Building a lunar base out of Moon dust
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- čas přidán 1. 08. 2024
- Welcome to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Here, engineers are dreaming up new technologies that will help build settlements on the Moon or Mars via NASA’s experimental “Swamp Works” lab. With everyone from NASA to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos looking to send people to the Moon and beyond, the Swamp Works engineers are hard at work figuring out how to help future “space pioneers” actually harvest their own materials from other planets. Verge Science took a spin through the lab and saw some unique prototypes in action.
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What is the first thing you would build on the Moon or Mars?
A wall
It’s definitely will be a WALL
A space elevator
A house on the edge of a crater overlooking the vast flatness of earth
A condo for mother in law :X
They just need a cobblestone generator..
Lama Gaming lava would get too cold, they need a chest dupe glitch
Nahhhh lets just bring a villager to trade stuff, we have enough emeralds
They just need to switch to creative mode
lmao
Guys...Guys! This is simple, we don't have a technology that can make our life to Creative Mode yet. But we can use command blocks by commands! Just need to make a LAN and set it to have commands.
“Someday, humans will travel to the moon and mars.”
I’m sorry, wat?
I agree. First thing I heard in the video was "Someday humans will travel to the moon" and I'm like you, What? Wouldn't the opening line have been better said "Someday humans will return to the moon and travel to mars."?
Humans never travelled to the moon.
It's all fake.
Conspirarcy confrmed :D
NitePHX Yeah, xD. So they are saying it’s fake? Well idk
I think they meant colonize
Came here after watching Kurgesagt's video, about moon's base. Nice to see CZcams recommendations are working out.
The two videos are made for each other
same.
Same!
YES SAME loool
Same! And hey, you know what a nice addition to that series would be? Genetically engineered astronauts...oh wow looks like there's a video just like that on my channel (I am so damn sorry about the shameless self-promotion, but you genuinely might be interested in the video after those two!) 😅
I hope US would fund NASA more
nasa just needs to spend there money more efficiently
true, if they had any money to speak of
NASA get's funded alot more than other space agencies already. It's congress that keeps switching it up on them and slowing down the progress.
Id prefer my taxes not go into funding moon-dust trash buildings.... this is so silly.
yeah give it to military destroy earth yay
"REGOLITH" would make a great Death Metal band name.
Please no
Awesome followup to the Kurgesagt video, two of the best science channels doing one interesting topic. Gold.
You have to love the irony xD
@@MDZPNMD what irony
um... hear about the spacex announcement...?
Add me on Snapchat: Tanner.smith412
Tanner Smith Just do it already
*CAVE JOHNSON STARTS COUGHING*
Exactly!
You're a genius
Yesssss we need P3!
#MAKETHELEMONSCOMBUSTIBLE
I'm so happy rn 😂
Bet all the people who 'bought' acres of the moon from dubious websites are getting a bit edgy.
@Nathan A Yup
HODL
Whoever came up with that business model is an utter genius. 😂
Adam Danilowicz Incredible 😂
@@TommoCarroll utter thief
This is amazing
@therealnightwriter No scientist knows how to manipulate spacetime, but sure Kenedy had it all figured out. Trump has also said a lot of stuff. A lot of which isn't true. Even if the president says something, it doesn't mean it's always true. Also about that speach...
source please
yea amazing hollywood.
Patrick :"We have technology...."
Springsblade GT "I just want you to make it smaller...."
One of the challenges to the equipment is the 300+ degree temperature shift, from night to day.
That's not of the shelf electronics.
@@JohnJohansen2 yeah they will definitely need to think of something to account for that.
Hire a foundry company to design the electrics!
Or just cover it in tinfoil and duct tape to keep it nice and warm
Reporting on space programs with the attitude of a fashion show reporter... Thanks verge... Your staff is is an unlimited source of entertainment.
One way feminazi missle.
This is why we "go to the moon". The innovations created to survive in space helps us develop improvements to live on earth. Imagine using this tech to recycle garbage. Then what was printed, when no longer useful, can be re-recycled to print out something else.
Pressure is the key difference
The concrete made from that might be strong enough to hold a structure on moon but not on earth cause difference in gravity.
sorry to burst your bubble but the trash problem is already resolved. in ct. they burn trash cleanly, so well that they are starting to "mine" old landfills for incinerator fuel. no 200 billion dollar trip to the moon necessary. all nasa employees, imo, need to be tested for crack use. in one hundred years we have done way to much damage to the earth and we still are 100 years away from getting people to live on the moon. by then this planet will be toast. sorry. you take care of the gift you are given before destroying it for the sake of saying we are an advanced race. we are an advanced raxe when we don't let humans die of dehydration and starvation. morals! a word nasa and all its fan base could stand to learn.
@@michael-dm2bv Sorry to burst your bubble but your argument has several gaping holes in it. For one thing, you probably didn't know that the majority of satellites that NASA operates are for Earth observation, ever wonder where all this data about melting icecaps and holes in the ozone layer came from? That's right, NASA. Ever wonder how developing countries monitor and prepare for droughts and famines? That's right, with public data provided by NASA, (Read into the SMAP and Suomi NPP satellites, they're doing amazing stuff up there). Without a space programme we wouldn't know the extent f the damage being done to Earth and would likely not realise till it was too late.
Secondly, you're assuming that Lunar exploration wouldn't be beneficial for Earth. When in actual fact the Moon could be key in combatting climate change at it's root causes, specifically industry and energy. For example there is likely a large amount of Helium-3 (an isotope of Helium not found on Earth) just sitting on the moons surface. What's the big deal about that? Well, Helium-3 would make an amazing fuel for fusion reactors, which (with some development of course) could provide clean energy for the world's growing energy needs. In a similar case, us humans are going to run out of resources on Earth at some point (like rare-earth metals and such), and we will *have to* go elsewhere to find them. The moon would be great for this, in fact, moving all our industry to the moon would have all sorts of benefits! If we can not only mine resources, but manufacture products in space (0G manufacturing opens the door to new materials that cannot be made on Earth) then not only to we get to remove the cause of pollution form the Earth, but we also get new technologies that can keep Earth the way it is!
But isn't this all just hand-wavy promises for a far-off century? Well, no actually. It is much closer than most people think. In particular China has expressed a huge interest in building Lunar bases and have already landed several rovers on the surface to prepare for such missions. There is also a massive commercial interest in the Moon from companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX, (both of which have received government contracts, so we know that they're serious) in going to the moon sustainably with cheaper reusable rockets.
If you are going to try and make a point then it helps to know all the facts, I hope this helped.
Imagine being able to donate recyclable plastic and polymer wastes to spaceflight industries for use in off-planet construction projects.
"Someday humans will travel to the moon-" Again, you forgot to say again.
Swampworks may have one of the most badass logos I've seen!
Isn't there also a research base called Skunkworks?
"This job always requires me to get into weird body suits"
The next-generation of Moon feminazi.
Airhead lady interviewer.
@@jonnyquest1384 How is she a feminazi? what political statement did she say make.
Awesome
If they can speed up the printing to 100lbs per hr then not only vvill it make building bases on the moon feasable but it'll make manufacturing back here on Earth a lot cheaper. Hope this developes like they're projecting .
For any given printing rate, building on Luna will always be easier than on Earth because of reduced gravity and no wind. Also the construction material used on earth is already manufactured in-situ (and thus very economical) and is much stronger than the regolith-polymer concrete, so it's unlikely that construction costs will be reduced on Earth.
I can not imagine the feeling this guy and his colleague have to have. I hope they feel amazing! This is awesome and has such an incredible value for the mission of being and interplanetary species! 👏
Oil:exists on moon
Americans:👁️👄👁️ did someone say *OIL*
The moon: exists
America: its free real estate
America: directs all funding to NASA
Army: well, oof
If oil exists on moon then automatically terrorists are also on the moon🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Moon needs democracy
memey boii If there is a living things like plants anime etc,
Then oil is possible
This is really tremendous work, and I really appreciate all of the work N.A.S.A. ,and Space X are doing. Hopefully we can learn more about the universe especially the Andromeda galaxy.
Excellent video and great ingenuity
It is nice that they let kids come in and do interviews at NASA... it is a great way to reach other kids ...and help them learn about "mushing stuff" together...and making science!
Hope I remain alive to see all this stuff. Thanks for showing want going to happen in future.
Awesome video! Congrats Loren.
Loren is absolutely killing it! Love seeing her space-based videos both here and on the main Verge channel! Do you follow her on Twitter?
Yes, i do follow her.
@@TommoCarroll I respectfully disagree. I think she could better interview Temptation Island/Jersey shore contestants or something like that.
Damn wish there was a video of the inside of skunk works
Enemy Of the State
Love it! Both what they're doing and the video.
Good video, love it. I would love a closer look at the materials, though.
The first thing I would build? More printers! The new colonies will have a new kind of factory, ones that produce anything, but at a much slower pace than production factories designed to make a single thing. We will need a factory that makes most of what is needed. So, after the 100 beds, tables, chairs, and households are printed, it will become a bespoke factory. Colonists would send a file of whatever 3D item was needed, and wait for the notification to come down and get it. Having enough machines to meet colonist demand would be critical.
print printers make mad bank repeat
That moment when you realize aliens do exist. *And its us.*
Yeah...
Illegal aliens
Your manhood is alien and you.
The moment when when no one laughs at your joke
I mean, I guess we'd be aliens on the moon or Mars. We're not aliens on earth cause it's where we're from
@@The_Jovian yeah that's what I meant lol
I haven't really been a NASA fan as much as space x. but these are definitely the things I'm proud to see NASA develop. and it seems NASA excels at developing space and earth tech more than actually going places. It's good to see Bridenstine somewhat acknowledging that and taking advantage of it.
It's starting to feel like "someday we'll live on Mars or moon" like the paradise promise from the movie The Island.
Simply a distant encouraging positive vision of the future while everything disintegrates
That's definitely a soundtrack from Mass Effect!
I was totally thinking the same thing. So happy someone else said it too haha.
I remember reading that moon dust can cause an allergic reaction and make you really sick
No, but the grains are incredibly jagged and sharp so... don't breath it in.
@@temiajuwon8893 Right. Lunar soil has the consistency of ground glass, since there's no water to wear it down and smooth it. Also remember that the solar wind ionizes the soil -- astronauts remarked that it smells like gunpowder.
Thankyou... 😊 🙏
Wow this is really cool, I can't wait till we can live on the Moon.
I can look outside of my window and take a selfie of me holding the Earth (:
We've been to the moon already, wtf do you me "some day"?
''we're going to have to live off the land''
umm... have you seen the moon?
You misunderstood her, but I'm not going to explain it.
Ya not very optimistic.
turning moon soil into glass sounds very interesting, what with focused sunlight ?, glass beads and fibers would be very useful , good idea
Word of the day. Regolith . Cool video
Great video!!
Fantastic as always! Always look forward to Verge Science videos! Have you seen their other stuff?
How much plastic dose it need vs regolith/mars or moon dust?
Enough,weren't you paying attention?
Huge bales of plastic could be shipped there too. Plastic is light so youll get your monies worth from the launch!
This stuff is so cool! Cant wait till were on mars!
Awesome!
It's weird hearing the Vox “worrisome politics” music for a technology showcase video on Verge Science. Voxmedia, you people might want to think about avoiding BGM you've already made associated with another series :)
Apart from that, this is really cool!
nice catch
Heh
well it does kinda sound like mass effect map screen
we don't mind
weeb
We have been saying that we will live on Moon since 1900s. When will that be a possibility? Also only people with good health conditions can go to space
We can. But we need money
100 years isn't that long of a time for a concept to come into implementation. And so what ?
AkATigerAlly But "alot" is not "a lot"
We can do it now its just really expensive.
Things like moon bases don't just pop out of the ground if you wait long enough. We need lots of clever people with lots of funding to make this a reality. NASA is lacking in the second.
Nice idea
One of the best shows on CZcams. This show shows the limits that are constantly being pushed by Humans.
Anyone here wanna make extraterrestrial babies when we move to Luna or Mars? 🤣
Not the first thing that came to my mind, but sure.
Why make geopolymer concrete from local dust when you can quarry 20 ton blocks with a copper chisel 500 miles away?
Rockets have weigh limit... remember they also need to bring (ex: 1yr supply) food supply and materials and that weighs alot
You got be joking
Lol is this a reference to ancient megalithic constructions,?
This is so cool !!!
Great video Loren and co!
WTF?!? Scientists figured out decades ago that above ground complexes on the moon were not practical! The first piece of equipment you would send would be a tunnel boring machine! This regolith printing machine would be handy for fabricating doors etc. Excavation is stronger, faster, cheaper, safer, and can form larger structures with MUCH less effort!
you can't just dig a tunnel through regolith and call it a day. you need materials to support the tunnel with. doors would require much greater precision and would have to be shipped up from Earth. personally, I wonder if a dumber, brute force method of utilizing this material might be more effective than 3D printing.
@@rogercoulombe3613 the whole moon isn't composed entirely of just regolith! You tunnel into the rock and permafrost, then seal the walls with a spray membrane.also, the moon has far less gravity, so less support is needed. Doors don't need great precision if they are constructed with the right method. If they are built like the gates on a mitre lock, air pressure will maintain a seal.
relying on drilling into solid rock would make the colony design far to dependent on local geology. we need construction methods that allow us to build structures were we want them rather than only in locations that we can drill into.
@@rogercoulombe3613 even here on earth we are dependent on suitable locations. You can't easily build on marshland or sand for example. Besides that, the moon is not a big ball of dust! Rock is FAR more common than you may think! If you notice in the video, they even mention the need to prospect for suitable regolith!
@@rogercoulombe3613 good to have an intelligent discussion with you! (Most CZcams debates end up degenerating into petty name calling *sigh*) I'm an old coot who has been interested in this stuff for over 30 years😉. It was generally agreed decades ago that above ground dome structures would be death traps! Slow and difficult to construct, way too many failure points and joins to maintain seals on, exposed to hazards such as meteor strikes, require huge amounts of materials to construct. Teams of NASA scientists concluded that the simplest, strongest, safest and easiest way was to go underground. Under ground it's surprising solid, and large structures can be dug out very quickly with a minimum of materials and energy, and due to the low gravity, amazingly strong. Simply spraying the walls with a sealant to ensure no leak points (a small container covers a very large area!!) Building this structure was the easy part...powering it, growing food, and supplying water was the main problems.
“Someday, humans will travel to the moon and mars”
Every Apollo Mission: “Excuse me, wtf?”
He means colonise
This is awesome to watch!
lol, "moon and mayrs" mayrs is my favorite planet
I would definitely build a lunar or martian *SANDCASTLE*
probably
Lol same
Yes my empire can be complete
“Someday humans will travel to the moon and mars” i swear humans already landed on the moon
dw its so it attracts the trolls who can add it to their repertoire of "factual evidence" the moon landings never happened.
very cool. Science and creativity coming together :)
Excellent
Normal Hydrogen and oxygen combine and give water? Anybody know how cryogenic one can be used for fuel? Why is that ? Pls anybody
Yathu prem en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid-propellant_rocket?wprov=sfti1
You get ice, melt it, use electricity to split it into separate hydrogen & oxygen using electrolysis, and store the two gasses in separate tanks.
You now have rocket fuel :)
Normal (in another word, gaseous) hydrogen and oxygen can be used as fuel, but for orbital rockets you need to have them as liquid, which means they are cryogenic.
Frozen h2o goes from solid to gas faster than solid to liquid, in a dry environment.
@@rubenleal4821, but then it's still H2O, you need it in liquid form to electrolyse it.
No problem with a bit of pressure.
If we faked the moon landing, how do we have the moon dust?
kremit the frog it wouldnt be so hard
lets suppose the moon landing is fake
"moon dust" would just be sand
the only way to prove that it is moon dust would be to show it under the microscope
it should have diffrent shapes of particles than our sand
i' m not someone who believes the theory that the moonlanding is faked or anything. I believe the moon landing is 100% correct but if they would've faked moon landing the moon dust might've just been something like some sort of sand or something idk.
We're on the mars too without stepping out. You can take small portions of dust, stones etc and analyse them and send the data back to earth.
they mentioned its a stimulant not actual moon sand..........
As a space life enthusiast the truth is that this soil is actually a simulant made by humans to make a copy of what the lunar surface actually looks like on earth , and as a matter of fact that much sand from couldn’t be transported to earth that easily as just a rover costs upto a million usd this would have lead to bankruptcy of the company instead rovers are sent they collect sand they have built in scientific instruments leading to some info on what particles or elements the sand is made up of and then scientist here on earth clone it and form a simulant With basically the same properties to do further research...
at 5:30, that's not a podium; it's a lecturn. The podium would be the elevated platform, or stage-like structure. A Dias is similar to a podum, but larger, mostly for multiple people, like for an award ceremony. Hope this helps.
Lol!
This is exciting! Let's go already!
*_CLEFAIRY IS EVOLVING!_*
*_~ accept or not?~_*
I dont get it :(
Nice
Sebastian S - Clefairy evolves into Clefable when holding a Moon Stone. Although, it also is needed for a few other Pokémon evolutions too.
Amen
Why don't we start taking more moon dust and use this material as a way to reduce waste here on earth? It might be a double benefit of reducing trash and having more material for construction projects
Because then we'd have to mine the moon and bring metric megatons of that stuff safely down to earth every year? That's neither economical nor ecological.
very true, atlas not yet. With Elon musk on the brink of figuring out reusable rockets and determining the cost of mining / transportation vs the cost of trying fixing the earth after we reach the point of no return on global warming and waste.I agree with you but with the right technological advancements that seem fairly possible it could happen
Because we'd eventually mine the moon out of existence
Isn't that what were slowly doing to our own planet anyway ?
@@BTDFreak Well most of the matter that is mined stays on Earth
*_This is OUR _**_-MOON-_**_ SWAMP!_*
correction on one term at 5:30. A podium (or dais) is a flat, raised platform. What you're calling a podium (The vertical piece you stand behind) is really a lectern.
This chick doesn't seem to be the right person for an interview like this one
I agree, she seemed really out of place there.
Amo Rise she really doesn't think we went to the moon?
She sounds like an airhed sorority girl, and can't even pronounce the word astronaut.
A feminazi will rule the Moon. I just had a great idea, one way missle.
@Amo Rise I know she said at 00:05 that "Some day humans will travel to the Moon and Mars." but that was most likely badly worded and not meant to be understood as "Humans have not yet been on the Moon."
What if that shovel hit a rock ? , stupid idea ...
Amazing
That dude's job looks out of this world
Waiting for some FE people commenting that those moon dust is the proof that moon landing was faked and human never been there. 😂😂😂
Well obviously moon dust is grated Parmesan.
Massimo O'Kissed and the whole moon is cheese.
I for one love to put grated moon dust on my Spaghetti!
Sheep
@@roar40s spaceship
Soneday humans will travel to the MOON and mars???????? 1969????????
context, bruh - good luck with your question mark addiction
Excellent go a head you will be blessed
wow the pioneers of the Gold Rush?
look how that turned out for the environment?
Luckily the moon has no "environment".
Yea cause we will totally destroy the moons ecosystems....
Oh no we'll destroy the moons ecosystems
Notification squad I guess. Also downvoted this Luke person who spams the "first" and "like this" comments.
Cool! I'm can send T-Series to NASA so they can print building material.
incredible..peace out
Even her acknowledgements have hand gestures. They're quite noticeable.
*Points at moon base*
Thats my dinner plate
Informative
if you have a machine that can scoop out a rectangular area and melt the dirt it collects into a glassy material that can be laid right back into that area, then you have an insulating building foundation.
So we could shoot our carbage into space and use it for building on the moon? Neat!
It's like Factorio on Moon !!
Ah youtube recommendation is doing well today... Thanks verge and youtube
A main construction room may need to be built first and pressurized so as to build other rooms, tunnels, etc. Im guessing moon concrete with fiberglass/epoxy walls for the airlock, and-ir, build it underground.
That's awesome
Almost perfect video!
So what you're saying is that we're going to bring our polymers from Earth? That seems kinda redundant
Tom The Turtle exactly what I thought
It's already up and running. I am new to this but last week I bought a telescope and needed to look for some interesting sites to look at on the moon for beginners. Cut a long story short I stumbled upon a glitch on a lunar map site which enabled much greater magnification and greater focus. After stumbling around I saw something that caught my eye. 4 hours later I had found the moon base, the mine, space port, construction sites, vehicles, equipment, habitats, equipment stored and stuff I have no clue about. These are not ruins and are in use.
Get these Ideas going quick.
Oh my goodness! This is awesome :)
They are actually doing this in Norway too
“It’s angel dust holmes” 🌬
5:20 Autodesk inventor! We use that software at my high school too!
0:53 PRETTY SURE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN PRETTY SURE. Y’all better have that up and running before I get there hang on
Cool! 😀
I would think a geological map of the surface and below could point out minerals that could be utilized.
Were gonna start fucking up other planets too now? Dope.