but at least there will not be mosquitoes
Mosquitoes get the petawatt laser
F*ck mosquitos man. I hate them. Most annoying and dangerous insects on earth.
This isn't even a joke, a Kurzgesagt game about terraforming planets would be absolutely incredible
YES.
Or a movie
even if it was just a Kurzgesagt game i’ll get it. Teraforming or no teraforming it will be good
@@cjsantiago4035 they have a game
There’s a game called TerraGenesis on mobile platforms that does this well imo
If mars declared independence, I could see the magnetic ring station being a potential hot spot for war
Unfortunately this would be very likely
Kurzgesagt, please make a space game where you can make moonbases and terraform planets. It'd be so fun.
Civilisation 6? Sid Meier.
I think Dyson Sphere Program is what you are looking for.
"At this point we can slowly introduce more plant varieties, insects and animals. Not mosquitoes, though'' Best line in this video.
Definetely!
That part made me laugh cause i always hated mosquitoes 😆
Best fucking line!
Plenty of other pollinators around thankfully
YES!
I think the whole “transferring a mirror 11 times the size of the USA to mars” thing is kind of a dealbreaker
It's not 1 mirror. It's thousands. Millions. It wouldn't really be that hard if we had the technology to actually reach a place like Mercury and Titan. He went over it in the Venus video.
Consider that if you can make it really thin it would be easy. Have you ever handled gold leaf? It's so thin it'll genuinely fly through the room if you so much as breathe at it, and still it's just as reflective as a normal mirror. Just mount some metal on a sheet of something like graphene and you'll be fine, and you can launch ridiculous amounts in a single flight.
@@noob19087 that thin, and it practically flies itself to Mars. All we'll need to do is slow it down
@@noob19087 How do you keep them all aligned noob19087? Individual thrusters with 100 years of thruster fuel on board? Nope. This is dumb.
I think it's depressing that the only comment showing an ounce of critical thought gets 15 likes. Praise for the laser-ness of it gets thousands.
I think we should fix our own planet before we moved on to a different one 😅
Terraforming another planet would teach us a massive amount about looking after our own.
Imagine this video didn't exist and someone in a thousand years had to present a presentation to a board explaining why blasting Mars with giant lasers is a fantastic idea.
A lava ocean with giant laser beams shooting behind dark clouds sounds like the final boss area of a video game
It is pretty much the plot of Star Wars: Battlefront 2
@@Cooleatack exactly my thoughts
@@Cooleatack Project Cinder
It sounds like glassing of defeated planets by the Covenant from Halo
Kenshi
This all sounds so hard to do
😲😳😲😳😲
Nice
Excellent
Very nice video
Hi
The forever problem with stuff like this is that it's pretty much just a giant flex. There's no practical reason to do it once you have the technology. You could expend the same effort terraforming Mars to instead build O'neill cylinders and end up with more livable surface area.
I love that he says in every video " *Well, it's complicated* "
I love how lasers have become the answer to so many things since their invention.
move aside, nanomachines
got an issue? shoot a giant laser beam at it!!!
Like mosquitoes.
Tattoo? Laser Wars? Laser Annoying kids? Lasers
@Skynet They would already acknowledge our existence if they could see a deflected laser and not multiple planets being terraformed
It would be so cool if Kurzgesagt created a video game like the ones that were used to show the tereforming of Venus and Mars and the narrator, well, narrates Edit: It would be cool if you have already terraformed Venus, you can use its nitrogen instead of Saturn's moon for mars!
Big problem with this idea: the Martians won't be happy.
"But we need it faster and we have lasers" - honestly, out of context it's such a wonderful quote.
Seems like what walter white would say to jesse
I can agree with that.
i really like the fine detail of choosing NOT to bring mosquitoes to terraformed mars which was pointed out by one of the commenters in the terraforming venus video... it's like kurzgesagt really really cares about the community and it's really wholesome.
I want them to mention my cat in their upcoming videos ..Or else I will revolt on behalf of the cat community
The mosquitoes are left behind to die on Earth.
Mosquitos are vital pollinators for many species tho :( it's only the females of a few species that bite us when they need a little extra protein for their eggs, the rest of the time they drink nectar like the other mosquitos
@@miacorliss1151 frick that we got bees
@@martinacocca4225 the noble skeeto, once again disrespected!! you gotta have more than just bees!! for instance, did you know that midges, another bug that people complain about biting them, are what pollinates chocolate? mosquitos themselves are the pollinators of many orchids
Solarballs was probably inspired by this video to make "How to terraform Mars"
I was wondering if anyone here came from solarballs
Me too!@@objectshowdude4458
They're likely good friends since he was in one of the first Solarball videos
So optimistic! Needed this!
This whole process would make a really good interplanetary factory builder game.
Surviving Mars & Terraforming Mars come close.
Have you heard of Dyson Sphere Program?
I was about to comment the same thing. A game to make this happen in 2 months instead of 10 generations would be worth playing. Like Sims, but you have to make a planet and then sustain life on it
yeah I've been thinking about that ever since the Moon video came out
Haha, ur right!
This video just shows how precious and unique our home is and we should not take it for granted because there is nowhere else to go.
There's always death
Agreed. As a species, we really need to re-dedicate our efforts towards good stewardship of the earth. Protecting and rewilding habitats. Ending mass animal slaughter. Sustaining resources instead of depleting them. Generally, breaking this insane cycle that is the global treadmill of production.
We will have to leave eventually no matter what, so thinking about stuff like this is pretty important for the future
@@MegaClaymore123 We're talking about millions of years here. We could inhabit thousands of Marses by then. Maybe let's try this first and see how it works out, yeah?
@@firewithfire2745 Are you a bot?
I love everything about this. Let's get started!
Impressive work! I love "Terraforming Planets" videos!
The mention of “big laser” is very amusing to me. It’s just so absurd, I love it. It’s rather sad that I won’t see this planet with no mosquitos though
“The sun is a deadly laser”
At some point someone will accidentally introduce mosquitos on mars, and ruin the fun of humans
starkiller base lmao
with such deadly lasers, before terraforming the Mars, we would terraform Earth first into worse than Mars
wonder if it’d be easier (or possible) to just use a lens like a magnifying glass in between mars and the sun to turn the sun into a laser.
I love the idea of having a giant hyper accurate death laser made specifically for killing mosquitoes
Seconded!
Vader thought the same thing. He just had a wider range of what a mosquito is
If we terraformed another planet and someone decided to bring mosquitoes over I'd deterraform it.
Whatever kills those little idiots
@@williamlembke7828 well technically it still killed the mosquito
*Ring ring!* Hold on, let me take this call. Hello? Oh *looks away from the phone.* It's the UAC! They found somethin' on Mars!
I really like how he is explaining ,this video is amazing!
A lot of terraforming featutres in movies and games always fail to mention the lower levels on the food chain as a major aspect of the process. It's awesome to see you highlighting on it.
The only ones who get excited about low level food chain species are biologist, the general public usually only cares about animals they can see.
When I was worldbuilding a subterranean ecosystem without sunlight, it made me appreciate that part of the food chain way more than previously.
Vegans disagree.
@@lw3106 vegans can stop taking food away from my lunch.
There shouldn't be a "food chain". Our proximal goal should be to deinstall the "food chain" here, not to extend the suffering to other planets.
The mosquito being zapped by the giant laser is priceless. I love the humor.
Give them Vampire ahhh annoying bugs what they deserve
@@ilrosol3606 Why Not Wasps 🐝 Hornets 🐝 Flys Or Rats 🐀 Why Treat Mosquitoes 🦟 Differently?.
@@cadejust6777 😅
@@cadejust6777 Because mosquitos are basically parasites. They're only good for being food, and they can spread diseases extremely quickly. Wasps/hornets help pollinate flowers, which is essential and helps a lot in their ecosystems. A lot of flies can also pollinate and get rid of pests that negatively affect plants. Rats are scavengers, they droppings can be fertilizer, and they provide good food for larger predators. Almost every species plays an important part in their ecosystem, mosquitoes do not
@@cadejust6777 Because they Kill us the most yearly.
Elon musk:thanks for the tutorial
lol 😂
how you will fix mars magentfield
7:53 Kuwasgazat said funni wored
Thank you. The entire time I was thinking “Yeah, but what about the magnetic field?” Glad you covered.
Even with a magnetic field generator, you've still got "Jeans escape" where air molecules manage to reach escape velocity and get yeeted to space. Fortunately, that doesn't happen very fast, so we've got about a million years or so before Mars needs more air.
I was asking to myself "But what about gravity?" most of the time, and it wasn't really covered. Wouldn't animals (including humans) have serious issues with their circulatory systems, muscles, and bones? The effects of low or zero gravity on our bodies is pretty well documented, and it's never good.
@@prim16 It's bad when you return to Earth, but what about if you live on Mars?
@@prim16 I assume the process of building the biosphere would involve genetically engineering animals (and potentially the colonists themselves) to do well under low-gravity conditions. Outside of that, you could also enforce a mandatory exercise regimen to avoid bone and muscle atrophy, like how astronauts on the ISS do it.
@Prim I was thinking the same, I guess it depends because the plant and animal life that evolve could naturally incorporate that variable. It would be redwood style canopies instead of pine trees and giraffe-like animals instead of hedgehogs or something. I don't know if gene editing can fix the gravity problem for humans because gravity is physics, not biology. I guess people would just have to go to the gym a lot. They could have a kind of mandatory gym academy where they log in the amount of hours they exercise. Like a kind of gym style union hall.
When it comes to Colonization type videos, No one can beat Kurzgesagt in terms of delivery and visuals. The whole idea of literally changing another planet to make it habitable fascinates me
…except they never discuss the role of nanotech/nanobots, infesting the soul and doing much of the work at unprecedented scale/speed before we ever need to set foot on the planet. They can mine, sequester, break-up, build, etc
@@Cocaines How did you know?.She left me years ago
@@Cocaines I pulled an Uno Reverse card on you XD
"Not mosquitos, though." I love this channel, man.
I love the video game moments in these videos
Feels like we're basically building a new planet in space at this point. Crazy. Really makes you appreciate what we have already on this little blue planet we call home.
It's so easy to take the things you get for free for granted. It's a miracle to be alive, not to struggle for resources, to be loved, to share a culture in the first place.
What could possibly go wrong?! lol I was facepalming at the notion of bottling nitrogen from Saturn's Titan planet and "shoot it" over to Mars. Yeah ok.
@@BillAnt It's not as out there as you might think. There is a company today that's developing technology that amounts to just throwing things into space with a giant spinning arm, and the method is showing significant promise to my understanding.
Obi Wan Kenobi: Use the force, Luke. Use the force.
@WungusBill The nitrogen is to imported from Titan, not Saturn. Titan has gravity lower than our moon. Launching capsules with Spinlaunch or rail accelerator is very feasible. And so is a space elevator.
The composer at Epic Mountain deserves a raise. Love how they reused the same song but gave it it’s own twist to match the new video. The same with Time and Time Remastered
Yes!! I love his music playlist on Spotify! :D
And Nuke the Moon/Moon Crash!
Their track for the Biggest Black Hole in the Universe is true greatness
I thought it was a goofy spin off of Cruelty Squad music
TBH, I thought they were going for 'an homage to Dune 2000/Dune 2', especially with the real time strategy UI elements in the video? Listen to the song 'The Atreides Gain' on the Dune 2000 soundtrack (you can find it here on KZhead), and compare the music of that to this!
This channel is like a funny textbook. It teaches everything and gives a lot of kokes to keep us entertained. Krep up the gteat work
"We wan't to do it quick, and, we have a big laser." best quote
"A big laser makes it easier" Words to live by
The galactic empire approves of this statement
I can't even think of a single problem a big laser can not solve.
Sonnengewehr moment
@@theviniso the math problems involving many watermelons
@@Egerit100 “Bill has 2654 watermelons, he uses his big boy laser to eradicate 1264 of them. How many watermelons does he have now?”
A giant mega-laser of doom, a swarm of solar-catching mirrors, a big f*ing magnet-umbrella and a planet without mosquitoes. I can die happy now, just with the idea of it.
To be fair that's all it will ever be is an idea, these ideas are cool, but assuming we will ever be able to create space mirrors the size of continents, "mass drivers" that shoot things into space and towards planets accurately, space lasers, a giant superconductor ring powered by nuclear reactors that I guess just don't need monitored or maintained? None of this is possible in any foreseeable future, let alone the claimed 60-100 years they are claiming. It will be hundreds of years before we even have the technology to BEGIN thinking about PLANNING any of these things.
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660he problem is being united. A country can't do that. İt needs the whole world. The technology is not the problem. We will evengualy have it. But we wont be able to use it to have a batter planet , or to have anyting better to be honest. We will be using it on each others. Think about it, whit all the technology and power the humans have, the only think that made humans go to the space was to compate whit each other. This kinda project is possible but the People doing it wont be abla to see it, because it whoud take around 200 years to make. For making a new planet, that isn't a big number. But no one will do it. Because men only cares for himself. And 4 generations of man working only for the next genarion is the imposible part. If there is no benefit for them, they wont do sh*t. The funny part is, the reason we need a new planet to beyin whit was because the same man who only cared for themselfs fucked up the world and wont do sh*t about it because the climant change and forests being gone is not their problem, its the new generations problem. The things that are in this video sounds like ist from star trek or something, but we are talking about a 200 years of time. About a 65 years ago we went to space. And thegnology is getting faster and faster. When you think about it like that, it dosen't seem too imposible. But its sad to know, it is inposible. All because of man.
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660sorry if my english was bad, its not my first language
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660 listen closely, “Assuming humanity gets past all its’ struggles” (paraphrased)
@@pcmasterracetechgod5660wrong, 100-200 years is quite doable if we don't set ourselves back/wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war or climate change. You underestimate how rapid technological progress has been in the past 100 years.
Not mosquitoes, though! 😂 I'm glad someone is thinking ahead!
Extremely good, extremely helpful, and extremely useful video.
7:56 "Not mosquitoes though" Imagine a giant laser beam appears in the sky then targets to a single mosquito
Based
MOSQUITOES DELENDA EST
@@mattynek2DESTROY THEM
based laser
We could send just the males since they don't drink blood and they are also pollinators
I can't believe the terraforming Venus video was over a year ago now.
Same.
@@userbanned4 bro just search it up
I’m gonna say the n word
@@SomeAustrianPainter nincompoop
@@SomeAustrianPainter nightlife?
"You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars" Kurzgesagt: "Bet"
I needed this I was going to terraform Mars but I didn't know how this video has been very helpful😂
Man i love how Saturn's moons are always there to help us terraform our Solar System
There so lawful
Ok now this is full on solar smash💀
ENCELADUS!!!
An admirable vision. I very moved by it. Unfortunately, terraforming Mars is a pipedream that will not happen within the next 5000 years.
"You cant shoot a hole into the surface of mars" Kurzgesagt: _Observe_
"the ground is just cooled lava" "lets use our funny super laser and beam a rock on and off and on again" god I love this channel
"Not mosquitoes thought." Thank you... I really really appreciate it. Those things are really annoying, I hope the future generation would be happy living in a mosquitoless life.
Not only annoying, its also the deadliest animal to humans
Just move to California. No mosquitoes.
And 🪰 flys They don't serve any purpose all they do is spread disease
Though*, also completely agree can we use the lasers to obliterate the hell bugs?
@@meismaxif there is mosquitos in Canada I am sure there is some in California
"not mosquitoes though." that lazer was definitely personal
We could terraform Mars in like 60 years. In the video they mentioned how bringing nitrogen from titan would take about 60 years, melting the surface it would take about 50 years and we would need a magnetic ring at the L1 point. So we could bring a fleet of satellites with lasers maybe using Starship from SpaceX. During those 50 years, we could also send in the nitrogen instead of waiting for 50 years before doing the next step. So instead of waiting 110 years, we get both steps done in 60 years. During those 60 years, we could add a magnetic ring at the L1 point. Of course we would still need to add life, but there is a lot of time that could be saved, if we did things simultaneously.
Just goes to show how difficult it is to have a planet like ours - let’s keep it pristine!
But the profits!
Humanity is the problem
I think it's a bit late for pristine, but we can at least try to limit it to "gently used". The common definition of "gently used", anyway.
But money
" he said, knowing full well of the hypocrisy of him saying so, and not two minutes later he threw away his half drunken can of cola into the rubbish bin
I'd start the magnetic shield before introducing the biosphere. It also helps so the atmosphere is not blewn away as much.
That happened over a period of 4 billion years. I think we'll be ok
@@conradrobinson7941Radiation from the sun would still be devastating for life.
@@conradrobinson7941 More precisely, the loss of atmosphere and oceans on prehistoric Mars happened over the course of millions of years. If the terraforming process is to be continued at any sensible, human timescale - tens of thousands of years, even - then we won't have to worry about loss due to solar wind, simply because we'll be adding so much to it, and so quickly comparatively.
@@Kinkajou643 that wasn't their reasoning
@@123890antonioj sure. That happened over a period of millions of years. I think we'll be ok
Watching this makes me quite melancholic, we're on the verge of the most amazing part of human history, and none of us will live to see it.
But like the no mosquito part got me dying 🤣 7:56
By the time we reach this level of technical ability, there will probably be a whole new more efficient method terraforming we havent even thought of with todays technological limitations. Its a fun thought though.
We could technically start on this today. The moment we launch our first orbital mirror solar array. Heck Space X could even do this with the Martian Starlink array if they configure the lasers properly and make a large enough array.
It will be much easier in practice to upload humans, send tiny robots throughout the universe, build computational homes for unimaginably vast civilizations, and perhaps just leave the traditional biosphere to live out its last billion years on Earth as a nature preserve.
It's more efficient to just not live on planets at all. Build a space habitat with your desired climate and move it wherever you want to go.
@@ortho_normal We still don't know what makes humans conscious, we very know very well how to build big lasers and solar arrays. Even if upload is the ultimate solution, it doesn't mean we should put all our eggs in a single basket. Not to mention, that some may not want to upload themselves, but rather "play" IRL on the Hard Mode settings.
@@KRYMauL They cannot, you're just falling for the Marvel effect that Elon Musk is selling you, and thinking humanity is more advanced than it is. Let me reiterate. We need a laser twice as powerful as the best one we have today, and more importantly it must run continuously, not for 0.000,000,000,001 second. We need 10,000,000 square kilometers worth of mirrors to power that laser. We need to get to Titan, set up a factory, and a launching site with mass drivers. We need a huge space station with a current moved in Mars' L1 point. Meanwhile 8% of our rocket launches last year (mostly to Low Earth Orbit, not doing never-before-seen things) failed. We'll probably set foot on Mars in a decade or two, maybe even a small base, but I'd be shocked to see even so much as a Mars city in my lifetime.
Kurzgesagt: * Giving detailed, professional explanations of mars and the myriad of ways it is unsuitable for life * Also Kurzgesagt: This, however, can be solved using the application of a Big Laser.
I'd genuinely love to see what mars sharks would look like
It's strange how perfect the earth is for life thinking of the amount of work it takes to terraform mars
Please make a videogame about terraforming (could be throughout the entire solar system with increasing difficulty per planet). With your style - as perfectly shown in this video - this would look soo good, with a nice UI, achievements, visual progression. Plus it would be powered by all the knowledge you guys have about how something like this could work, so it would not only feel super educational but also scientific, maybe having game modes for both younger and older audiences.
I would pay EA kind of money for such a game if done correctly !
If you haven't already, check out the game astroneer. It's not a terraforming game but a planetary exploration game with indie style graphics.
Terragenesis: space settlers is a good game that does exactly this.
I think them making an evolution/Spore type game would be better imo, but I feel you bro. These animators would be great for some kind of game regardless
@@davidpff4131 Screw EA, go with some independent game company, like the ones that designed Factorio or Dyson Sphere Program
Sometimes, I wish I could live long enough to see these possible futures come true.
The comment I was in search for... thx
We ll definitely be alive to see this son...trust me🤝
just cryo yourself and hope we get better tech to revive you in 100+ years
Only if anti ageing medicine technology becomes real in the next 50 years then maybe
@@manyord7089 it'll take atleast 1k year for mars to become like earth...100 yrs is too less
“Not mosquitoes though” had me dying.
the video game style is amazing👌
I almost want to say Kurzgesagt has it's own cinematic universe. They constantly build upon previous ideas, and this isn't the only video where a previous idea is used to build another one. Thanks for providing us with these amazing videos!
I would love a series based on all their space infrastructure ideas. Sky hooks. Terraforming. Harnessing black hole energy. It'd be better than The Expanse, and that's saying something.
KCU (Kurzgesagt Cinematic Universe)
Other than war, humans never have a goal this far in advance and build their entire infrastructure around the goal. We start by landing machines to make a small city and over the course of centuries, expand from there and our pollution and advancement of technology terraform as a side effect. Terraforming will never be the goal, only a consequence.
@@funveeable you're forgetting that many monuments in our history took centuries to finish.
Tesla CyberTruck on Mars? SpaceX? Elon Musk? Blue Origin? Amazon? Jeff Bezos?
For anyone into the concepts in this video I wholeheartedly recommend reading/listening to the Red Mars trilogy. It’s a clifi story centered around the terraforming (and politics surrounding the ways to do or not do it) set in a narrative with a good cast of characters sent to be the “first hundred”. It’s not flashy, but as hard scifi and clifi goes it’s a masterpiece.
This really needs more thumbs up. I second that recommendation.
thank u , i'll be sure to check that out
Absolutely!
Yes! Especially if you are into space and speculative future/sci-fi things definitely check it out!
Agree! I think everyone that loves scify and terraformation needs to read that.
"Not mosquitoes" that laser strike was personal.
Ever since that Dyson sphere video, I wanted a kurzgesagt-style civilization game. I know this is way too much to ask for though.
These are legitimately my favourite types of videos, just letting the imagination for the future of humanity run wild.
Same here! Gives some happy thoughts in these bleak times/ outlooks. The next minimum 100 years will be rough to put it mildly...
@@thomaskositzki9424 happy?? .. destroying the natural state of Earth makes me unhappy, so why do that to Mars too???
@@KrustyKlown why do you value the “natural state” so much? Like what does that even mean? The “natural state” of the universe is decay.
@@KrustyKlown so we can live there
@@Judo1x Nothing can change Mars's gravity, which is about 1/3 of Earths.
2:40 That's honestly pretty impressive that we already have a laser half as powerful as one needed to melt mars
But it can just run for a trillionnd of a second And we need a consistent stream
We might have one way more poweful considering the military doesnt really want us to know theyre most powerful weapons
@@oai8028Considering the Absolutely ridiculous energy needed to run Eli NP, an even more powerful laser can't be hidden
@@thanos7929remember that this laser is plugged into existing power grids. How much of the time limit is due to the technology used in the laser and how much is due to a power grid that can't sustain insane power outputs?
@@generalcodsworth4417almost zero is based on the power grid. Remember they have massive storage capacitors that actually feed the laser. So grid capacity is almost completely not an issue.
I appreciate they have the concern of not adding mosquitoes there
We need a video explaining what the process of terraforming gas or ice giants like Jupiter or Neptune would involve. I think it would be really interesting, and different considering there's no surface to stand on.
We shouldn't terraform Jupiter considering its magnetic field constantly pulls asteroids and like.. I don't think you can do anything to a planet that's constantly raging storms and extreme pressure
@@kaosunokami if we can terraform planets, we could probably make our own magnetic field by that point.
Are you making land on Jupiter?@@diamondynamite
@evilnaruto9229 yes. First we shoot some giant lasers at it. Then we explode a few nukes. Lastly we crash a couple comets into it and it's basically earth.
"It is difficult, but a big laser makes it a lot easier" This applies to many things other than terraforming mars 🐳 (1:32)
Like childcare!
@@Jensenrobinb No need to care if there is nothing...
@@Jensenrobinb Family Planning!
This applies to many aspects of any good plan to take over the Earth too.
Why is the first thing I though of optics and the first thing other people thought of is violence?
I discovered Kurzgesagt through the Teraforming Venus episode so I was very excited to see this pop up. Videos about these large scale space projects that could be in humanities' future like teraforming and Dyson spheres are my favorite Kurzgesagt content!
Mine too!.. But I discovered them through their Black holes and Fermi paradox videos. Their video on the existence of aliens was awesome
@@Cosmic_Explorerrr Same, my very first was the Fermi paradox video, then I binge-watched the black hole videos, where I eventually subscribed
@Ceju Online I discovered Kurzgesagt a few years ago, I think with the bacteriaphage episode, and thought it was great. However at the time I didn't have time to focus on much of their content afterwards u til a few months ago when I binge watched all of them over a few weeks period of binge watching them. Seeing how they have evolved and improved has been exciting. They started off as a college project with definate talent and have evolved into an incredible talented, passionate, and transparent source of information on a plethora of topics. I recommend watching the any series. There are 4 videos and possible more to come. Enjoy!
@@swiftycortex Thanks a lot, though I subscribed about a year ago and have already binge-watched every video on the channel. It's pretty neat how they've evolved from their past videos
This is all so amazing. It's just mindblowingly ambitious. I hope it becomes reality.
Hmmm... Hope those solarball fans doesnt notice this video... btw i love the part where kurzgesagt says "No mosquitoes though."
Bro it was on my recommended bar on that video
I also like the idea Metroid Prime 3 gave for terraforming. Instead of humans planning everything, you would leave the task to an massive AI that constantly keeps track of the whole planet at once. Basically the planet's literal brain that keeps it stable.
Yup, and the only thing we need to do is train a bounty hunter to wipe the planet from the space pirates. Come to think of it, they also used a giant laser to wipe the Leviathan out. Lasers really are the answer to everything.
An AI wrote this
until it decides that humans are ruining the planet
Thats just the ,,Horizon" series, but on Mars instead of Earth.
Sounds like the precursor to a Star Trek episode.