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Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars 1
#25630075 - 11/21/18 01:51 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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At an event promoting the new National Geographic Channel’s series “Mars,” scientist and science educator Bill Nye spoke about the Red Planet’s future. While he’s all about the idea that astronauts travel to Mars and explore Mars and possibly even mine Mars, he’s pretty much against the idea that humans could live on Mars. “This whole idea of terraforming Mars,” said Nye, “As respectful as I can be, are you guys high?”
1. We’re already killing our own planet
Bill Nye made remarks this week in an interview this week with USA Today. “We can’t even take care of this planet where we live,” said Nye, “and we’re perfectly suited for it, let alone another planet.” He’s not wrong.
2. Not many people live in Antarctica
“Nobody goes to Antarctica to raise a family,” said Nye. “You don’t go there and build a park, there’s just no such thing.” Scientists visit Antarctica for relatively short periods of time, but no human lives there permanently. That’s mostly because it’s extremely cold. According to the CIA in the USA, in Antarctica the following is true: “[There are] no indigenous inhabitants, but there are both permanent and summer-only staffed research stations.”
And also they get absolutely no cable TV or internet coverage up there – what kind of life is that?
3. Mars is cold
“Nobody’s gonna go settle on Mars and raise a family and have generations of Martians,” said Nye. “It’s not reasonable because it’s so cold.” You’d have to wear protective gear whenever you weren’t inside a protective structure. While parts of Mars can get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C), most of the time the whole planet’s closer to well below zero.
Let’s say you DID somehow, for whatever reason, find reason enough to live on Mars. Whenever you wanted to get from one human-made structure to another, you’d need to wear a space suit and/or use a vehicle something like what we got a test drive in back in 2015 – the Mars rover, aka Space Exploration Vehicle, as seen in the video below.
4. There’s very little water and absolutely no food
“There is hardly any water,” said Nye, “[and] there’s absolutely no food.” That is unless you are Matt Damon in The Martian and you use a little bit of magic to grow the bare minimum amount of potatoes to survive several months, of course.
5. Oxygen is lacking
“And the big thing, I just remind these guys,” said Nye, “There’s nothing to breathe.” For the moment there’s most certainly not enough oxygen on Mars for human beings to breathe. Barring any sort of futuristic not-yet-invented means to terraform Mars with an artificial atmosphere and one massive amount of oxygen, we’re not realistically headed for Mars long-term.
00. But exploration is a must!
“We would send people there to make discoveries. To explore, that’s the big idea,” said Nye. “I want to find evidence of life on another world in my lifetime, so Mars in the next logical place to look.” Let’s do it!
https://www.slashgear.com/mars-human-life-bill-nye-reasons-nasa-national-geographic-20554627/
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: DividedQuantum]
#25632991 - 11/22/18 05:51 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Bill Nye lost all credibility because of his new show. On his old show (1990’s) he says there are two genders, now he says there are more? He sold his soul and looks like an idiot now. All that aside, it’s a no brainer that we can’t live on Mars.
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: JizzMasterZero]
#25640292 - 11/26/18 01:08 PM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Still sounds better than Earth's gonna be in 500 years.
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: DividedQuantum]
#25653655 - 12/03/18 01:23 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Bill doee make some excellent points thou.
Mars is very harsh place. Terraforming will not be easy.
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#25658318 - 12/05/18 05:05 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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We'll get there because we have to!
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: Simonsays]
#25658512 - 12/05/18 08:04 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Definitely.
Could be our last resort especiay if humans keep trashing the planet.
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Re: Bill Nye's 5 reasons we can’t live on Mars [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#25667367 - 12/09/18 08:45 AM (5 years, 5 months ago) |
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Living on Mars would probably start merely as an exploration and science endeavor, but as the operation grew it size it might start to become more and more appealing for people to start colonizing. If/when Earth starts to fall apart from human carelessness, it may be much more appealing to go to Mars.
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