'Hey Bill Nye, If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?’
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On July 30th, 2016, Cracked.com released a short animation on its CZcams channel explaining why space travel is one of the worst things that can happen to the human body. Though Star Trek calls it the final frontier, it is not a frontier that is begging to be travelled. Space is hard. Unlike going out on a hike, when something goes wrong for an astronaut, it goes deadly wrong. There is no army to send for back up, it is not a wave pool that one can just walk out of. If there’s a crack in the ship, the human body is in for it.
And even if the ship that takes us to space works perfectly, there are other problems. As Cracked points out, "Space will destroy your body." In simplest terms, staying in zero gravity for too long causes many medical problems, from blood collecting behind the eyes, a skeleton that is slowly falling to bits, and a spherical heart. So staying in space for any long-term period isn’t a healthy idea.
But there is the dream of colonizing another planet. Bill Nye, science educator and author, has a few precautions about actually taking on Mars. It could be similar, but many times worse, to the base currently in Antarctica. The cold continent is very hard to live on. Despite the penguins and seals that readily live on the shores, there are huge chunks of it that haven’t had precipitation in a hundred years, it’s just a blank place with no food or water. That would be like living on Mars, but with the singular bonus of having gravity to prevent the Charlie Brown Effect that astronauts deal with. Nye also refers to an upcoming film, called The Space Between Us, which brings up a pretty decent point. If someone were to be born on a planet like Mars, many things could happen to that body, including a heart of a different strength, which would make it difficult to ever come back to Earth. Bill Nye doesn’t see Mars colonization happening, but even by an enthusiastic estimate, we’re way off being able to inhabit the red planet.
Bill Nye's most recent book is Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World.
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BILL NYE:
Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life.
In Seattle Nye began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy, when he won the Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. Nye then quit his day engineering day job and made the transition to a night job as a comedy writer and performer on Seattle’s home-grown ensemble comedy show “Almost Live.” This is where “Bill Nye the Science Guy®” was born. The show appeared before Saturday Night Live and later on Comedy Central, originating at KING-TV, Seattle’s NBC affiliate.
While working on the Science Guy show, Nye won seven national Emmy Awards for writing, performing, and producing. The show won 18 Emmys in five years. In between creating the shows, he wrote five children’s books about science, including his latest title, “Bill Nye’s Great Big Book of Tiny Germs.”
Nye is the host of three currently-running television series. “The 100 Greatest Discoveries” airs on the Science Channel. “The Eyes of Nye” airs on PBS stations across the country.
Bill’s latest project is hosting a show on Planet Green called “Stuff Happens.” It’s about environmentally responsible choices that consumers can make as they go about their day and their shopping. Also, you’ll see Nye in his good-natured rivalry with his neighbor Ed Begley. They compete to see who can save the most energy and produce the smallest carbon footprint. Nye has 4,000 watts of solar power and a solar-boosted hot water system. There’s also the low water use garden and underground watering system. It’s fun for him; he’s an engineer with an energy conservation hobby.
Nye is currently the Executive Director of The Planetary Society, the world’s largest space interest organization.
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TRANSCRIPT:
Victor: Hey Bill. My name is Victor and I’m from Markham, Ontario. The question I have for you this Tuesday pertains to human evolution and space colonization. I understand that humans are constantly evolving to adapt to...
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I want to see Bill Nye and Elon Musk debate this.
I like Elon Musk good intentions, I genuinely think he's a good guy, but he would get destroyed in a debate, even by me. He's too naive and prompt to talk without serious thought consideration.
RadioactiveSand I completely agree. Optimism and good intentions will not get us to Mars without some serious tech/r&d breakthroughs.
RadioactiveSand one is pure science, one can apply science in real life so... I guess the naive one is clear
@@RadioactiveSand Not of you subscribe to Bills leftest thinking. Bill destroyed himself with that gender ignorance.
@@itsmeekers hope you're being sarcastic or joking
"We won't even colonize Mars."
A wild Elon Musk appeared
We won't colonise Mars. You don't need to be a science professor to understand this.
@@speedoflight3395 But Elon Musk is a memelord and is a Crypto GOD! Dogecoin! much invest!
@@speedoflight3395 HOw like why why just explain why you belive this and if not mars we can go to the moon
To sum up this 5 minute video:
'Hey Bill Nye, If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?’
Bill: "We won't even colonize Mars."
He did actually answer the question at the end. When you look at what he said about selection pressure being based on surviving extra exposure to UV waves and cold tolerance, ect., he basically just told you that humans would probably develop a higher UV/cold tolerance and maybe lose cardiovascular strength. Just because he didn't answer directly doesn't mean he didn't answer at all.
You do not like reality?
peter we may have a base on mars, but if we wanted to colonize we'd go for a planet with better odds of survival. Additionally, if we have the tech to colonize (or terraform) mars, why would we not use it to save the earth instead
why not do it both...save earth and colonize
Savage! xD
Yeah but, Matt Damon.
AND Jimmy Kimmel!
Matt Damon has been on many different planets my goodness
Go to the search bar and type in Matt Damon Team America... You can thank me later
Matt Damon...Matt Damon
I'm cackling
So, what you're saying, Bill, is that Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids?
He did mention that, in fact, it's cold as hell
Also there is no one there to raise them if you did.
I'm getting a Elton John vibe from these comments.
+TheMighty Chabunga No dude we're just talking about mars unfortunately I thinks it's gonna be long long time till touchdown brings us again to find the rockets man we currently have just don't have the capabilities to sustain life for long periods.
Bad neighborhood.
my answer:
What's your vector, Victor?
I sure chose the wrong day to quit amphetamines
Rodger, Over.
Surely you cant be serious.
TheSublimeIbanez I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
PeeJayEemus I just wanted to let you know, we're all counting on you.
It's not if we will colonize Mars but when. Bill is right to say It's extremely hard, but to say it's not going to happen is thinking small.
Exactly
indeed
We will end up with destroying ourselves before cracking the level of technology.
Ture I worry about that all the time actually. I hope we can get past this growing pain of destructive technology and resource exhaustion
ozberkoz Possibly
I don't understand how you can say "never" as a scientist, considering the technological leaps we have made in the past. I mean, take the cartoon Jetsons from the 60s and compare it to the technology we have today, or that's just around the corner. Then imagine where well be in another 50 years form now.
that's why we have something called terraforming
I was really surprised Bill didn't mention the possibility of terraforming. Super disappointed.
engineer, he's a science educator...but an engineer.
Engineer's make great science educators, like Kyle on nerdist's "because science", they apply science to real life & make it real. it takes a different mind set.
***** But you're thinking with a mindset in terms of the possibilities and limitations we have today. My point is that fiction is never far from reality. Look into the past at what we considered fiction, and then look at how we made those fictional ideas into everyday tools of today's society. The space between 'never' and 'now', is often only a matter of time.
Darth Armot
That is a good point, but at some point in the distant future we will have to leave this planet.
That is unless we manage to turn it into a massive self-sustaining "ship" that no longer needs a local sun other than the miniature sun we create for it. We are talking about a very large amount of time here. There is really no telling how advanced we can get.
Is actually 'The Space Between Us."
That feeling when you correct Bill Nye :)
Earth won't last forever. At some point humans need to evolve to space or die here. There is no other options in the long term.
Long term.. Let's sort this place out and be able to cheaply, reliably get in and out of space first.
Ultimately we need to go even further beyond just surviving by planet hopping too. But that is so absurdly far in the future that there is no real point in talking about it right now. Even if during our lifetimes we manage to completely remove the cap on our lifespans, the people that are alive today would still likely be dead long before the need arose to seriously discuss something beyond planet hopping.
Well, at least we have several billion years before that happens. unless you're talking about humans actually destroying it.
***** or genetic engineering
Michael Schuster
We actually have around 1billion years until the sun makes the earth uninhabitable. I would bet that we have more than enough time to ensure our survival without needing any specific planet to live on any longer. If we don't do it by then though it is a certainty that we will go extinct. So the clock is running. The sooner we stop killing each other and focus instead on everyone's survival and well-being, the sooner we can ensure that the human race doesn't meet with certain doom.
Hopefully we don't kill ourselves or get wiped out by some other mass extinction event before then.
I am trying to ask Bill a question, but the link in the description isnt working. Is there another way?
This is why I like Bill. Finally someone who knows that anything is possible but not everything. If we get to Mars I will be very, very surprised. Because unlike most people on Earth I realize that very soon most of us on the planet will be fighting for survival. And in that environment missions to Mars aren't very high on the priority list.
First, the question was poorly worded. An astronaut spending a long time in space and having to be carried off of the ship isn't evolution.
Second, I do love how Nye discussed the selective pressures. We won't know how humans would evolve exactly because we don't know what selective pressures would exist, or what mutations and/or genes would be beneficial or detrimental there.
(and just a clarification on the first part, since someone may read too far into it and me saying evolution doesn't happen, I fully accept the theory of evolution)
finally a real scientific question
It’s so funny I used to watch Bill as a kid for the wacky cool science projects. Now I’m so damn deep into the thought of humanity where we are from/going and Bill is still pursuing those answers.
One quick bit of info. When the guy uses space atrophy as an example of evolution, he's wrong. That's not a sign of human bodies evolving, because that would take several, possibly many generations to produce an effect. Muscular atrophy in space is just a physical debilitation. Now, if humans could learn to counteract that long-term through exercise, to where they could survive in space for generations, then you might to see some evolution taking place. The idea of impregnating any animal in space, and carrying the fetus to term in zero gravity is fascinating, and potentially horrifying. I don't know if it's been done, but it would be great to see scientists explain if and any changes that would occur, and what effect it would have on the chances of a successful birth.
Large rotating spacecraft can simulate earth's gravity.
Hey bill I also have a question about human evolution or evolution in general. Which came first the ability to speak or the ability to hear?
Hi Bill, I like the way you address young minds: It's informative, polite, realistic, and illustrates the art of snuffing out dreams. Have you ever considered an end game with this avenue of science? Greenhouse gases, over enormous time frames have the potential to create an atmosphere... The same large periods of time required for evolution. This line of opposition, frankly, could go on for ages. The point, though, is that dreams are bigger than you or I and our limited span of life. Dreams are bigger than ourselves as humans. Further, dreams require money. Keep it real, I agree, but would it hurt to inspire? Think big, big thinker.
I think what the Questioner meant was, if we managed to survive on Mars long enough to survive, how could we potentially evolve? Humans evolved out of Africa... Our story is just Incredible. It makes me wonder... What Else could evolve out of Africa? Gives me the chills..
Errr, Africa is covered in lush greens, vast fresh water lakes and wildlife. To compare it to mars is like comparing your refrigerator to the surface of venus.
Bill Nye describing that movie plot is hilarious
Thanks for mentioning the movie The Space Between Us. :D
Whats his thoughts on the Lunar " sustainable base" that is being planned?...
Hey Bill, Does the state of Michigan get let rainfall because of normal West to East weather patterns over a cooler water body?
To sum up this conversation it was like
Guy: But what if
Bill: It won’t happen
I think since Mars has lower gravity, people would have less muscle tone and lower bone density. Also, since it's dimmer, our eyes would get larger to take in more light.
Bill crushing it ! :)
I wouldn't imagine the colonisation of Mars could happen any time soon, but at some point in the future it may be very possible. There are theories around on how to generate a habitable atmosphere on Mars that seem credible... one basically being that by pumping large amounts of Carbon Dioxide into its atmosphere to eventually create a greenhouse effect to raise the temperature, then much of the gasses that are frozen beneath the surface would be released and contribute further towards generating an atmosphere.
Not to mention the fact that there's already water there...
+Grumpy PugGamer Or a spot for Matt Damon.
HAhaha a greenhouse effect will literally kill the planet. First you need to increase the gravity of mars otherwise all the gases eventuallly would disappear due to low gravity
I would argue that the planet is dead already.
why not just send z global warming to mars? can i get my nobel prize now?
***** OR just build a wall dumbass..
Is terraforming an option? It may take a long time, but is it possible?
In the best case, from what rates of things like bone loss and muscle loss, in astronauts in a yr are, then, even with less prominent rates for colonists on Mars, in the best case scenario different species will be made.
Before I agree with your assertion about Mars, I got to ask about sunlight. Is there enough yearly sunlight to grow produce in Antartica? Is there enough sunlight on Mars to grow produce? The air we can do. We;ve been doing this on a small scale on the ISS for years. Radiation is an issue. But not an immediate one. But can we grow food? That's what we need for a sustained colony.
he's right. how the hell can we live indoors all day long because we can't breathe outside? not possible!
Well hes not even certified to answer the question he's a fucking mechanical engineer not a scientist
@@memoriblewerd I know it's like super necro .... but Bill is not just and engineer. Great engineers were always scientists in some degree. Just look at history of inventions. Most of the time the people who did revolutionary inventions were also the ones who came up with revolutionary ideas. Isn't that what scientists trying to do?
Also, Bill Nye is CEO of Planetary Society. If you only knew who else was in this post before Bill Nye...
bill should be reminded of this qoute - if a Scienst states Maybe then they are always going to be right, but if they state never then they are more likely be wrong
IS there any nearby planet that has resources we would want and could afford to get back and forth? We don't even seem to consider places for like mining minerals or anything, those rocks out there always seem totally useless to us.
If one wants to solve one of the biggest problems with space travel and colonisation, one might consider investing in technology that could create gravity artificially. That kind of technology is a few years away, but I truly believe that if we want to roam the stars, we need to focus on developing that kind of technology rather than sending people out to see what happens etc.
2:10 I would do that if I could build a habitat, EVA suit and I was doing groundbreaking science
It is like deep water diving for the first time, our bodies adapt constantly. Peruvian indians can easily breath thin mountain air, because their bodies did get used to it, but not in a day. The human body is a dynamic, adapting organism. It will eventually get used to low gravity. Maybe it will take several generations, who will tell?
The highest value of colonizing mars does not come from resources, landscape etc. but being multi-planetary species, research, space exploration etc.
The values are different, but it does not mean it's lesser value or less appealing. Conditions may be harsh, but that hasn't stopped people settling to places like scandinavia, alaska etc.
There are A LOT of people who would be happy to go to mars and live there.
how do i send my question??
how does low gravity effect pregnancy and child development? this could make a huuuuge amount of preasure for natural selection to do its work
Mars can also eventually be terra formed.
*****
There's plenty of reason to go to Mars. You can't put all your eggs in one basket. What happens when the next giant meteor hits? Or when the next Super Volcano erupts?
*****
superbug, meteor, volcano, it doesn't matter. Something will threaten us and having a backup population will benefit humanity unless you don't care if humanity continues into the future.
Forget terraforming and planetary colonization. Ships and stations away from gravity wells will be better. By the time we can manage the resource cost of terraforming, it'll just be easier to live in space.
Mars will eventually be terraformed, even if it's a 1000 years from now, but it'll be a tourist trap. It'd be much easier just to keep moving.
*****
I don't see space stations being usable for colonization long term. Parts have to be replaced and repaired constantly. Much more danger in space from even tiny pieces floating around.
Uhohhotdog Gaming
Ha, there eare even plans for generational ship to make interstellar journey's making stations suitable for long term habitation is not all that difficult. The only major hurdle is getting material into position and rail launches from the moon can quite easily address that. Certainly adequate quantities of shielding can be supplied thereby.
One word: Cyborg
Victor, if you haven't yet, read "Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson.
for me i feel like this is one of the best questions
"Why does 1 + 1 equal elephant?"
Ken, excellent question.
The movie Nye mentions is called 'The Space Between Us' not Worlds Between Us. It coming out this year.
Almost half of the video spent on the colony on Mars point, but very little on the actual question; What can we reasonably expect in terms of evolution of humans not living on Earth, since the conditions wherever are just so different.
How does gravity affect the body (pretty well explained, must admit that), how is bone structure affected, lung capacity, size of the brain, average body mass and size? Can we expect to grow a tougher skin from all the stumbling while trying to learn how to deal with the gravity, atmosphere, radiation perhaps?
Huge fan, just got the feeling you missed the bal here a bit...
We have sent rovers to Mars. I want to see what would happen if we sent a tree to Mars with as much water as we can put in our spacecraft and soil. Would we see any (minor) differences?
What if we colonized one of Saterns moons I forget the name of the moon at the moment but isn't there one with water underneath a sheet of ice?
I could easily imagine a hotel on mars. And then you would need supporting staff who would live there a year round.
Bill nye didn't wanna rep his gang, out here saying "westt..... left coast"
The movie is Space between us. :) I thought it was pretty cool.
Bill didn't answer the question right, so I'll answer it
If humans did move to Mars they would have to stay inside because outside is nothing but a cold desert, and Mars only receives 70% of sunlight than Earth does. So humans will become really pale as a trait to receive more vitamin D also there hair isn't getting any damage from the sun so it''ll be dark and thick and not as dry as normal hair, also we won't see well in the dark so they'll have larger eyes to see better. Due to Mars only having 33% of the gravity that Earth has, so humans will become a lot taller, and bones will lose a lot of density since it's unnecessary to have it along with our muscles. The heart will not be working as hard since it doesn't need, so lower heart rate and lower blood pressure, in turn will make humans even more pale, but the cells won't get as much oxygen so we will have to genetically engineer our DNA so our blood has more oxygen in it, and we'll have to do it by making the Lungs work much harder, if this happens a lot of calories will be used by the Lungs, so we will have to make pills and not grow food since there isn't enough space to grow food, and pills will have the proper nutrients needed. I forgot to mention that they will be Vitamin D deficient, So they will be depressed and have anxiety, meaning they will be anti-social.
So If humans go to Mars and evolved, they would look like tall people with pure white skin and raven hair, with big chests and firm guts, but really skinny, and they have large eyes, act anti-social. and have really small jaws, along with being EXTREMELY weak compared to Earthilings. in my opinion, being a martian would be amazing
The movie is called: The Space Between Us.
The movie Bill was mentioning is called The Space Between Us not The World Between Us.
Wow, Bill Nye actually answered the question. He forgot to mention, though, that astronauts' bodies changing in space =/= evolution.
True, but the natural state of offspring over generations changing in space IS evolution. That is, after multiple generations in space, the most recent of a line of astronauts will have adapted to the environment.
Holo Leo
Science fact? Show me the data which demonstrates your "facts". I don't think you can. The uterus is about as close to zero gravity as most people will ever get in their lives. There is nothing significantly different between gestating in or out of a gravity well. For making up science "facts" which you pulled from your nether regions, you are a putz. Congratulations!
Holo Leo There's a big difference between "this thing that I thought of that I want to believe" and "science fact." It would do you well to learn that difference.
Holo Leo Please show evidence that we can't. Anything? Hello? You have none because humans have never developed in space? Unsurprising.
Holo Leo Exactly. You can't, because we've never developed in space.
I'm impressed that was an excellent question
Mars is a fascinating concept, but probably building flying cities on Wenus might be easier and chepaer. And there's air to breathe. The problem is mining would not be possible and the world below those hypothetical cities is pure hell.
Antarctica is a really good idea. Northern Canada as well. Lots of space we could use, need some way to make it comfortable.
We are working on that, give it a few more decades... unfortunately as a side effect, we are turning the areas near the equator into inhospitable desert
spyderxtra777
I think the bigger concern is that any coastal region is going to become aquatic.
+alkafrazin that too
i read this in the voice of mordin solus
Problems: Really bad radiation, low temperatures, really low atomospheric pressure, air is mostly C02, 40% earth gravity. Honestly i can't immediately see how all these issues get resolved to sustain a colony. Conceivably only if people only stay there for a year max. I think with robots we can solve the 1st four problems, but there's nothing you can do about the gravity short of building a giant inclined city
Hey Bill, one of my toenails is much longer than the others. I cut them all at the same time. What is happening to me? I'm afraid and confused. 😕
Are you sure you didn't just miss one when you cut them? I've done that.
The movie Bull is referring to is officially titled The Space Between Us
imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt3922818/
Colonisation of the Mars is a collective evolution of humanity. Growth of civilisation beyond the home world evolves perceptions and ideas and processes we take as a species.
“Go colonize Antarctica.” Check. Mars will likely be a similar, scientific setup at first.
the movie is The Space Between Us!
It's important to note that Bill Nye is generally speaking about the near-future. Exponential technological progress will inevitably lead to humans being able to terraform and colonize Mars should we decide we want to do it.
The movie is titled: "The Space Between Us".
Gee, Bill. I'm gonna jump ahead and speculate that Victor probably knows this, he probably meant something of the sorts of "If we somehow terraform Mars, and were, for some reason, to set colonies there, how do you think the resulting species that would rise from the altogether different environment pressures would look like in, say, a couple dozen millenia or so?".
The movie is called "The Space Between Us". You're welcome. Victor should've asked if it's possible to terraform Mars so **then** maybe it's possible to colonize it.
4:00 creationists WILL quote mine that
The move is called "Space between us"
To manage to survive in a place like Mars the bones and lungs would be the first thing nature would go after to change, a really good science fiction precisely on that subject is The Expanse, I loved it! It shows mankind after colonizing the entire solar system 200 years in the future, really good science there!
Victor, Bill Nye isn't the guy to go to about future human evolution. Two of the most salient people in this field are Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans.
Hey, Bill, international law forbids me from going to inner Antararctica. Your request is not possible for LEGAL reasons.
Not true. Its just to expensive.
I think it is possible that at someponit humans will life on Mars. But Bill Nye is right we won`t be colonizing mars. But Maybe build a Spacestaion on Mars or Bulid some sort of mining complex if we find something there that is worth getting.
Why is it the same cutout of Nye in every thumbnail
Bill nine is stubborn us humans one day soon will be immortal
Ok Bill Nye, nice way to talk around an answer but we are really colonizing Mars. Like people have signed up and are being trained this very minute, so a real answer would have been much more awesome!
I am guessing this was a not-so-sly, sly advertisement for the movie he's talking about.
Yeah, we can send people.. now we just need to keep them alive on the hunk of rock too, when we have a stable base on mars then i will get in line for the colonization of mars train :P
It's far more likely that we'll colonize a different body in our solar system first, like perhaps Europa, which shows better signs of having accessible water. Yes, it's farther away from the sun, but we're experts at the greenhouse effect at this point. It wouldn't be completely out of the question to do Mars eventually, but we'd need the resources of the rest of the solar system, as well as top notch planet-to-planet transportation, to support it.
at times it feels like bill is going on some senior moment style ranting
Damn, Bill, again! Like when the kid asked what if earth would be cubed. Your answer is "Can't be done" but dude, what if?! Try to break some law of physics to embrace others, imagine it like those people do. You can do it Bill, we believe in you
Actually Bill, although I disagree on the notion we wont colonize mars, I think your hypothetical "Antarctic Colonization" would be an excellent testing ground for ideas surrounding the notion of colonization of possible future terraforming. If we can live successfully in the most large inhospitable place on the earth we may have the experience needed to live successfully on a sufficiently similar world. The lack of magnetic field is still a major issue as well, and idk its full implications let alone solutions.
Go Bill! Boo Mars! I hope he's right and nobody actually starts colonizing there. At least not until we have combined it with some of Jupiter's moons and made it comfy to live on.
Isn't the movie actually called The Space Between Us?
This an excellent question. Bill Nye is right, overall, its is a very inhospitable place, and ignoring the enormous amount of work that would have to be done to terraform Mars to get to Earth like, making magnetospheres, adding more chemicals to soils, add soils lol add water, possibly move moons around to get tides for the large water bodies, which might have to have water melted and piped to certain areas to make large enough water bodies comparable to seas on Earth, and making the Biosphere is even more work...That's just a short list on the work that would be needed to make Mars Earth like...but as far as biological occurrences, the gravity on Mars is around 60 % less than Earths...that's major. Even one generation of people living on a gravity like that will have their bones become less dense, and they might even become smaller, or taller, hard to say...and multiple generations of people there will continue to get less dense bones...so if one of them became obese(there are so much developments with robots, there might not be any need for humans to move, at all, if Robotic workers can do everything, so if they are not moving, and diet poorly, this is very likely) and tried to visit earth, they could shatter their bones if they try to walk...So at the very least a few generations of people living on Mars would begin the development of a human, with different heights with less dense bones...So in the case of preserving humans image, then planets with very similar gravity should be found, and more work done to make faster, more efficient methods of travel will be needed to allow for fairly doable traveling...and if its just a case of traveling, then there might even be less total work done, compared to all the work needed to terraform Mars.
I mean its fine that companies like Space X are planning colonies...but anyone who chooses to live there will have children and grandchildren, at the very least, begin to become shorter, with less dense bones...so dwarf humans with less dense bones. its scary none of this is mentioned by all the experts when they discuss the plans...and that should be an important consideration when colonizing a planet...preserving humanity's form.
Bill Nye, please construct the biggest and highest space elevator possible with the current technology available. I truly believe you and a couple of others if you put your mind into it you absolutely can do it, you absolutely should do it. This event will change this era of evolution in the next one, I believe so!!!
mars probably have several unique minerals so i think a mining colony is probably going to happen in the future but colonization with the purpose of staying and living is going to be very far in the future.
Bill, why not mention terra forming and genetic engineering for alternate climates?
That answer sounds so definitive and depressing. Humans are amazing at adapting and surviving, it's sorta our thing. To say that we won't ever be able to overcome such an enormous obstacle just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's a primal feeling to see land and want to find ways to make it ours? But maybe that instinct is enough to drive tech forward to the point where in a few hundred years, those hurdles don't seem so high. Totally respect your opinion, but thinking in absolutes of yes and no can only stifle progress.
He's afraid Republicans will say "We have a Plan[et] B, let's just screw Earth!" if he recognizes that Mars will eventually be inhabited.
Yes, human can colonize other planets, but any civilization no matter how advanced the technology or how rich the society, will want to colonize planets that are easier to make habitable. Why colonize a cold planet that have no magnetosphere like Mars?
The movie is called The Space Between us, not World
I agree with Bill it has to be a science colony but there is potential to become a human colony but not in the near future unless there's a miracle and some Mars scientist is involved in it whatsoever then just maybe.
The movie's called "The Space Between Us", not "Worlds Between Us"
Bill, you forgot the most important part - that he was conflating conditioning and evolution. A person who trains to climb Everest is not evolving, they are conditioning themselves, and (to our current knowledge) their conditioning is not reflected in their offspring.
Genetic Engineering + advanced technology = cybernetic organism
we will be able to live anywhere soon
We would be confined to habitats. I don't think mars has the mass to hold an oxygen rich atmosphere, at any reasonable temperature. because of the escape velocity being so low, due to low gravity, to keep an atmosphere, the temperature would have to be too low, for liquid water lakes. Mars couldn't hold on to nitrogen and oxygen, even if it had a strong magnetic field, at earth like temperatures.
Bill makes a lot of generalizations and speculations for being a scientist. Oh wait, he's an engineer...
And he brings up the important aspect of the colonies. that mating with a Mars colonist and human from earth likely isnt something that can be done, if they live on Mars for a life...generations it will be more prominent...
Has bill never heard of the plan to melt the ice caps, and then create a greenhouse effect? That is their mission.
Well since he's not even qualified to answer the boys questions he probably doesn't even have any idea about it, he's a mechanical engineer
Yeeeeeees, these are the types of questions Bill should be answering! I feel like his insight is completely wasted on questions that can EASILY be answered by doing a quick Google search.
Well, that was an advertisement for the movie that was mentioned.
i cant even find the film in google. someone help me it sounds good and i want to see it but cant find it
It's called "The Space Between Us."
Ya, I suppose if it were a formal marketing campaign, He wouldn't have screwed up the name…. maybe.. marketing people are clever.
No it wasn't. He didn't even say the title right.