New space age: the race to dominate the moon and mars | Four Corners
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- Space travel has never been so accessible. Entrepreneurial vision teamed with more affordable and reliable technology has resulted in a space revolution that is giving rise to a whole new world of possibilities. But those at the forefront are grappling with everything from the inherent risk of space travel to the management of space junk.
Even more challenging is that nation states including America and China are already staking their claims in this new world with designated Space Forces and a growing militarisation of space. As science fiction becomes science fact, the challenge will be to see if humankind has learned the lessons of life here on earth.
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"it is now cheaper to go to space than to make a movie about going to space", is easily the most inspiring thing i heard the whole year
Movies are so woke that the studios will go broke. Living on the moon is a joke. I'm no flat earther but our bodies have been designed for Earth's gravity and radiation levels - nowhere else. The moon and Mars will have to be the realm of AI machines and robots.
@@anthonywhelan5419 We can engineer radiation protection. It's a challenge but not impossible.
@@anthonywhelan5419 you can still have a base on the moon ran largely by robots and humans on shifts between being on the moon and training to go to the moon. Humans can stay in those conditions before they deteriorate too much from lack of gravity. Astronauts can live in space for more than just over a year. They do lose bone mass that they need to recuperate when back on earth but the moon has more gravity than space. Its not ideal but neither was sending people to work coal mines in the 19th century.
@@lastword8783 It will be much easier to stay in good shape regarding muscle mass and bone density. 1/6th g is way better than microgravity or zero g. Lifting weights is possible on the Moon while on ISS they can only use resistive excercises that depend on elastic forces and inertia, and your body is under load all the time while being on the Moon.
@@FrankyPi yep. Id also like to see how they tackle radiation. I can see a ton of advances in radiation protection technology resulting from this.
21:05 It's great to see the editor added the Mass Effect 2 Galaxy Map Theme on the orbital simulation of satellite positions. That's the sign of a true gamer and a young spirit!
It's also fake CGI, not reality.
Great to see Aussies getting out there!!! :)
But talking about Falcon Heavy while showing footage of a Falcon 9 isn't good communication...
And blowing up prototypes is a part of building them, everyone does it, just SpaceX does it in the open, so McDowell comes across a little naive by lamenting about it...
We cry about our record damaging this planet, the planet is fine, it's the biosphere we've damaged, and that's something no other planet in the solar system has, so industrializing other planets is a great idea, let's move heavy industry off world where realistic...
@Tony Wilson The point is to use those resources found on varies bodies on the production of stations...they need to rotate to 1g....so that means they need to be very large. We don't have to lift that material which is always going to be expensive. I agree, they'll never make refrigerators or cars in space but they can beam down energy which is 100% clean.
@Tony Wilson What about Starship?
Yes, that's right
Exactly, just like the Star Trek thinking, if we gonna go into space ,mars an anywheres else, it is imperative that we adjust our inner thinking as well, again ,like Star Trek thinking, eliminating poverty, money, greed, power struggles, it shud not have to take a global disaster, ma made or otherwise to change our way of thinking, man wants t go to mats, uh uh, we will never survive let alone thrive, while we still are trapped within our old way of thinking, god had Moses lead his people all around in circles in their desert for forty frickin years, not because they was lost w nowhere t go, but it was done that way because the majority of the peoples did nothing but complain about everything, you can’t move forward while still holdin onto past behaviours, mankind must and needs to rise way and far above our older and severely limited and destructive ways of thinking and believing, once we get past that shit and make our level of thinking more higher than we are presently doing , then and only then will we be ready for space living, every other sentient species had to do the same thing, rise above our petty bullcrap way of thinking, then we can rise to the level of space life , just like the Star Trek movies tried to display for us, at present, I’m sorry to say, folks, we ain’t ready for the higher up yet, we still too busy thinking like caveman savages, in fact I will bet that any previous life forms would be better at thinking on those levels than we have ever been including the present, se still have much to learn as a planet species, on our own home planet, other life forms would avoid us for the most part seeing us as way too dangerous to let us go into deep space as yet, they don’t want us starting intergalactic wars just because we react like army ants to any imagined threat that the wind blows our way, we must develop and use much more self control than we have ever imagined, if I was an alien, I would be greatly concerned over the way these humans behave, we shoot first and ask questions too late, and that’s during what we think we are right, on a good day, a bad day is much worse, yes , prepare of course, always pre for the worst, but always, always expect the best, we were created for better and greater things, and our thinking must grow accordingly, even when we do make it to space living, we are still not ready for intergalactic meetings with other life forms, we are too violent, we are too greedy, we would be busy scheming of ways to get that wonderful eye candy from the aliens, by hook or crook, we wouldn’t care, as long as we got it, aliens are not that stupid to fall for that shit, you want proof of this way of destructive thinking, ok, just take a close look around you, we fight over scraps an imaginary shit, we think we can claim what others have as our own, we don’t like to share, it goes on and on, we must grow up, get it, up, beyond our old and selfish ways to succeed in space, it will be along time before we are ready at the rate we are going, but , there is hope for us a species, if we don’t destroy ourselves first, such a shame tho, cuz we are a gifted race, and the aliens are more than curious to see how we will adjust, how we will choose to behave , etc, at the moment, this is all just laughable, shit we even try to sell land plots on the moon to get rich and we ain’t there yet, we could move so much faster with all this, if we would just choose to move our thinking a bit higher up, easier way is always better than the hard w@y, good luck earth
Mass Effect music.
No,, mass effect traveled into the future to this day and took music from this video! I know its true!
No body dominates no body. Space is free for everyone from now on. Just buy and own your personal spaceship. You want to go to space, just pay for launch rocket fuel or space elevator climb. Press buttons on screen panel to select a destination in solar system. AI will do all the work, cruising, slingshots, refueling, descent and landing. Going to space is chartered human right.
Inspiring to hear these excited young people reaching out to become the cutting edge of Technology. Way to go guys. Our future is in good hands. Well done 👍. Cheers from Michael. Australia.
;as.
9:30 "welcome to planet earth, thanks for flying space x." Now that's something from the future
except for radiation and zero gravity, your body dies longer than 6 months without gravity
I think this is a great video. Congratulations to ABC and everyone involved. Space exploration is indeed important, in fact, essential. As Elon Musk put it, we need something to excite us. Go Australia, don’t fret about New Zealand’s efforts, every single country needs to look at the sky and really reach for it. We’ve been sitting on our bottoms for so long that we are starting to believe that what we have down here is all there is so we have to fight each other for our fair share.
Ptopp
Dude Elon never put a spaceship or a person at the moon .. fake launching
As usual, excellent work ABC 4 Corners, thank you👌🏻
Austrailia began their involvement in aerospace in the sixties, during the Apollo Program. Geographically, Australia is very important to aerospace science and exploration.
Space is fake mate
"A new breed of enterpreneur is looking to the star" me looking at stars at night😁😁
Nicely optimistic content. Something very needed in 2021 and 2022.
Just really appreciating the editor who cut in the Mass Effect galaxy map theme tune from 21:05
10:50 the guy looks like the crazy scientist from independence day
Well when the great American president announces it has a propulsion system based on combustion called the “The Super Duper” I have no doubt it will be a success bahahahahaha
@@dmystify1381 soup-a-duper©
zupa dupa(translate to polish lol)
Trump, might be a very smart person, but when he opens his mouth, he dribbles nonsense. Like a kid attempting to read out loud in the classroom.
All these ideas are way out there for me!
Well done & thanks Four Corners ABC. Despite the ever-increasing risks, overall this was thoroughly wholesome and motivating! More like this please.
Forget NASA there’s nothing about NASA that can give anyone confidence apart from knowing that certain governmental angencies will spend ridiculous amounts of money on it.
Great program tonight
I need to set this record straight - Sir Joh was arguing for Australia's involvement in space in the mid-1980's. People of my vintage will remember the proposed Cape York space port which was laughed at by those outside Queensland and ridiculed as a quaint "Sir Joh-ism". But, Joh had the interest from space companies and even flew executives over the Cape to look for sites...then he was removed from power by Mike Ahern. Here we are 30 years later ruing the fact that we've come late into the race. Don't believe me - do some research.
He means that corrupt hillbilly, the dishonorable Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Satellites have gone from being the size of a mini van to the size of a
Residential mailbox. Amazing!!!!!!!
i love your show, We love spacex & we just got our S dual motor fsd while the tri/4? motor fsd cybertruck gets here. i'm all in TSLA & i love all Elon Musk does & will keep doing..we've drove from California to Boca Chica to see the Star Ship & it was so awesome to see it getting built in person!! we have LOTS of SOLAR & backup battery system to charge them both at home
is that Mass Effect's BGM 22:30?
If there's a rotation on Earth there's rotation in Space, if there's balance on Earth there's check and balance in Space, if there's polarization on Earth, there's polarization in Space, the quantum entanglement of string theory of parallel universes but of different sciences and worlds, meaning if we have our world the multiverse have their own worlds. I'm not promoting Space but I'm stating the fact about Space.
I hope the government can partially support Gilmour space (with conditional contracts) and make sure it is an independent company listed on the ASX and is not taken over by a large multinational company from overseas. I however do not see Australia being able to support more than 1 private company. Also contracts should still be competitive but with some preference to the local company. Australia being the size economically it is should be able to access space without needing to get a provider outside the country. Though I would add it is nice if Rocket lab can continue to have operations in NZ (Now officially a US based company) as a secondary choice.
1) risk of solar coronal mass ejections
2) the problem of hypersonic missles is to cope with extreme drag heat
2:21 In 1943 Germany became the first country to send a man made object in space when it sent the V2 rocket 119 miles up and at the same time, while fight so many countries including 3 superpowers.
I love science my favorite subject always fascinate about science respect to all scientists
Science is a method for establishing cause and effect relationships through experimentation,it's not a subject lol
the pyramid on the roof of parliament house aint just there for decoration 😂
The Americans always seeing what other countries are doing as a threat
And I will repost my exact same respose to Isaac Van Rhine, for you:
You could make your comment a little more accurate, by adding "Although, what China and Russia are doing, is mostly a threat."
Just because the Americans love pointing it out, and want to dominate, does not change the fact that the communist states also want to dominate. Nor does it alter the fact that communist states are worse to live in. Nor the fact that if you lived in China, it would be illegal for you to criticize your government.
@@crystaltowers6863 So what exactly, it's their choice to be a communist state and people in china are free to leave that country if they whish so. You people always want to dictate to other people how they should lead their lives.
@@crystaltowers6863 nice to see a footage of American rocket being launched into space when the narrator says, "ever since the first man was sent into space". Mind you the first man in space was a Russian.
It is because of people like this that makes things happen. They think it, pursue it and it happens👩🏫
so cool
Simply, an exciting future. I can't wait to see it unfold.
That's what they said 50 years ago when the last moon landing took place. Guess what?
2/3rd of the world population was not born when the last moon landing happened.
@@Crashed131963 true. Although as you know, we now have thousand fold more processing power in our pockets than what they had power their control systems 50yrs ago.
@@Crashed131963 the irony is that we will need those billions to populate all those other planets in the solar system and to develop it
So excited that we're here for round two of the space race
And round 3 of world war...
@@NickSquids space is the true equalizer. If we all focused on education and the future, we'd be living there already. Can't wait to call myself an earthling 😁
@@kurlozmakara4194 Yeah, we would and it'd be nice. Yet here we are.
@@NickSquids well at least we're grounded in reality right? humanities had so many chances to end itself, and yet here we are 😁 I'm staying hopeful for the future, even if I'm not here to see it!
@@kurlozmakara4194 Aint gonna lie, the US is a bit of a worry.
But me too. Take care (:
Space, the final frontier. A place no man has ever gone before. And never will ! Keep that dream alive and the trillions will continue to roll in.
There are no trillions without a tangible industry manifesting in the short term. Rest assured once Pandora's box is opened there's no going back. It will be opened forever and to all nations capable to take advantage
Good to see Aussies getting out there (space organisation) .. at least in 2020 !
$50 says "Coke" is the first billboard on the moon - Just not sure if it will *blink* like the earth ones.
I want to see a cyber truck driving on the moon!
Either as a 'joke' ad or in reality! :)
No. I think that it will be "Mcdonalds".
I'd say Bezos disagrees with you, crispy.
As long as its not "Pepsi"
@@bogdananderson1472 On the moon, I wonder what they would call the 'quarter pounder'?
The big question that was never asked? How can Australia have an independent satellite system when we don’t have a launch capacity. Thanks to decades of procrastination and penny pinching on both sides of politics even New Zealand beat us to that capability.
No tax credits for space launch company
@@ryurazu ...and most research too, while budget cutting CSIRO.
And Aussies are mean to Kiwis! I hope that you become our actual mates after this pandemic.
Draco Venit No we aren’t.
@@dracovenit9549 indeed and hopefully!
Shipping from Amazon to Mars is gonna be bonkers. Idk if prime will cover that lol.
Estimate delivery time: 6 months*
😂🤣😂
The Rice to Spice.
Mmm. This vid has gotten me hungry.
Curried rice for my dinner, perhaps.
The future looks awesome 👏
It will be
They really need to legislate those communications satilites to be shared over companies. We're gonna cut off or path to space if every company starts putting up 1000's of satilites up there. 2 Of them coming together creates enough debris to take out 20 more and then we just did what we always do when discovering something new. Pollute it till the point its uneable. Space debris is allready a significant issue. Every time we go somewhere we ruin it.
China is testing reusable rockets - their space program is quite ambitious. Its often overlooked
Unfortunately with current rocket tech a rip to mars would be like 3 years of airline food and that’s one of highlights of the journey.
Remember, they said the internet was going to be a waste of time and that its just another novelty like an “etch-a-sketch.” Ha!
A lot of my fellow scientists seem to think flying to the moon and mars will solve our problems and signify 'success' or 'progress'.
what a cumbrained take, lmao
It’s a shame to see people so smart think just because human go into space we as a society will be anymore considered of the planet we land on
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Reagan went as far as proposing Star Wars. The problem lies that it was a super expensive system to create. And is the world to be held hostage to Star Wars?
Wow
Could you imagine aliens listening to our really old radio transmissions, having only finally reached their planet, and just putting bets on how WW2 ends or stuff like that?
@Christina Reynolds The time it takes radio signals to reach far interstellar distances literally takes decades
the economic change on earth will be very impactful will need a world with better leaders
One Good competition among nations at present.
I do appreciate that abc has put a positive spin on Australia's space potential and capability. Unfortunately the abc has shown how backwards we are by focusing on future conflicts in a cold war setting with the usual suspects instead of the development and achievements of all in this new space race
Yeah, well the Kiwis are kicking your arse right now. Better get on with it.
@@tomboard1 with a company that is based in the United states!
Anyone else thinking of You Only Live Twice and Moonraker?
18:00
Don't lie. What you mean is greater capacity on a bandwidth, not speed. NBN will be always be faster (ping/latency) becuase the geolocation between places is smaller. It's basic physics.
Edit: Using the Mass Effect exploration soundtrack 21:35. 😂
4:24 I actually thought my phone was in the opposite orientation
Starving kids in Africa for example will be over the moon knowing they can soon have ultra high speed internet from space to download an apple.
Africa is developing quickly though. Already so many have been lifted out of poverty
The guy in the beginning is right we are exploratory species, also an invasive one. We are like the zerg we just don't know it yet.
I noticed the Mass Effect music in the background and lost all focus.
People that go to the moon must know as NASA does the moon and Mars are already populated, they will get a shock. Nothing is as it seems so we will get to find out what is really there. It is heavily populated now.
Aussie chrisso 👽🕳👽🕳👽🕳👽🕳👽🕳👽
Free Markets are leading us to the heavens.
Though the metaphysical parts of space travel are wonderful.. Money makes the planets go round.
Saturn 5 and all the moon landing machines were build by private companies, just a, reminder
@ungratefulmetalpansy so you don't like the idea of free people trading freeling for resources? You're gonna argue with me on a device made by a free market btw.
@ungratefulmetalpansy and its based on supply and demand. If there isn't a demand... why supply
@ungratefulmetalpansy I'm American. Capitalism is a part of my religion lol. But ya I thought about it and read into that wrong. But ya I feel you there. With just pure economics it would hundreds of years for us to be even multi planetary. There's no demand for it, I'm just saying thousands of years we literally will be amongst the stars, with even just modern technology. From literally just sheer population and energy we will have access too.
@ungratefulmetalpansy though we can "teleport" a few particles at a time already, and I see that transporting whole organisms becoming feasible (not within my lifetime). I don't think many people would want to step through lolol.
My View on the clashing of status personalities is superb for us peoples to examine their haughty deposition. So, let them Rip each Other apart. WE WiLL BE JUDGE
The show could have ended on a positive note. It should have started with the negative and ended it with a positive. It talked about wars which is extremely pathological. The venture of space is meant to end wars not start them.
Hmm world has evolved since Apollo, the new players are going to make there marks , I’m glad Australia is playing a big part in it
I would love to see Australia compete in the space race!
perhaps they need to learn how to compete in the " Human Race " first , as we see their complete failures in every facet during the recent cold/flu virus , such a blunder, those leaders and i cringe to refer to them as that ,need to see some jail cells !!!
Personally, I do not want competition but partnerships with all countries that have the means to travel into space. One day utopia hopefully will come to the earth and all countries will work together to make the earth a better place to live and space an exciting and safe place to travel.
Leave the comments on always
Most times the ABC doesn't want to know that its audience vehemently disagrees with what it's saying, or give them a platform to voice said opinion.
With this Technology Nobodies going Anywhere near Space .
I want this to get going already!! We have wasted 60 already!! A Moonbase and Martian base should have been Science fact!!!
Hopefully the next 60 years sees amazing change and development
with 14 countries or more who can the technological speed everything can be upgraded by 10 percent we must do it has one
24:06 doesn’t the US axis have the same kind weapons too, so why can’t China and Russia have too
Did you guys try to interview the Chinese on this? I get the feeling when the "Chinese" are referred to, they're treated as an antagonist.
Because they are. The new National Socialists.
How else they going to start a new war and sell their shinny new guns and shit. Propaganda war is a business itself.
@@papercrease7308 Communists are the new Jokers in modern day......
At 18 minutes... We went from how wonderful it is to explore space... to the whole reason for getting more things into the space above the Earth... so that they can Hammer the Earth with faster internet. So there it is. More rockets to come... with higher and higher powerful beams of energy that's already causing havoc with our health.
The technology that took men to the moon is little changed right up to todays space flights, it is still a case of a giant firework being set off.
When we hear people saying that private industry has made it cheaper we really should be asking questions, because it is not a case of the materials being cheaper, thats a real misconception, metals have become more expencive not cheaper, what really has happened is by letting the public sector have a go has effectively bought the axe down on all those companies and organizations who were at the time just helping themselves to what was in the till, with little or no control over what was being spent.
Industry cannot run that way as straight away this brings us to a situation where the pennies are actually counted and made to work, rather than create a large number of very rich people who being part of the great industrial complex were doing very nicely.
Although the involvement of private industry has moved things along it is still constricted by the same sientific restraints as were in place then.
It never stops me laughing at the fact everything that NASA was supposed to represent has yet to see the light of day, a nd most of all, all the lies we were told have yet to be put to rest, one sticks out more than any, the question asked by Sir Patrick Moore concerning the stars, after Apollo11 the men were asked the question how much better one could see the stars. At the time all three men firstly looked at each other as if to say whos going to tell the first lie, then one said he could not remember seeing the stars, another one said he never saw any and thevlast guy said they could not see any.
All three were telling one of the most telling lies ever, i say telling because it was the begining of one lie after another.
Today even the average man is aware that you dont spend billions of dollars building a telescope to put into space we you know its not going to work, and in fact the Hubble telescope has sent back millions of photos of the stars in detail, those involved in making the move to mars have been asked publically as to how are tgey going to navigate in space, and the very first answer was that tgey would be able to do so by the stars, so i find it somewhat a question of how much we are still being lied to, plus tge fact that we were lied to in the first place about such an incidental matter by people who really knew better from the get go including a small matter call the Van Allen belt, its size and its effect.
At least with outside companies running todays effort i think that governmental forces will find it a lot harder to keep the truth from the public, orvat least i hope that this is the case, a little more honesty about the past would go a long way to encorage involvement, that is of course if the government can learn from mistakes, which to date they still have to prove wiuld be the case.
On any night seecan see activity around the moon
Space programs are very expensive and take a whole chunk of your country’s budget. More international co-op among govt agencies are needed to make it financially feasible to bring humanity into space
60 mill a day for cartoons and cromakey
A half century ago, this is the same envision as to satilite's in space can do for changing the way you live on earth...of course this was five(5) years before the invention of the first intergrated circuit(IC) chip and the subsequent evolution of electronic's beyond what anybody could imagine. From the first police speed radar in 1971 in Edmond, Oklahoma, where it was first invented and used at, to artificial intelligence(AI) in robots incorporated into the Pentagon military evolution today and in space.
O'K for general viewing but a lot of gaping holes, will leave it at that.
It was actually Apollo 8, coming around from behind the Moon for the very first time on Christmas of 1968, that gave us the photo of the Earth, rising over the Moon, that singlehandedly kicked off the environmental movement.
why does Australia alway go for the technology that is passed it used by date, I guess soon we will get a train that goes 100kph
Wow could you imagine how much space debris these cube sats are gonna create, eventually we won't even be able to go to space 😂
No worries the Japanese will send up a refuge collection service.
If cube sats are lower than 600 kms then usually these satellites will come down within 5-10years.. Even better with a little forward planning a small partial deorbit would dramatically decrease that to a few months with very little cost in fuel.
We can not even fix humanity on the earth.
We need stable countries for all people in the world that economies and tehnology pull them into security.
Scott Morrison is offering $5,000,000 for the person that can find the owner of Reserve Bank of Australia. 02 6271 5111 (9 am to 5 Monday to Friday). competition ends December 30 midnight.
how about an update
I will old gold
I think you're better check with the current residence about that'
Great ... maybe soon we can afford to send a bunch of flat earthers on a one way rocket to commonsense.
It is only a DREAM!
Space is a second law violation
Do people not know that in every moon mission the same rockets put satellites up.
Join the space club, Australia 🇦🇺,,,, soon,,, 😁
Wow, I know Mass Effect fandom is huge (N7 mega fan myself) but not this huge, literally every 3rd video about space exploration have people in the comments hoping we will find Protean ruins on Mars.
Beam us up Scotty
what does that mean????
@Bartô N yes know it well why??
@Bartô N is it???? Beam ? Up Scotty???
@Bartô N all good I just think your Mandela effected like everybody is... Beam me up Scotty was never said....
@Bartô N ok mate your still Mandelad tho hahahaha
The fake space force looks uncannily like star treks symbols lolol
Human are explorers not by choice but its linked to survival, sir
I think moon should be the biggest priority by far!
Less than half a million kilometers to economize time, tinny mass to economize fuel..
Eazy instant comunications to be prompt and dynamic.
We should travel there and back on a daily basis..
Improve the experience, the know how, upgrade the methods and technology journey after journey..
We should build diverse moon bases and orbital stations with specific goals...
Launch tons of raw materials to be processed there and at the same time pratice the "in situ" mining.
By the time we reached a good development there, we would for sure already come up with new and feasable concepts to really do anything worthy on another planet.
Until there i think we should stay with just rovers and orbiters (lots cheaper and SAFER ) and do lots of recon. missions.
We should keep with smaller and cheaper robots..
Increase the number of missions and decrease their complexity.
Don't stop in mars, we should visit and orbit every planet and moon in solar system, spread labs and outposts thus maybe creating a survey web.
One last important thing... we can't do this just for science and exploration...
There is a need for profit, utility..
Money needs to be envolved, this can be done by exploring resources in space like metals and rare gases, tourism and even habitational space due to an overpopulated earth.
Like i said first: moon first guys, whoever could be sustainable there would teach huge things to us here on earth. The moon is the lobby, the entry hall of space.
Any similar opinion??
For context: the journey to New Zealand from the UK took from 75 to 120 days. That is pretty close to the time it takes to get to Mars lol.
17 times faster wawoo thats fast
By 'Space' we are still talking about the low earth orbit which is like your backyard. Regardless of the dramatic advancement in space technology no human has ever traveled beyond 400 mile from the earth to date.
Err, the moon is 400,000 km away.
Dr. Okin?
Human infrastructure is too expensive to start Mars exploration and development with when robots and rovers will do it.
What goes up must come down back to reality
In 50 years the chinese will put 9 dash line in the far side of the moon as they will say that historically they are the ones first to land there.