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To put the whole building underground would mean digging pretty deep, which is hard without some really heavy machinery, and you will probably hit solid rock slab a few cm deep... Covering the building with ice and dirt don't require you to dig deep, only to gather dirt on the surface on a larger area, much more feasible by a small sized loader

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Thank you for making these videos I'm very happy that you do this this is a distraction on my daily life I am currently living in my wife's aunt's backyard with 2 kids looking for a new place to call home. I am a stay-at-home dad, wife works full time. you give me something to smile about thanks

Somewhere in this process some nation or corporation will deploy a thermonuclear rocket, which will cut travel time and open the transit window. We have already built such rockets, so it is just a matter of getting one built in orbit and building a ship around it. Then it would boost back and forth between earth and mars, spending a little time at each end in orbit while it is unloaded and reloaded and people get transferred to and from the surface. Most cargo will be left in orbit and most of the new cargo will already be in orbit. What can't be in orbit or left in orbit is people and other cargos that are sensitive to radiation - this is because of the radiation in space more so than radiation from the thermonuclear rocket.

@ 4:33 I agree with you... Even let's say an "office building" sized outpost??? One small reactor would run that for many years.....

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I'd imagine a base would be made with prefabricated parts & probably in a crater which is already half way to being underground, then later dig into the sides one you've got your initial setup settled. Saves having to dig just to get your first base set up.

Most have this obsession of living on a surface of a planet so a lot of sci-fi seems to focus on this. You just avoid so many problems by just digging holes instead.

Let me correct a few issues he raised: 1) "water won't really be an issue if you build at the poles" Or anywhere, really. Martian regolith is 5-14% water by mass, whereas moist soil on Earth is 40%. So you would only need to freeze dry 1.5-7 times the soil volume depending on where you were to get it up to that level. And this would be easy, as the outside temperature and pressure are already near the correct level. 2) "the soil is alkaline" "there isn't any nitrogen in the soil" those two issues solve each other. Nitric acid can be made by setting off a spark in a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen (nitrogen and CO2 are the main components of the atmosphere) to make Nitrous oxide (whoch also exists in the air in small amounts, probably due to lightning), letting it react with more oxygen to make NO2, and reacting that with water. When that mixes with an alkeline substance, like the soil, it will make nitrate salts. 3) various radiation and low gravity issues. Didn't you start this with the assumption that we had a moon base for support? Both issues would be worse on Luna, so we would likely have at least partially solved both of them by then. 4) "the soil is toxic" Mostly due to perchlorates, which are water soluable and decay into cloride salts and oxygen when baked, thus helping you make some of your initial oxygen. Except for ammonium perclorate, which decays into nitrogen, oxygen, and chlorine, thus also making nitrogen for nitric acid production or atmospherics. 5) "with no communication with the outside world" Do satelites not exist? There is no reason we can't launch a few cubesats in orbit to relay messages to a few more powerful ones that can get messages to Earth. Sure, there is an 8-30 minute delay on the signal getting there, but email is low bandwidth and even sending video might be possible with a good enough signal. So, in conclusion, air, water, and growing crops arent major issues, communications can be handled by a descent satellite, and energy issues can be fixed by nuclear.

@ 8:00 Let's imagine for a second what it would take, to take apart say a full size Excavator to Mars... Like a CAT 336... That thing is hard to move around on earth.... I mean, you'd need it, to build underground.... and you'd need it to basically "cover" your base after you built it.....

5:13 I think the implication is that it is not an actual reactor but a simple RTG. Less maintenance, less moving parts, already proven to work reliably on Mars. With the different gravity the reactor design would need some modifications and fluid dynamics might not be the same as on earth. Then again this is a hypothetical scenario so perhaps a reactor was already designed to be usable in microgravity or mars gravity. Carry on.

As someone who wants to become an astronaut buildong a base on the moon is such an obvious thing we should do first as a pit stop and as a way to sent stuff to mars at lower costs once we get infrastructure set up

Even on Earth, it's often cheaper to bury a small structure rather than construct it underground. The initial phase of tunneling is digging that isn't benefiting your subsurface structure, so the length of tunnel defines the tradeoff where initial cost of angled digging outweighs the cost of digging vertically until the structure becomes large enough. Nobody ever uses a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to bury a storage tank here on earth, they always dig straight down and then bury it. And that's going to be roughly the size of a Mars structure for several generations. There's also the issue of getting equipment to Mars. A TBM is a lot harder to transport in pieces to Mars than a tracked excavator. And with the lower gravity, the work of excavating is lower while the work of digging horizontally is almost the same. The only way it would make sense to tunnel on Mars is if you expand civilization there enough to need a subway, or if you develop high-duration autonomous tunnel boring machines. We're certainly working on the latter, but let's just say the Mars colony is closer to reality right now.

Valles Marineris canyon. Walls on both sides. Dome it over and you're good.

There is a reason that Doom is in its core a Horrorgame and it plays on mars.

Second work shift has ended. Miners, return to barracks.

i feel like hes had "a little over 10 years or experience" for around 10 years now

Yay new video

1:06 we very simply must reach and colinize mar, if we refuse to or fail to, we are doomed. isolation on this sigle planet will inevitably end with our extinction, its a matter of when, not if.

You could just about colonize Mars if you had like an anti-gravity means or something like that to get there. With rockets it is just too much stuff to get there.

It is, because Mars has no dynamo, which means Total Recall all become mutants...and die.

If we actually moved real nuclear tech into space, the 2yr travel window/time goes down to like 6mo on average iirc, because we dont need to worry about transfer windows we can just steam there.

it all takes so long

I don’t think we will colonise Mars. There are plenty of places on earth that are much less hostile to life that we have not inhabited. The Sahara, the bottom of the Atlantic, Antarctica just to name a few. Unless there is something insanely valuable on Mars that requires our presence I don’t think we will ever build cities there. A couple of research stations maybe but not much more than that.

But first we need to crawl by creating a moon base, and orbital industry. Right now, all we have is ISS, a small scientific outpost barely outside the atmosphere. The moon base is probably easier than orbital industries.

We are citizens of Earth ❤🌎🌍🌏❤

I'm really only interested in colonizing planets after we master geoengineering on earth. We haven't even made a successful isolated climate on earth. Both bio domes were failures beyond the use for rudimentary research.

I have seen martion to many times

🌐🌍🌎🌏🗺️ We are Citizens of World, that was a nice flag in the video ❤

We can probably obtain nuclear fuel for reactors from mining asteroids.

Okay, my comments aside, great job on this video. Colonizing America was no picnic.... Trying to go to the North Pole was no picnic.... Lotta people died, trying to do that....

The constant promotion for nuclear on this channel is leaving marks in my brain. Repeated messages work wonders for people who are on the border between liking or disliking.

I agree with their conclusion. It is going to be difficult and there are going to have to be sacrifices made to achieve a colony on Mars, but it will be worth it. I think the first step we need to take though is getting it together here on Earth. We need to start being one unified species and stop with all the nationalism and racism and other bullshit dividing us.

We were really meant to only live on this planet.

How would you even grow anything once the soil was cleaned with poor atmosphere. In my thinking unless you can make a magnetic field then recreate some valid atmosphere doing anything like this on mars is just a waste or time and resources. I think we know more about mars than some spots on earth. I used to like the mars idea but it just seems so incredibly impractical and think resources can be better put to use here.

And that's why we should stay on the earth, and stop dreaming and wasting money on space.

Looks easier to terraform our own planet first!

@ 3:12 We're going to assume there's already a MoonBase, to act as a hub for Mars Missions..... Uhhhh.... Heh heh!!! We're a LONG LONG LONG LONG WAYS from that happening..... At this moment, we can't even visit the INt'l Space Station on our own, we have to pay those fun loving Russians Cab Fare to go.... Which is not ideal... Moonbase.... Hmmm. I daresay, by the time we got our sh&t together, got organized, and got after it???? Tyler will not be alive to see an "Up & running" functional robust Moonbase in his lifetime.... Let alone mine. I doubt my Nephew will see it.... Heh heh heh!!! I love the narrator's casual nonchalant "Let's assume we have a Moonbase".... Heh heh heh heh!!! Sure, why not... While we're at it, let's just assume that "Solex Agitator" thing from the Bond Movie exists & works, and we can pop up a solar panel the size of a US Flag and get 1000 amps of 220 AC off of it..... Heh heh heh!!! And store the excess power in a stable cell also, and use on demand at our leisure, any excess coming off the solar panels.... Why not? That might actually be less far-fetched than a Moonbase.... We can't even build a pipeline from Canada to Baton Rouge without people getting their panties in a twist.... Moonbase??? Don't hold your breath....

After watching all of that my question is; what would be the point if our lives there depends on the function and maintenance of all the equipment we need to survive? If something breaks down we’re doomed

Wrong video lol they just did A new one but it thats not nuclear

I don't see the "benefit for us all". Mars is a wasteland that has nothing to offer.

A Mars base is not just a horrible idea. It's a completely idiotic idea.

Don't forget to clean the airlock with a wet piece of cloth before closing because Mars dust will prevent a good seal.