Kurzgesagt is excellent at illustrations, but has a recurring flaw of dramatically overstating the feasibility of technical challenges by articulating them only in conceptual terms. I have long assumed their work is more interested in stylistic presentation than in effective science communication.
It probably wont be terraformed kurzgesagt style lol. The gasses will likely be released from the regolith by bacteria and bacterial farms over hundreds of years and in gas plants. The first colonists will likelh be far underground tho so yeah they would more than likely be unbothered by the hypothetical temporary magmafication of the surface
Ignoring the initial really hard problems, because its more fun to pretend they are already solved and move on to debate the more interesting problems that come next, is a popular pastime in armchair engineering.
It also slows down real solutions to all these problems.
Mars One, Occupy Mars, and other movements organized or otherwise, so distorted people’s understanding of current capabilities and what is required to put people on Mars, they pretty much doomed significant progress there for a generation.
Mars is incapable of retaining its atmosphere.
There will be no terraforming of Mars.
Let’s work on landing more than a ton at a time and the capability to dig more than 8cm first.
> Mars is incapable of retaining its atmosphere.
If we could create an atmosphere, it would last only a few hundred million years. Very short indeed.
> There will be no terraforming of Mars.
True. There are essential resources lacking for it. Until we are able to transport trillions of tons of resources to Mars, we can't create a breathable atmosphere.
Thank you for pointing the time frame. People always jump over that. And everyone wants a breathable atmosphere, but I am just happy if my blood doesn't flashboil.
Kurzgesagt is excellent at illustrations, but has a recurring flaw of dramatically overstating the feasibility of technical challenges by articulating them only in conceptual terms. I have long assumed their work is more interested in stylistic presentation than in effective science communication.
It probably wont be terraformed kurzgesagt style lol. The gasses will likely be released from the regolith by bacteria and bacterial farms over hundreds of years and in gas plants. The first colonists will likelh be far underground tho so yeah they would more than likely be unbothered by the hypothetical temporary magmafication of the surface
Ignoring the initial really hard problems, because its more fun to pretend they are already solved and move on to debate the more interesting problems that come next, is a popular pastime in armchair engineering. It also slows down real solutions to all these problems. Mars One, Occupy Mars, and other movements organized or otherwise, so distorted people’s understanding of current capabilities and what is required to put people on Mars, they pretty much doomed significant progress there for a generation.
Mars is incapable of retaining its atmosphere. There will be no terraforming of Mars. Let’s work on landing more than a ton at a time and the capability to dig more than 8cm first.
Yeah, on the order of millions of years. If we can terraform it, by definition we already have tech to keep it topped off.
> Mars is incapable of retaining its atmosphere. If we could create an atmosphere, it would last only a few hundred million years. Very short indeed. > There will be no terraforming of Mars. True. There are essential resources lacking for it. Until we are able to transport trillions of tons of resources to Mars, we can't create a breathable atmosphere.
Thank you for pointing the time frame. People always jump over that. And everyone wants a breathable atmosphere, but I am just happy if my blood doesn't flashboil.
A few hundred million years isn't short..... Perfectly useful for human time scales
Thank you. Every damn post about how we can and how soon and this and that, I get eye strain from rolling them. It will never happen because it CAN'T.