That would be totally fair.

Venus is already much more habitable for us than Mars is, it would just be in dirigibles, not on the surface.

Eric D Venus is soooo much harder to colonize, how would you maintain blimps permanently?, how would you get fuel?, where would you get water?, how would you avoid its massive tronados and storms?, how would you get sunligth?, how would you dock spaceships and pass suplies?, how would you even land a creed blimp?, don't let Scifi trick you, Venus is one of the worst places to be at

Getting to the outside for maintenance is tricky, that's the one valid point you have, but for the inside, you don't need a pressure suit so you can just patch it from the inside and if you have several (which you would) that makes maintaining the outside a lot easier, you just rig some temporary structure between two so you can make that area breathable while working on it then remove it once the maintenance is done. What do you need fuel for? the plan NASA has means there is 40% more solar power available than on earth's surface (so your other point about sunlight is completely wrong) and dirigibles only need a very small amount of electricity to move around with electric propellers (so you can easily avoid storms). I don't even remember a single sci fi thing that I've seen go to venus, I'm sure there is plenty but nothing I've been exposed to, it's mars that most sci fi goes to and tricks people into thinking is easy. All you have to do is google, "venus dirigible plan" and it takes you to NASA's High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) which counters all of your concerns and of course mentions some you hadn't thought of but it still seems much easier to overcome the challenges there than on the surface of Mars to me.

i realize I'm kinda randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch new series online ?

Never Simple after ICBMs what's next? Inter solar system ballistic missiles? ISSBM?

I'd like to see the movie or read the book. Maybe I'll just do that to aliens in Stellaris. See how they feel about it.

ISSBMs are my new favorite things!

FRASER! YOU PLAYED STELLARIS TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The aliens couldn't pierce our sphere of influence. Just our collection of porn alone would have them converting to humanism in droves.

I totally agree! I thought at first that a joke was coming where Fraser would say that THIS particular episode was made with a blue screen.

I agree too. I mean, if NASA can fake the moon landings, i'm sure Fraser can fake being in the woods. :-)

Yeah, we're still trying to figure out how to use the new camera and lighting.

you could always use explosives... it may not help with the lighting but you will have some awesome footage! especially if you put some gasoline mixed with detergent.... it makes a beautiful fireball! LMFAO

We notice that you're experimenting. I can see your use of lighting improving recently, like using the hair light and eliminating mottling from natural light coming through leaves, etc. If you really want to feel good about where you are no go re-watch "How Long Does it Take to Reach Earth" and remember how far you've come.

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them. :-)

no1youknowz I'll probably be one of the last humans in America with a job because of my career choices. I want a Universal Basic Income to exist for your benefit when your job is given to a robot or an AI.

no1youknowz I get where you're coming from, but please don't presume to condescend and ask me to educate myself. We both enjoy channels like this because we enjoy the pursuit of knowledge and seek to improve our own understanding constantly. All currency is a portable stand-in for goods and services to be rendered at a later date. The only thing a Universal Basic Income does is assert that all people living in a land should have access to a minimum standard of access to goods and services. These goods and services do not belong to governments, but governments do regulate currency, and therefore are responsible to their citizens to distribute these tokens representative of value equitably. The reason I'm for a Universal Basic Income is because without government, people have access to the land around them and it's produces if they choose to take their opportunity and do something with it. When there are three times as many people seeking work as there are job openings (as is the case in my home country, the United States of America) and when there is a government, that government should ensure that its citizens don't starve to death for reasons beyond their own control. When there are fewer job openings than people seeking work, the folks who can't get a job aren't at fault, and we shouldn't treat them that way. In case my statement about UBI being for you seemed offensive, I apologize. It was a statement made from the perspective of statistical truth, but sounds condescending having read it a second time. If you review my citations, you will see that a trend is developing, fueled by technological advancement, where it will soon become impossible to find work no matter how skilled an individual is because a machine will always do the job more effectively. The notable exception in the charts currently is Healthcare and social services, but IBM's Watson is being heavily pushed in this sector, and is already outperforming career doctors in accuracy of diagnoses and quality of research. mobile.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27jobs.html stateofworkingamerica.org/charts/unemployed-and-job-openings-by-industry/ www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-07/if-you-think-your-job-one-cannot-be-automated-youre-rude-awakening

Mitch Crane we humans aren't known for our local decisions,

I mean, it's not like we elect infantile reality TV stars as our national leaders.

Mitch Crane we'll just build a wall between us and mars. sad thing is, it would be about as effective and isn't any less ridiculous. and he's in charge of nukes. *shivers*

I just hope we have brains not to go to war.

Larry Beckham I like how it was put in War of the Worlds, it wouldn't be anymore of a war than an ant going to war with a boot. I doubt we would go to war with the aliens. far too many people would be using their presence to hold others down for their own gain. crabs in a bucket on a global scale.

Hah, we'll make it more clear next time until you people finally believe us.

Fraser Cain I'm not on board with the green screen conspiracy theory but a tree would be funny

They might have a lot to teach us. Sadly, we've seen how this plays out.

Exactly!

Thanks, I'm really glad that people can support what we do, and it beats putting stuff behind a paywall or really invasive advertising.

So many rain days.

That's what we strive for.

Are we just building space ships for tardigrades?

Thanks, welcome to the channel!

We'll be spreading life into the cosmos, whether we like it or not.

+Dev C C wow, that's cool. Was it in a recommended video beside Vsauce?

Fraser Cain yes indeed.

I've spend some time at Titusville too, it really depends on where the rocket launches from. There are some causeways in between from Titusville. But I agree, it's fine too.

Thanks!

Right, so I wonder what that would do to our psychology? Would we have some kind of collective anxiety disorder?

Poor Poincare.

Well, he's not entirely forgotten. The Poincare conjecture, famously proved by Grigori Perlman a few years back, was his. The Poincare group was his work too - it's the basis of how modern physicists define a particle, since with quantum uncertainty being a thing, defining a particle as "pointlike" doesn't work any more. He was a brilliant world-class mathematician, so there are references to him in all sorts of places.

Elfdemon space is just space and time is just a concept

We don't really know.

+Fraser Cain Yeah, that's about the answer I was expecting lol. Thanks for answering though, your videos are great!

Dark dysons, that's an awesome name. :-)

Stargates. I want to walk into one ring, and walk out on another world.

So you're approving hour long questions shows? :-)

Fraser Cain In some cases yes because the topic is so interesting. I realized this may not be practical because of the extra stress and strain it would put on you. I have long had an interest in physics.

Yeah, unfortunately, this scenario has played out in the past.

I'm not sure there is much mass that's been accelerated that much. The occasional cosmic ray particle, but that's about it. Galaxies might be moving thousands of kilometers per second, but that's still a fraction of the speed of light.

Actually, I think I JUST realized what it probably is. It's the microphones. Specifically the windsock, making it so none of the ambient sounds of being outside (wind, leaves rustling, crickets chirping, etc) get through. It's tricking our brains into thinking the background is fake.

We pick and choose our times when we shoot. We actually want cloudy skies, but not rain. And we never go out when there's much wind. But a couple of episodes there was a happy chirping bird that you couldn't miss.

Hiding infrared radiation means that you're holding in heat. So whatever's inside the Dyson sphere will get hotter and hotter until you let it out. If aliens can handle their system being hotter than the Sun, then they can do it.

Thank you for the answer. Now I really feel like I'm talking because of lack of proper education (working on it), but first thing that comes to mind would be managing that heat in a very efficient manner (perhaps on the level unimaginable to us right now), but again I'm only talking about my uneducated guess here:)

Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying them. :-)

I agree this idea shouldn't be discarded based on 'it would leak infra-red'.. Seems possible to me that an advanced civilization could somehow utilize the infra-red energy with everything else.. I think the idea that dark matter = alien light blocking in some fashion is very interesting..

Great point, I should have been more precise. Energy and mass are interchangeable via e=mc2. So really, it's the total mass/energy of the Universe that doesn't change.

Thank you for asking, you saved me the effort. : ) Yes, it's the mass-energy budget that supposedly stays the same. (I'll believe it when I see the final accounting lol.) Weirdly, the Grande Total is supposedly zero.

Thanks a lot!

Expansion is the right term, I think, because the density of the Universe is constantly decreasing.

Fraser Cain I do agree that is technically what is happening, but I think the nomenclature is insufficient and find many still consider expansion and explosion synonymous.

I'd want to look at Alpha Centauri and see if there are planets there.

Here you go, we did a video on this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q6qgbNKBu9Cuk2Q.html

We did an episode all about space elevators here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gK2kpKVmsLO3YX0.html

Not this time, we were really lucky. It's tough to keep the wind noise out of the mic.

Interesting question, I'll tackle this in a future video, I think.

It's easier to make on Mars.

You can go live in Antarctica if you like, it just sucks.

We need to rotate out the greenscreens.

OR...hire a leaf animator. :) Thank you for what you do.

Did I say planets? Well, if Alan Stern and crew's new definition comes through, then moons are planets.

I've been covering space and astronomy news for 18 years.

That moment when one of your favourite science KZfaqrs also became your favourite journalist :) Keep up the good work!

If you don't radiate the heat away, then you just get hotter and hotter. Even if you capture that heat, eventually you need to let it escape.

Yup, that's my feeling too.

We'll do what it takes to make you believe the lie that we shoot outside.

Maybe on April fools?

Sounds like a coincidence to me. Like the size of the Sun and the Moon in the sky from Earth.

We don't know what's actually creating the dark energy. It seems to be a property of space itself

Yup, if a black hole absorbs photons, it gets more massive.

Well, I was talking about the total mass/energy of the Universe. But that's a good point.

You can tell through spectroscopy, by analyzing the chemicals in star's atmosphere. You can see how those chemicals are red shifted and that tells you how fast the star is moving.

We just did a video all about this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7J1e8J5x93Pf2w.html

Doh! Sorry Fraser. So from the equator the rings would look like a thin line right on the equator, but block the view from the poles? Does that mean the rings would be right at the equator? Make sense as it's where the earth spins fastest..?

Immorality? I think we have enough of that now. I thunk you meant Immortality.

Sorry, I did. But immorality in our leadership would be nice. But afraid would compromise our illusion of free will too much.

Ivan Romanov no, we need immoral behavior from an alien perspective to reinvigorate the markets of hedonism. and we'll make the pious pay for it. MAKE IMMORALITY GREAT AGAIN

i like you, you're funny

But what if we can't do anything about it?

Everything is relative. There's no one reference space that you could measure everything from.

Seriously, someone needs to make a movie out of this.

I'd see the movie in theaters, buy the movie, read the book, and get the audiobook... Just like I did with The Martian

It would be mind bending what we could accomplish.

Sure, if they merged together, they'd become a red dwarf.

Once we started interacting, it would probably get messier. But what if they just moved in, and didn't talk to us at all.

Sure, but they're funded by American taxpayers, so that miss the whole point of an organization like NASA. Patents are put up to protect companies to make money off their inventions.

Of course, being absolutely certain that it's empty is the tough part.

The escape velocity of the Moon is 2.38 km/s. Fastest bullet is about 1.37 km/s. So yup, it would come back down. And without the atmosphere, it would come back at the same speed it left at.

It depends on where they landed. Most of Earth is still wilderness, or ocean, so chances are they wouldn't notice. But if they had some kind of orbiter with a high resolution, they'd see our structures. Especially at night.

The billboard would need to be really really huge. But you can imagine some kind of constellation of satellites writing out words. Yikes, that's scary.

That's an interesting idea too. Wouldn't be able to do images with that, but it is something that would be somewhat feasible. Though, I guess they would need to find some way to make it so we can easily distinguish the satellite points from the stars, or make them bright enough to be seen during the day. That could be pretty difficult too.